![]() ![]() Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and rightly hailed as a true classic of children's literature, Goodnight Mister Tom is a beautifully told, deeply moving story about the power of friendship, kindness, hope - and love. Neither he nor Willie could ever have predicted the journey they will go on together - nor the unbreakable bond that will be formed. Brought up in terrible poverty, Willie is terribly shy, and totally unprepared for village life - but the gruff-but-gentle 'Mister Tom' quickly takes him under his wing. When eight-year-old Willie Beech first arrives on Tom Oakley's doorstep, neither are quite sure what to make of each another. ![]() With World War Two raging all around, young children are being sent from their homes in the city to the countryside for safety. He was quite unprepared for this timid, sickly little specimen. 'Ungrateful' and 'wild' were the adjectives he had heard used, or just plain 'homesick'. ![]() The tales he had heard about evacuees didn't seem to fit Willie. T om tucked a blanket round him, drew up a chair by the fire and watched Willie fall asleep. Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. ![]()
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