The Secrets Of The Wild Wood (Winter Edition)

Author(s): Tonke Dragt

Young Adult

A stunning gift edition of the thrilling sequel to the bestselling adventure The Letter for the King.


One of the King's most trusted knights has vanished in the snow, so young Sir Tiuri and his best friend Piak must journey into the shadowy heart of the forest to find him.


The Wild Wood is a place of mysteries, rumours and whispered tales. A place of lost cities, ancient curses, robbers, princesses and Men in Green. 


As the darkness surrounds him and reports grow of secret plots and ruthless enemies, Tiuri finds himself alone and fighting for survival - caught in a world where good and evil wear the same face, and the wrong move could cost him his life ...


Product Information

Tonke Dragt was born in 1930 in Jakarta. 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 knighted in 2001.

General Fields

  • : 9781782691952
  • : Faber Factory
  • : Pushkin Children's
  • : October 2017
  • : August 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tonke Dragt
  • : Paperback
  • : Tonke Dragt (Author)