The Secrets of the Wild Wood (eBook)

Tonke Dragt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
460 Seiten
Pushkin Children's Books (Verlag)
978-1-78269-062-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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, rumours 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...

Autor

Tonke Dragt was born in Jakarta in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in Indonesia. 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. She died in 2024.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2015
• Illustrationen: Tonke Dragt
• Übersetzer: Laura Watkinson
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Schlagworte: children's adventure stories • children's fantasy series • classic children's books • Dutch • dutch translation • European children’s literature • Letter for the King • Letter for the King TV series • Netflix Letter for the King • The Hobbit • Tiuri • Tolkien
• ISBN-10: 1-78269-062-X / 178269062X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78269-062-7 / 9781782690627