The Song of Seven

Tonke Dragt

ISBN 10: 1782695044 / ISBN 13: 9781782695042

Verlag: Steerforth Press Sep 2025, 2025

Beschreibung

Neuware - A magical adventure about everyday heroes and the power of music, from the author of The Letter to the King.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781782695042

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Song of Seven
• Verlag: Steerforth Press Sep 2025
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1782695044
• ISBN-13: 9781782695042
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 196B x 128 H x 24 T Millimeter Breite: 196 mm, Höhe: 128 mm, Tiefe: 24 mm
• Gewicht: 277 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

'A magical, strange, gripping tale' Spectator

'A cracking adventure... so nail-biting you'll need to wear protective gloves' The Times

Deep in the woods, a young boy is kept prisoner by his uncle. He sees no other children, and has no friends. But he does hold the key to a secret.

Meanwhile, in a nearby village, schoolteacher Frans invents stories of perilous deeds, shipwrecks, and haunted castles to entertain his pupils. Then one stormy evening, he is summoned to a clandestine meeting, and sent on a real-life quest - to free the boy in the woods. His adventure will involve hidden treasure, magicians and a prophecy. He will learn the secret of the Seven Ways. He will find seven allies. And he will make a fearsome enemy.

But will he accomplish his mission?

Part of the new Pushkin Children's Classics series of thrilling, magical and inspiring stories from around the world, which young readers will return to time and again.

Translated by Laura Watkinson.

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.

Laura Watkinson is a full-time translator from Dutch, Italian and German. She has translated many titles for Pushkin Children's Books, including Jan Terlouw's Winter in Wartime, Tonke Dragt's The Letter for the King and Annet Schaap's Lampie. She lives in Amsterdam.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tonke Dragt writes and illustrates books of adventure, fantasy and fairy tales. She was born in 1930 in Jakarta. When she was twelve, she was imprisoned in a Japanese camp, where she wrote her very first book using begged and borrowed paper. After the war, she moved to the Netherlands with her family, and eventually became an art teacher. She published her first book in 1961, and a year later this was followed by 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. She was awarded the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1976 and was knighted in 2001.