children's novel Quotes

Kensuke’s Kingdom is a children’s novel in which a young man named Michael tells the story of an adventure he had ten years earlier. Michael and his parents were sailing around the world when a fierce storm swept Michael overboard, and he was left marooned on a desert island with no one for company except his dog, Stella Artois, and a mysterious old man who refused to let him leave.

“After Will forces her to play a game of ‘Blind Man’s Buff’, a game she hates, she gets attacked by bats and Violet resolves to never let Will order her about again.”

“Their teacher encourages the class to find out for themselves. The children set out to bring the storks back. They have to overcome many obstacles. ”

“They discovered that the roofs on the village’s homes are pitched so steeply that the storks cannot find space to nest on the sharp ridges, and placing a wagon wheel on each roof ridge would give storks a place to nest. ”

“It is a contemporary adventure story set on a fictional island in the English Channel during World War II and eventually during a German occupation.”

“The novel is set during the summer holidays early in the Second World War. The Templetons are English residents on the fictional island of Clerinel in the English Channel.”

″ Grover’s own dark passage involves the brutal slaying of a cock turkey. . . but there are lighter moments (his father blindly calls him “impervious”) like his determination to teach the alphabet to unflappable housekeeper Rose.”

“The two youngest, ten-year-old Janey and five-year-old Rufus, are the focus of these stories. When the book opens, Janey watches as a strange man nails a For Sale sign on their house.”

“They have lived there since shortly after her father died, and Janey cannot imagine living anywhere else. Mama tells the children not to worry about it until it sells.”

“His troops use unorthodox fighting methods, such as fighting naked to prevent damage to their clothes, having girls sew their clothes when they are damaged, among other things.”

″... and they are forced to return home, where they are sure to get a beating from their parents.”

“However, the circus train blocks the track so they decide to walk the short distance to their home but they discover that their black cat Snoop is missing along with a silver cup that was jolted out of their luggage in the sudden stop.”

“However, they do find that they have a new companion in a white shaggy dog who will not leave them.”