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Kensuke's Kingdom (Hardcover)
by Michael Morpurgo
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Friendship, Story, Teens |
| Market price: ¥ 198.00
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Kensuke's Kingdom is full of excitement and adventure. It's a marvelous story of faith, courage and friendship. |
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pub. in: March, 2003
ISBN: 0439382025
Pages: 176
Measurements: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00050
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The book is great for 10 upwards. If you like traveling, exploring, playing football, sailing, painting, learning from other people and making things, then this is the book for you. It all started with the arrival of a letter that changed the lives of Michael's Family in turn made the parents lose their jobs. After many harsh months of poverty, the father gets an idea of sailing round the whole world with a sailing boat called "Peggy Sue." The family battles through storms and towering waves but most of the time loves doing fun things onboard. Soon afterwards we find Michael on a tropical island in the Pacific, where we find out that it's inhabited by an old man called Kensuke, a Japanese. They both teach each other new things. Michael teaches Kensuke how to speak English while the other teaches him how to be resourceful. That's not all. At one point, each one had a story to tell. Stories on how they got stranded on the island. This makes it more amusing. We also find cute creatures called orangutan. Well there's too much to tell about the book. If you find this book, buy it, it will be a treasure for your library.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 8
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MICHAEL MORPURGO is one of the country's best-selling writers for children and young people, and is the third person to hold the post of Children's Laureate after Quentin Blake and Anne Fine.
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When Michael's parents lose their jobs, they buy a boat and decide to sail around the world with their son and their beloved dog. It's an ideal trip - until Michael is swept overboard. He's washed up on an island, where he struggles to survive. Then he discovers that he's not alone. His fellow-castaway, Kensuke, keeps his distance at first. But when Michael's life is threatened, he slowly lets the boy into his world. The two teach and learn from each other until, inevitably, they must part ways.
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Grace (MSL quote), Houston, TX
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This book is called Kensuke's Kingdom. I chose this book because it was full of adventure. Kensuke's Kingdom is by Micheal Morpugo. It takes place on an island on July 28th 1898-1899. Kensuke's Kingdom is non-fiction.
The main characters in the beginning of the book are Micheal and Stella, who fell overboard. They awake on a shore of an island that is shaped like peanut. The problem was they were stuck on an island for almost a year. At the end of the book the main characters are Micheal, Stella, and Kensuke. Kensuke is a Japanese guy from World War 2. He was a doctor for World War 2. Kensuke and Michael weren't getting along well. After Michael got stung by a jellyfish, Micheal and Kensuke were getting along. Kensuke taught Michael to paint on seashells.
This book was easy to understand. You should read it to find out if Michael's parents find him or not.
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M. Dooley (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
I'm 44 and do not like reading. I only read a book or two a year, but my sister insisted I look at this one which she had read to my nieces. I was gripped and enthralled from nearly the beginning. What a shame that more adults do not read this kind of literature! What a shame that this book is primarily considered a children's story, when it's clearly for all ages. Of course, it is very simple. Like all things beautiful. Mr. Morpurgo, you have an amazing talent, thank you for sharing it. And unlike the other reviewer, I loved the ending. It was absolutely perfect! |
A kid (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Are you one of those people who like adventure books? If you're not this book can be your big start. When the factory was both Michel's mom and dad works closes, dad decides to buy a boat. The boats name is Peggy Sue. Dad's idea is to go on a trip around the world on the Peggy Sue. At the start of this trip Michel takes notes on every thing he sees. They visit Australia, Africa and many other countries. Unfortunately one night Michel falls overboard. Would he ever get help? Will he sink? Will a shark eat him? Find out by reading Kensuke's Kingdom.
The main characters are Michel, Stella, and Kensuke. Michel is a boy who goes on a trip around the word sailing with his parent and his dog. Stella Michel's dog never abandons him in the whole book. Kensuke is a Japanese person who lives in an island right after his ship sank in World War 2 and thinks his family died in the atomic bomb. Michel Morpurgo the author of this book makes me proud. He uses wonderful language especially when he wrote Kensuke's dialogue. He makes him talk just like a Japanese person would speak English. The end of the book makes you like Kensuke more than everyone else. The characters are always surprising you in this book. There is no way any page of this book will be boring. Adventure doesn't have to be your favorite genre to like this book. I recommend this text to every one who likes books that keep you at the edge of your chair and then make you cry of happiness, joy or even sadness. |
A kid (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The book I have chosen to review is Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This book is an adventure book; about a boy aged 11 called Michael whose mum and dad sail around the world. In the middle of the journey Michael falls off the "Peggy Sue" (the name of the boat.). He lands on an island but he can't find any signs of Civilization. He begins to get hungry and thirsty and goes to sleep to die. He wakes up and mysteriously there is food and drink .Michael wonders who gave him this food .he lights a fire but an old man comes and puts it out. This man is called Kensuke, Kensuke and Michael don't get along very well. Michael is getting bitten by mosquitoes and his way of soothing them was to bathe in the sea. Kensuke came and told him that he could not bathe in the sea. One day his bites hurt him so much that he goes in the sea anyway, he gets stung by a deadly jellyfish. Kensuke rescues him and heals his stings, and then Kensuke and Mica (what Kensuke calls Michael) became friends and do everything together. Michael still continues to miss his parents. One day a ship comes Michael thinks it may rescue him but actually it is "The Killer Men" coming to shoot the orange-tang. Kensuke hated these men!. A few days later another ship comes, it was the "Peggy Sue". The main Characters in this book are Kensuke and Michael: Kensuke is an old sailor from Japan .He was the only survivor when his ship was bombed. He found an island and lived there. He did not return to Nagasaki, Japan (home) because he thought his wife and son had been killed in an atomic bomb. Michael is an 11 year old boy who enjoys playing football. Aboard the "Peggy Sue” he is the runner. Stella is a black and white dog, who is Michael's companion. Michael is the narrator in this book. This book is written in English and occasionally there are some Japanese words e.g.: Abunai (meaning danger).In this book there is not much dialogue or humor. There is quite a lot of description in this book, most of it is brought over by Kensuke's and Michael's feelings eg: "He cooked over a small fire which smoked continuously at the back of the cave, the smoke rising through a small cleft in the rocks high above-a possible reason, I thought, why there were no mosquitoes to bother me.". This book moves quickly and is divided into 10 chapters. At the end or beginning of a chapter there is an illustration, the illustrations are done by Michael Foreman. I think you learn from this book what life would be like to be stranded on a tropical island. I think this book is griping, the book ends a bit into the air and I think to could maybe have a sequel to it. I would recommend this book to people aged 11+, and people who like an adventurous fairytale/ real life book. |
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