Robinsonnades are among them, generation after generation, of our collective memory. The latter, written with great sensitivity and modesty, really deserves the Witches Award 2001. The reader plunges, from the first lines in the adventure, and he revels in this story that does not focus only on the moments happy and extraordinary experienced by the young hero but also the difficulties of being a man when he is nothing left us, if not an island inhabited by monkeys. Kensuke's Kingdom is simply a very beautiful lesson of life offered to us, disillusioned urban readers. The illustrations and paper are also beautiful.