kensuke's kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo.
half a review for a half read book.
So far, it is Michael Morpurgo writing in his characteristic sparse simple style that doesn't seem to do very much apart from telling a very engaging story. There is an over-abundance of clichés, but I get that Morpurgo understands how this reduces the distance between the story and the targeted audience - children, by inducing empathy and relating the familiar.
The story is about a little boy who goes on a grand adventure when his parents decide to spend the rest of their savings to go sailing around the world. I shall spoil the story no more.
It is a short novel, and for large parts, written as a log. As such, you will find topic sentences at the start of every paragraph, and often consecutive paragraphs are consecutive events in the story. That's not to say paragraphs are long, but that the story moves at a great pace.
It's a children's book, but I'm now re-reading it as an adult cause I found it on my shelf. It still retains a wonderful sense of the adventurous, bolted down every so often with real life, bad luck and hardship.
About to carry on reading and get to the meat of the book. In closing, I'll say that Kensuki's Kingdom is a great book, and a must read for those how may have missed it the first time round.
