Summary of The Silver Donkey

The Silver Donkey is about a soldier that has escaped from the war and says that he needs to help his little brother John, that is very sick. John lives across the channel and the soldier needs to find a way to get across, the only problem is, that the soldier is blind and the channel is 240km at the maximum and 40km at the minimum wide. Marcelle and Coco are two little girls that find the soldier asleep next to a tree in the woods. The soldier tells them the situation he is in, he also shows them the silver donkey which is a good luck charm to him. Coco is quite fascinated about this and admires the silver donkey a lot. They bring him food and blankets and try to think of a plan to get him across the channel. They make a promise that they wont tell anyone about him because then he would be forced to go back to war. Marcelle and Coco decide that they are not smart enough to think of a plan, so they ask for help from there older brother Pascal. Pascal thinks of a plan for Fabrice (a older friend) to use his sail boat to sail across the channel. They go ahead with the plan and the soldier arrives safely home to help his brother. Coco goes wondering in the woods and finds the silver donkey buried in the soil she is so happy for him to of passed this onto her.