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The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is partly narrated by twelve year old Lily. It recounts the diary she kept when her little village of Slapton had to evacuate in 1943, in order for soldiers to prepare for the D-day landings. She makes friends with two young American soldiers who offer to help her find Tips, her wandering cat. Lily fears she is lost in the village and ventures through the barbed wire to find her.
Sixty years later, Michael is reading his Grandma Lily's dairy and learns as the reader learns, how World War Two affected a small village previously untouched by the war.
This story grips the reader from the first page. Lily's narrative voice is utterly convincing as a young girl's innocent perspective on the preparations for an event the world will never forget. In this respect, the novel is very successful at sensitively approaching themes of war and educating young readers about a time that should never be forgotten. It vividly captures the mood of the era and echoes the innocent voice of Private Peaceful.
Readers of all ages will thoroughly enjoy Michael Morpurgo's latest absorbing story.
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