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The Letter For The King

By (author) Tonke Dragt, Designed by Tonke Dragt

12.60

The classic fantasy novel, acclaimed as a Sunday Times, Times and Metro Book of the Year, now in paperback!

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SKU: 9781782690269

ISBN: 9781782690269

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 512

Dimensions: 12.9 × 19.8 cm

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  • From 9 to 11 years
  • Paperback / softback | 512 pages
  • 12.9 × 19.8 cm | 0
  • 05 June 2014
  • Pushkin Children's Books
  • United Kingdom
  • English

About the author

Tonke Dragt

2 Published Books

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 publ ished 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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