The book offers a story about family, pets, animals, the sea and its numerous creatures, an island nestling a forest and its mysterious beings an old man in his world building it to a kingdom of his own alongwith the orangutans and the gibbons men and animals living together separations and wars.
Full of adventure, full of Robinson Crusoe vibes.
But heck, no (again!) I enjoyed it for what it is. Being a children's book, I thought I would love it for the innocence in the writing and the illustrations. Do I regret it? Heck, no! I am so glad it's happening. Almost every book I picked up to read this week is making me cry. Every year he and his family spend time in the Scilly Isles, the setting for three of his books. He is also a father and grandfather, so children have always played a large part in his life. He was knighted in the 2018 for his services to literature and charity. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2004. In 2003, he was advanced to an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1999 this work was publicly recognised when he and his wife were invested a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to youth. They have three farms in Devon, Wales and Gloucestershire, open to inner city school children who come to stay and work with the animals. He left teaching after ten years in order to set up 'Farms for City Children' with his wife. After a brief and unsuccessful spell in the army, he took up teaching and started to write. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1943, he was evacuated to Cumberland during the last years of the Second World War, then returned to London, moving later to Essex. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. Morpurgo here spins a yarn which gently captures the adventurous elements one would expect from a desert-island tale, but the real strength lies in the poignant and subtle observations of friendship, trust and, ultimately, humanity.īeautifully illustrated by Michael Foreman, Kensuke's Kingdom is a stylish, deceptively simple and magical book that will effortlessly capture the heart and imagination of anyone who reads it, ensuring that Morpurgo continues to stand tall amid the ranks of classic children's authors. Following a close-run battle between life and death after being stung by a poisonous jelly fish, the mysterious someone-Kensuke-allows Michael into his world and they become friends, teaching and learning from each other, until the day of separation becomes inevitable. But he soon realises there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive. When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own.
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