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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. Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Prologue: Winter in the Wood -- Part One: Sir Idian -- 1 Travel Plans -- 2 Castle Ristridin -- 3 Knights of King Unauwen -- 4 Two Knights from the South -- 5 Prince of the West -- 6 To Islan -- Part Two: The Daughter of Islan -- 1 Red Quibo's Tale -- 2 Candlelight and Harp Music -- 3 On The Edge of the Wild Wood -- 4 Yellow Flowers -- 5 In the Lady's Garden -- 6 The Road to the Unholy Hills -- Part Three: The Fool in the Forest -- 1 An Old Friend -- 2 A Celebration Disrupted -- 3 Parting Ways -- 4 Stoneford -- 5 Along the Black River -- 6 The Owl House -- 7 The Man in Green -- 8 The Tree -- 9 The Sound of Drums -- 10 Enemies -- Part Four: Piak -- 1 To The East -- 2 From the Dead Stone to the North -- 3 The Guardian of the Forgotten City -- 4 To the Brown Monastery -- 5 Men of Mistrinaut -- 6 Fox -- 7 The Drums Speak Again -- Part Five: The Black Knight with the Red Shield -- 1 Red Riders and Men in Green -- 2 The Master of the Red Riders -- 3 The Duel -- 4 The Tarnburg -- 5 A Game of Chess -- 6 The Road of Ambuscade -- 7 Unmasked -- 8 Life or Death -- 9 The Third Night -- Part Six: The Men in Green -- 1 The Green River and the Watchtower -- 2 Sent to the North -- 3 The Deep Lake -- 4 The Master of the Wild Wood -- 5 Piak and Adelbart -- 6 A Black Shadow -- 7 The Enemy -- 8 Together Again -- 9 Tiuri and Lavinia -- 10 Plans and Goodbyes -- 11 Tehalon's Secret -- Part Seven: Sir Ristridin -- 1 The Prisoner -- 2 Lady Isadoro and Sir Fitil -- 3 Red Quibo -- 4 Sir Kraton of Indigo -- 5 Ristridin's Homecoming -- 6 Back to the Wild Wood -- Part Eight: Final Moves -- 1 The Pass -- 2 The Descent -- 3 The Way to the Vorgóta Gong -- 4 The Vorgóta Gong -- 5 Echoes -- 6 Waking Up -- 7 The Black River and the Tarnburg -- 8 The Mistress of Islan -- 9 Endgame -- 10 The Unholy Hills -- 11 The Challenge -- 12 Single Combat.
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