An evocative, beautifully imagined and heart-wrenching wartime story by celebrated author Timothee 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.