Captain Rosalie

ISBN-13: 9781406386806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 64 str.

Timothée de Fombelle;Isabelle Arsenault;Sam Gordon

Opis

An evocative, beautifully imagined and incredibly moving 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.

Recenzje

The centenary of the First World War has brought a full postbag of titles about children and war, including Michael Morpurgo's Our Jacko and Poppy Field and The Button War by the Newbery medal winner Avi, to name but a few. These three are excellent reads, but the greatest discovery has been a small book by Timothée de Fombelle, a French playwright and author known, but not previously by me, for his Vango adventure series and "Toby" books, who has collaborated with the talented illustrator Isabelle Arsenault... De Fombelle writes minimally for maximum effect and Arsenault's mostly red, black and white ink and watercolours are stunning. A perfect little book about war, grief and peace that packs a mighty punch. Alex O'Connell The Times

O autorze

Timothée de Fombelle is the author of Toby Alone - a thrilling tale of heroism, friendship and survival - and its sequel, Toby Alone and the Secrets of the Tree.