Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo

At the start, Michael was having a great time with his grandma. He found that it is much easier to talk to his grandma than his parents. He and his grandma was even closer after the death of his grandfather. There are many conversations between the both of them that makes him curious about his grandma's life when she was a child. But no longer his grandma gone travelling but before she go, she promised that she will give him her diary of her childhood. His grandma never broke the promise and he had received his grandma's diary and here it goes.

The diary started at 1943, his grandma, Lily Tregenza lived on a farm in the seaside village of Slapton, she hated learning st school even her teacher just because of the way that she speak english so she thought that she waLys a German spy. Her life was surrounded by the Second world war and her dad was sent to war too. Until one day when the villagers are all told to move out of their homes for the allied soldier to practice landings from the sea for the invasion of France. Soon the whole area was out of bounds as the allied forces prepared to invade France. But Tips, Lily's favourite cat decided to return to her forbidden area. There are no other way to find Tips so Lily decided to enter the danger zone to look for Tips herself.

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