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 mosquitos 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, 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 orang-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 eg: Abunai (meaning danger).In tis book there is not much dialogue or humour. 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 int 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.