An evocative, beautifully imagined and incredibly moving wartime story by celebrated author Timothée de Fombelle.
In this astonishingly-drawn wartime story, a little girl called Rosalie is a captain on a very secret mission; a mission to learn how to read. Mother reads often to Rosalie, especially when Father sends them letters from the front line describing the forest in the distance, the churned-up soil and the soldiers hiding in holes. But as Rosalie gets further along in her mission and begins to piece together the words in her father’s letters, the truth about the consequences of war are finally and irrevocably revealed.
- ISBN10 1406386804
- ISBN13 9781406386806
- Publish Date 3 October 2019 (first published 1 November 2018)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 February 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English