The Children of the New Forest

Title: The children of the new forest

Author: Captain Marryat

Retold by: Rowena Akinyemi

Illustrated by: Gwen Tourret

Level: 2

Summary:

In England 1647, the king was in prison and the cromwell's man (soldiers) were looking for his. The four Beverly children were hide in the new forest. They didn't have no food, no money, no house, nothing, because the cromwell's man burnt them house and kill them parents. But they had a real friend: the old Jacob Armstrage. He helped the four Beverly children, they must learn to live of the land, to hunt for meat...
One day, Jacob Armstrage are died and the children were alone in the forest. They found a family who helped them and the soldiers didn't find the children.
The old brother married with the daughter the family who helped them and everybody lived happy!!