The Letter for the King

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. The classic fantasy novel acclaimed as a <i>Sunday Times</i> <i>Times</i> and<i> Metro</i> Book of the Year now in paperback! <p><b>The bestselling classic fantasy novel acclaimed as a <i>Times</i> <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>Metro </i>Book of the Year</b><br><br>A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril.<br><br>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.<br><br>It means abandoning his home breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind - even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long.<br><br>The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person...<br>He must trust no one.<br>He must keep his true identity secret.<br>Above all he must never reveal what is in the letter.</p> <p><b>The bestselling classic fantasy novel acclaimed as a <i>Times</i> <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>Metro </i>Book of the Year</b><br><br>A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril.<br><br>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.<br><br>It means abandoning his home breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind - even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long.<br><br>The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person...<br>He must trust no one.<br>He must keep his true identity secret.<br>Above all he must never reveal what is in the letter.</p>