by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405281799
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«Kensuke's Kingdom» is the adventure novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Egmont Books in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Michael falls overboard the night before he turns twelve and ends up stranded on a Pacific island. When it seems he cannot survive, he finds food and water beside him, and soon discovers he shares the island with Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier. Their relationship becomes a story of friendship and survival.
This edition, published in 2016, is part of the Egmont Modern Classics collection and includes illustrations by Michael Foreman.
For readers aged 8 to 12, according to the recommended reading age for this edition.
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.
