Kensuke's Kingdom

Name: Kensuke's Kingdom
Author: Michael Morpurgo

by Michael Morpurgo

Shipwrecked boy survives on remote island with elderly Japanese man who becomes a father figure

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Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a British author and former Children's Laureate whose more than one hundred and thirty novels address serious historical and emotional subjects with sensitivity. War Horse, his most famous work, was adapted into a play by the National Theatre and a Spielberg film.

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