Field guide
How to Care for Your Pencil
A sound point is only the beginning. A mouse soldier’s notes on worn wood, patient work, and the paws that will depend on yours.
Read the guide →Cotton Bunaparte · Book One
What a rabbit will do
to bring him home.
Oliver has vanished. Cotton, his small white toy rabbit, follows his trail into a world at war—and finds soldiers who need someone to lead them.
From The General’s Human
The mouse between her and the fire held a long yellow pencil upright in both paws. Its pink eraser was planted in the earth, the metal collar dulled with dirt. The shaft rose far above his head, its paint worn to bare wood where he gripped it. At the upper end, a long taper of shaved wood narrowed to a black graphite point. Rain had darkened the grey fur along his shoulders. He shifted his paws along the shaft and lowered that point towards Cotton.
“Stay there, rabbit.”
She stopped with the point held steady in front of her. She had been ready to call out as soon as she found someone. Now she had to make herself speak.
“I’m looking for a boy. His name is Oliver. Have you seen him?”
Safe before Book 1
Field guide
A sound point is only the beginning. A mouse soldier’s notes on worn wood, patient work, and the paws that will depend on yours.
Read the guide →Camp voices
An old Orc fits a young recruit’s shield and explains what the captain’s promises will cost, beginning with the work waiting beyond the camp fire.
Read the story →Beyond the pages
Step into the Cotton Bunaparte library, at your own pace.