LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
One of our Books of the Year 2015 Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King has been acknowledged as a classic of Dutch literature since its publication over fifty years ago, but it took until 2013 for it to find a British publisher. Pushkin Press took it on and published it to huge acclaim, the story of young squire Tiuri’s trials as he sets about carrying out the final wishes of a dying man captured the hearts of readers in the UK. Now comes the sequel, and some may think it even more thrilling than the original. Tiuri, now a knight, has another mission: he will go into the Wild Wood to search for one of the King’s knights who has gone missing. There are lots of rumours about the Wild Wood, about robbers, woodland spirits, Men in Green, but Tiuri’s adventures will be stranger still. Not many books are genuinely spellbinding, this one is. ~ Andrea Reece
A Piece of Passion from Adam Freudenheim, Publisher of Pushkin Children’s Books I was thrilled and proud by the amazing response we had to the first book we published by Tonke Dragt, The Letter for the King. We have since had countless children and teachers writing to us, asking when the next book is coming out. Well – here it is at last. And what a book it is! I really believe The Secrets of the Wild Wood is even better than The Letter for the King. Tiuri is older, and the plot is darker, more complex – and even more gripping. But it still retains that grand atmosphere of mystery and suspense that drew so many children (and their parents) to the world of knights and squires, and to the dark secrets of the Wild Woods…
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The Secrets of the Wild Wood Synopsis
A stunning gift edition of the Sunday Times and Telegraph Children's Book of the Year-the "action-packed" sequel to The Letter for the King (Daily Mail)
Young Sir Tiuri searches for a missing knight in the perilous, magical forest of the Wild Wood-where discerning friend from foe is no easy task . . .
One of the King's most trusted knights has vanished in the snow, so young Sir Tiuri and his best friend Piak must journey into the shadowy heart of the forest to find him. The Wild Wood is a place of mysteries, rumors and whispered tales. A place of lost cities, ancient curses, robbers, princesses, and Men in Green.
As the darkness surrounds him and reports grow of secret plots and ruthless enemies, Tiuri finds himself alone and fighting for survival-caught in a world where good and evil wear the same face, and the wrong move could cost him his life.
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9781782694939 |
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3rd July 2025 |
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Tonke Dragt |
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Tonke Dragt |
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Pushkin Children's Books an imprint of Steerforth Press |
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Paperback |
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512 pages |
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Pushkin Children's Classics |
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Press Reviews
Tonke Dragt Press Reviews
'Fans of The Letter for the King will be delighted with its sequel' Sunday Times
'Action-packed drama' Daily Mail
'Thrilling' Metro
The Letter for the King was a Sunday Times, Metro and Times Book of the Year
Praise for The Letter for the King:
'A true page-turner Sunday Times
'Brilliant, extraordinary' The Times
'A pulse-pounding epic... will keep all high-fantasy addicts riveted from the first page' Metro
'A real cracker... a wonderfully simple, wonderfully gripping story' Spectator
'A brilliantly epic tale' Sunday Express
'A medieval fantasy of the highest order, action-packed and atmospheric' Robert Dunbar, Irish Times
'This spellbinding classic of high fantasy never once flags' FinancialTimes
'A charming story told simply and captivatingly... the first English translation of a classic of European children's literature which... deserves to be richly treasured' Booktrust
'The plot is central, and extremely gripping, but the writing also delivers lovely detail and evocative description' Guardian Children's Books
'An absolute pleasure... immensely enjoyable... vivid and intelligent' newbooks
'My ten-year-old daughter says [it's] the best book she's ever read' CerysMatthews, Mail on Sunday
'Gripping...inspiring' Rachel Khoo
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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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