![]() ![]() Tiuri, a young squire about to become a knight, is interrupted during his overnight vigil which precedes his knighting by a whispered call for help. The setting is also Arthurian, but in an imaginary world of three kingdoms, knights with different colored shields and horses, and just a touch of magic and wonder. ![]() The simplicity of language, sentence structure and plot all remind me of Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. It reads like a translation from some other language or some other world, which helps rather than hinders the sense of an otherworldly quest in another time and place. The book has been translated into over sixteen languages, most recently with an English translation by Laura Watkinson. ![]() It won the Children’s Book of the Year award in the Netherlands and subsequently in 2004 was chosen as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the twentieth century. Another book for my Around the World project, The Letter for the King ( De brief voor de Koning) was published in 1962 by the Dutch author Tonke Dragt. ![]()
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