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    The Secrets of the Wild Wood

    By Tonke Dragt

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

    'There's no place you can lose your way as quickly as in the Wild Wood...'

    One of the King's knights has gone missing. Sent to explore the mysterious Wild Wood, which no-one dares visit and some say are enchanted, he has vanished in the snow. Tiuri - now Sir Tiuri after carrying out his last perilous mission - has to find him.

    With his best friend and squire, Piak, he must journey into the heart of a terrifying, secret forest realm, where danger is all around and every path leads you astray. It is a place of lost, overgrown cities and ancient curses; of robbers, princesses and strange Men in Green; of old friends and treacherous new enemies - and a secret plot that threatens to bring down the entire kingdom.

    This gripping, spellbinding sequel to The Letter for the King sees a hero facing his greatest test, surrounded by darkness in a world where good and evil wear the same face, and the wrong move could cost his life - but where help comes from the unlikeliest of places.

    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. Dragt was awarded the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1976 and was knighted in 2001.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Children's Books
    Release dateSep 3, 2015
    ISBN9781782690627
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    Tonke Dragt

    Tonke Dragt nació en Yakarta en 1930 y pasó en Indonesia la mayor parte de su juventud. En 1941 se desencadenó la guerra en el Este, Japón invadió la India neerlandesa y Dragt, con 12 años, fue a parar a un campamento japonés con su madre y sus dos hermanas pequeñas. Allí, inspirada por Jules Verne, escribe su primer «libro». Acabada la guerra en 1945, se traslada junto con su familia a los Países Bajos y estudia en la Academia de Bellas Artes de La Haya, convirtiéndose en profesora de dibujo. En 1961 apareció su primer libro: Aventuras de dos gemelos diferentes. Un año después llegó Carta al rey, que fue elegido Mejor libro juvenil del año y en 2004 recibió en su país el Griffel der Griffels («Premio de los Premios») reconociéndolo como el mejor libro juvenil de los últimos cincuenta años.  En 1976 Tonke fue premiada por el conjunto de su obra con el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil.

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    • 4/5
      Surprisingly much better than the first in the series. The action is more focused and characters more nuanced and less one dimensional.Thiuri and Piark don't have an official Quest as such yet, but they decide to meet up with their previous travelling companions just outside the Wild Wood. Here they learn that another Knight of renown as gone missing, and I was very concerned that this would be a repeat of the first book, but fortunately events take a different turn. The Wild Wood is different place to anywhere we've met previously, there's a chance of genuine harm occurring to at least some of the characters, and Thiuri get's his first look at romance, although poor Piark is left yearning. A complex situation develops with knights from the three kingdoms all in the same place, and mostly at the whim of the renegade Wild Wood inhabitants. It's never quite clear if there's actual magic involved or just subtle trickery and skill - a distinction which makes the reading more interesting. The pacing was better, the story more complex and just generally a better book all around. It still has a lot of the first books' naive charm, but it's more tempered with reality now which appeals to older readers. I can see the love for the series based on this book, but probably not enough to explore any of the author's other works.

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