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Tonke Dragt was born in 1930 in Indonesia. When she was twelve, she was imprisoned in a Japanese camp during the war, where she wrote her very first book using begged and borrowed paper. After the war, she and her family moved to the Netherlands, where she became an art teacher. In 1962 she published her most famous story, The Letter for the King, which won the Children's Book of the Year Award and has been translated into sixteen languages. Its sequel, The Secrets of the Wild Wood, followed in 1965, and will be published by Pushkin Children's Books in 2015. Dragt was awarded the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1976 and was knighted in 2001.
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 This remarkable fantasy series, rich in colour, action and verbal virtuosity, was first published in 1963 and has been translated seamlessly from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. Between the pages are all the essential and traditional ingredients of a timeless and heroic tale with its motifs of friendship, love, courage, loyalty, chivalry... and vile villainy. Lancashire Evening Post Not many books are genuinely spellbinding, this one is Lovereading4Kids Tiuri's adventures take a supernatural turn as he travels through the wild wood on the trail of a missing knight. It is a place of lost cities, robbers, unreliable princesses and mysterious men in green, all posing challenges to the intrepid hero. [This book] deserves readers of all ages Sunday Express Action-packed drama Daily Mail
