For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
12 thoughts on “ADVICE PLEASE from Rosemary Sutcliff fans, readers and experts on best of her books for inquiring 10 year old.”
I loved the Rosemary Sutcliff Eagle of the Ninth, and follow ups at this age. You could also look at Barbara Willard, if still in print – The Sprig of Broom and others in that series, and you could try the novels of Diana Wynne Jones – Cart and Cwidder , The Spellcoats, and others.
I also think The Eagle of the Ninth, and The Mark of the Horse Lord would be good choices . Warrior Scarlet also has its compassionate heart which touched me as a youth.
If she is a young 10-year-old Flame Coloured Taffeta or The Armourer’s House. Then the Eagle of the Ninth series.
Though I am in my 90th year I reread her books with great enjoyment.
Thank you for responding and I am so glad you still get pleasure from her books, as she would have been.(I deduce you were more or less a contemprary of Romie – as I knew her!)
Anthony
I think a ten-year-old is a bit young for classic Sutcliff, especially one who does not like The Hunger Games. I know there are Sutcliff books written for younger people, that deal less with the class and status issues that are a part of many of Sutcliff’s best books. The Armourer’s House might work. Harry Potter books are mostly adventure novels with a strong sense that Harry will be ok, and will triumph. Knight’s Fee is very different.
She sounds like a well developed reader. My first Rosemary Sutcliff was Eagle of the Ninth, followed closely by In the Armourer’s House and Outcast and Knight’s Fee – and then it was just a feast after that. Admittedly, my library had an excellent selection of juvenile history titles and my other reading included Geoffrey Trease, Henry Treece, RL Stevenson, Gillian Bradshaw, Dumas, Marryat and William Mayne among others so i was already steeped in the past – still am for that matter :). I would suggest any point is a good point to start, but Rider of the White Horse might appeal as it can be read at many levels of maturity.
The Eagle of the Ninth cycle. The Shield Ring. Read it when I was about that age, and it’s still my favorite book. The Mark of the Horse Lord would also be a good pick.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
I loved the Rosemary Sutcliff Eagle of the Ninth, and follow ups at this age. You could also look at Barbara Willard, if still in print – The Sprig of Broom and others in that series, and you could try the novels of Diana Wynne Jones – Cart and Cwidder , The Spellcoats, and others.
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I also think The Eagle of the Ninth, and The Mark of the Horse Lord would be good choices . Warrior Scarlet also has its compassionate heart which touched me as a youth.
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If she is a young 10-year-old Flame Coloured Taffeta or The Armourer’s House. Then the Eagle of the Ninth series.
Though I am in my 90th year I reread her books with great enjoyment.
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Thank you for responding and I am so glad you still get pleasure from her books, as she would have been.(I deduce you were more or less a contemprary of Romie – as I knew her!)
Anthony
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I think a ten-year-old is a bit young for classic Sutcliff, especially one who does not like The Hunger Games. I know there are Sutcliff books written for younger people, that deal less with the class and status issues that are a part of many of Sutcliff’s best books. The Armourer’s House might work. Harry Potter books are mostly adventure novels with a strong sense that Harry will be ok, and will triumph. Knight’s Fee is very different.
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Thanks so much.
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She sounds like a well developed reader. My first Rosemary Sutcliff was Eagle of the Ninth, followed closely by In the Armourer’s House and Outcast and Knight’s Fee – and then it was just a feast after that. Admittedly, my library had an excellent selection of juvenile history titles and my other reading included Geoffrey Trease, Henry Treece, RL Stevenson, Gillian Bradshaw, Dumas, Marryat and William Mayne among others so i was already steeped in the past – still am for that matter :). I would suggest any point is a good point to start, but Rider of the White Horse might appeal as it can be read at many levels of maturity.
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The Eagle of the Ninth cycle. The Shield Ring. Read it when I was about that age, and it’s still my favorite book. The Mark of the Horse Lord would also be a good pick.
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Thanks, I will pass this and all comments on.
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