He is not allowed to speak or listen to the voices outside. 'Tiuri has to spend his last night as squire, before he can become knight, in a chapel with his friends. One day, Dragt told her students about a teenage squire who has to complete all-night vigil before he can receive his knighthood, but leaves the chapel of his vigil to answer a call for help. Usually, Dragt forgot about these stories soon afterwards while creating new ones. To keep the students' attention, she told short stories and usually stopped telling at a cliffhanger, after which the pupils were allowed to draw accompanying illustrations. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dragt worked in a secondary school as a drawing teacher. Tonke Dragt took an interest in the Middle Ages from a young age and was especially involved in reading classic English chivalric romances. The book has been translated in Danish, English, German, Russian, Greek, Estonian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Spanish and Catalan. De brief voor de koning was chosen as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the 20th century. Proceeding, The Secrets of the Wild Wood ( Dutch: Geheim van het Wilde Woud), was published in 1965, and a collection of follow-up short stories, The Dangerous Window and other stories ( Dutch: Het Gevaarlijke Venster en andere verhalen), in 1979. The Letter for the King ( Dutch: De brief voor de koning, pronounced ) is a book by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt, first published in 1962.
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