Captain Rosalie Rebecca Solnit Diddle" and “Pat-a-Cake” to “Little

Diddle" and “Pat-a-Cake” to “Little Jack Horner” and “Pussycat

First published in 1945

The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance

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Captain Rosalie Rebecca Solnit Diddle" and “Pat-a-Cake” to “LittleTimothe de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault capture the heart wrenching cost of war for one small girl in a delicately drawn, expertly told tale. While her father is at war, five year old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little girl and tracks her progress in a secret notebook. Some evenings, Rosalies mother reads aloud Fathers letters from the front lines, so that Rosalie knows he is thinking of her and