LoveReading4Kids Says
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Deep in the woods, in a crooked house full of stairs, a young boy is kept prisoner by his uncle. He cannot meet other children, or have any friends. He holds the key to a secret.
Meanwhile, in a quiet village, Frans the schoolteacher invents incredible stories of perilous deeds, shipwrecks, desert islands, and haunted castles to entertain his pupils, in which he is the hero. Then one stormy evening, a mysterious letter blows onto his doormat, summoning him to a meeting.
Suddenly, Frans is on a real-life mission, one in which he will encounter magicians, secret passages, conspiracies, hidden treasure, a black cat with green eyes and a sealed parchment which predicts the future.
He will learn the secret of the Seven Ways.
He will find seven allies. And he will make a fearsome enemy. The adventure has begun...
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The Song of Seven Synopsis
Gert-Jan is being kept prisoner and although the hidden treasure rightfully belongs to him, his uncle is determined to seize it for himself. As Mr Van der Steg, with the help of his pupils, sets out to rescue the boy, he becomes more and more entangled with the strange history of the Seven Ways, the House of Stairs and the powerful Conspiracy of Seven.
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9781782691426 |
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5th October 2017 |
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Tonke Dragt |
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Pushkin Children's Books |
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Paperback |
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350 pages |
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Press Reviews
Tonke Dragt Press Reviews
Praise for The Letter for the King: A Sunday Times, Metro and Times Book of the Year;
'A true page-turner' Sunday Times
'Thrilling' Daily Telegraph
'A pulse-pounding epic' Metro
'Spellbinding' Financial Times
'A cracker' Spectator.
Praise for The Secrets of the Wild Wood: A Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times Book of the Year
'Action-packed drama' Daily Mail
'Thrilling' Metro
'A spellbinding tale that will appeal to the young and old' The Lady
'An extremely cleverly constructed story' NBD Biblion
'A fantastic story, exciting and mysterious' Chicklit.nl
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About Tonke Dragt
Tonke Dragt was born in Jakarta in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in Indonesia. When she was twelve, she was interned in a camp run by the Japanese occupiers, where she wrote (with a friend) her very first book using begged and borrowed paper. Her family moved to the Netherlands after the war and, after studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Dragt became an art teacher. She published her first book in 1961, followed a year later by The Letter for the King, which won the Children's Book of the Year award and has been translated into sixteen languages. Dragt was awarded the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1976 and was knighted in 2001.
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