Tonke Dragt (Author)

The Secrets of the Wild Wood

Illustrator: Dragt, Tonke / Übersetzer: Watkinson, Laura

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Produktbeschreibung

Tiuri returns in The Secrets of the Wild Wood, the thrilling and long-awaited sequel to The Letter for the King!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Children's Books / Pushkin Press
• Originaltitel: De geheimen van het Wilde Woud
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 151mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9781782690610
• ISBN-10: 1782690611
• Artikelnr.: 42679899

Autorenporträt

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.