The Song of Seven - Couverture souple

Dragt, Tonke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782695044 ISBN 13 : 9781782695042

Editeur : Pushkin Children's Books, 2025

Synopsis

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

Deep in the woods, a young boy is kept prisoner by his uncle. He cannot meet other children, or have any friends. He holds the key to a secret. Meanwhile, in a quiet village, Frans the schoolteacher invents stories of the perilous deeds, shipwrecks, desert islands, and haunted castles faced by his heroic alter ego, Frans the Red, to entertain his pupils. Then one stormy evening, too tired to invent something new, Frans fobs his students off with the invented excuse of awaiting an important letter - only when he gets home, a letter really does blow onto his doormat, summoning him to a meeting.

Suddenly, Frans is on a real-life mission to liberate the boy in the woods, a mission on which he will encounter magicians, secret passages, conspiracies, hidden treasure and a sealed parchment which predicts the future. He will learn the secret of the Seven Ways. He will find seven allies. And he will make a fearsome enemy.

Featuring prophecies, wise herbalists, dilapidated coaches and a magical song that proves the solution to all of Frans's problems, this classic adventure shows that our everyday selves can be every bit as heroic as the parts we play in our most swashbuckling fantasies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 British literary translator. She has translated works from Dutch, Italian and German, and resides in the Netherlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Children's Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782695044
• ISBN 13: 9781782695042
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
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