<Li> William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), is about a planeful of evacuating children who are shot down over a tropical island . </Li> <Li> Michael Bond's beloved children's book character, Paddington Bear (1958), is an anthropomorphised orphan bear, who--having stowed away from "Darkest Peru"--is found by a family at Paddington railway station in London, sitting on his suitcase with a note attached to his coat that reads, "Please look after this bear . Thank you ." Bond has said that his memories of newsreels showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during WWII, with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases, prompted him to do the same for Paddington . </Li> <Li> Nina Bawden's novel, Carrie's War (1973), is about Carrie and Nick, who encounter different religions when they are evacuated to Wales . </Li> <Li> Noel Streatfeild's novel, When the Sirens Wailed (1974), is about three evacuees and covers issues like rations for evacuees, relationship between evacuees and townspeople, and the problems encountered by those who stayed behind . </Li>

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