ISBN-9780140372335. SOFT COVER.PRIOR OWNER NAMES ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE.pages-429
This is a children's novel .Set during World War II, it features a boy abused at home in London who is evacuated to the country at the outbreak of the war. In the care of Mister Tom, an elderly recluse, he experiences a new life of loving and care.Mister Tom won the annual once-or-lifetime Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and was also a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians.
The novel has been adapted as a stage musical and as the film Goodnight Mister Tom (1998). In 2003, it was listed at #49 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The most recent theatrical adaptation, Goodnight Mister Tom, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.