Children have to know of war

Children have to know of war

Add Kensuke's Kingdom to your watchlistMy 1999 novel Kensuke’s Kingdom was inspired by a story I heard on the radio. A Japanese soldier had hidden himself on an island in the Pacific after the end of the Second World War and was found there nearly 30 years later. He became my Japanese Robinson Crusoe of the 20th century. But I wanted, also, to weave into my island adventure story the times into which I had been born, to set the story in the shad…