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The Letter for the King

By Tonke Dragt
Series: Pushkin Children’s Classics
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A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. 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... Read More
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The bestselling classic fantasy novel, acclaimed as a Times and Sunday TimesBook of the Year

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A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril.

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.

It means abandoning his home, breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind—even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long.

The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person...

He must trust no one.
He must keep his true identity secret.
Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782694922

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Children's Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Laura Watkinson
  • Illustrated by Tonke Dragt
  • Translated by Laura Watkinson

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 512

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About the Author

Tonke Dragt was born in Jakarta in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in Indonesia. 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. She died in 2024.

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