Goodnight Mister Tom: Michelle Magorian (A Puffin Book)

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a b "Goodnight, Mister Tom" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 4 August 2012. With a later publisher description. I have really enjoyed reading Good night Mr Tom as it make you want to read on. It is really emotional and joyful at the same time. My sons had to read this at school. As I love to read i read this while both of them read it. I have watched the movie a few times with them also.

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It must have been traumatic, leaving behind Mums and Dads, older siblings, their former schools, pets possibly, in fact, everything that was familiar and comforting, and finding themselves in a totally different environment with people who knew nothing of these children’s former lives. my favourite character in this book is Ginny because she decided to take a test that girls didn't usually do. Tom Oakley has become a loner in his village. He tends to be stern and quietly exists with a heavy heart. A small, nervous boy called Willie Beech enters Tom's life and home as an evacuee from war-torn London. Willie soon stirs up Tom's set ways. Over time, Willie flourishes with Tom's sensitive care and Tom finds new purpose in his life. The last weekend of August, the children decide to pay a visit to Spooky Cott, an abandoned cottage rumored to be haunted. There, Will and Zach end up meeting a young man named Geoffrey. Geoffrey has left London after having his left leg amputated and losing one of his ears. He has also lost his fiancee, family, and best friend. Traumatized, he has holed himself up in the old cottage to get away from the world. Geoffrey is an artist and offers to give Will art lessons. His sadness is also lifted when he learns there is a prospect of teaching at the local school. I really liked this book because you don't know what will happen next so its very exiting. The characters in this book are all quite different which makes it not be boring.

I first read it when I was about ten and I was in Year 5, learning about WW2 and the Blitz and evacuees. Seeing as I had read all the books we had to read and I was allowed to go into the library and choose my own book. And this one was the first book I chose. According to CCSU some runners up through 2002 were Commended (from 1955) or Highly Commended (from 1966). There were about 160 commendations of both kinds in 48 years, including three for 1981 (one highly commended).Ms Magorian’s writing feels so comfortable to me; it’s simple and gentle but never ventures into twee-ness (twee-dom?)… fine, it never becomes twee. I have watched the film of goodnight mr.tom and have decided to read the book. I recommend watching the film but if you want to be left on a cliffhanger every night then DEFINITELY read the book. I love wry humor - I love humor that is never outwardly spoken, but you have to find it in the little subtexts - those little nuances that indicate that it is said with a lilt that makes it a humorous tone - blink and you'll miss it. And these little moments of Zach spouting his signature phrase touched my heart at how it added such levity to the seriousness of the scene. And --- and then, my heart broke when Ms. Magorian led us down a path of Zach's fate that I was not prepared for. 🥺🥺 A heartwarming and heartbreaking story. Really enjoyed following William's story of a war evacuee child and being placed with Mr Tom in little Weirwold.