When Tiuri answers a desperate call for help, he finds himself on a perilous mission that could cost him his life. He must deliver a secret letter to the King who lives across the Great Mountains - a letter upon which the future of the entire realm depends.It means abandoning his home, breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind - even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long.The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person...He must trust no one.He must keep his true identity secret.Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter.
CONTRIBUTORS: Tonke DragtEAN: 9781782692591COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pushkin Children's BooksDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Media Tie-In, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & MagicWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
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Interest age: from c 10 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
A true page-turner, A thrilling, page-turning tale... My 10- and 11-year-old were both gripped, This 1962 pulse-pounding epic... will keep all high-fantasy addicts riveted from the first page, A seamless translation...Tonke Dragt's novel has the simplicity of plot and clarity of expression characteristic of great children's fiction... this spellbinding classic of high fantasy never once flags, A cracker
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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When Tiuri answers a desperate call for help, he finds himself on a perilous mission that could cost him his life. He must deliver a secret letter to the King who lives across the Great Mountains - a letter upon which the future of the entire realm depends.It means abandoning his home, breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind - even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long.The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person...He must trust no one.He must keep his true identity secret.Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter.
CONTRIBUTORS: Tonke DragtEAN: 9781782692591COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pushkin Children's BooksDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Media Tie-In, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & MagicWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Interest age: from c 10 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
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.
I was truly blessed to hear this book read aloud by the author herself. As a teacher, I have to give Refiloe five stars as she held those six year old's in the palm of her hand. If any of you know children, you know they have the concentration of a flea! The children, however, were spellbound, for just under a hour. When I reflected back on how successful the author's visit was I realized, it was the content of the book that captured their hearts. Every child could relate to one or other theme that was addressed in this beautifully illustrated book. If truth be told, it was also magnificently presented. Refiloe is a dynamic orator. Many more schools need to have her books on their library shelves and allow her to grace them with her presence.