by Michael Morpurgo · Farshore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405221740
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«Kensuke's Kingdom» is the adventure novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Farshore in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Michael falls overboard from the family yacht during a storm and reaches a remote Pacific island. There he discovers he is not alone: Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, leaves him food and water. Between the two, a friendship based on trust and mutual learning develops.
Illustrated by Michael Foreman and winner of the Children's Book Award; the work was originally published in 1999.
Recommended for young readers aged 8 and up and for those who enjoy stories of survival and friendship.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
