Rosemary Sutcliff won the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972. She also won the (UK) Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959; was highly commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974, and nominated in 1968; the Phoenix Children’s Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985, and for The Shining Company in 2010; and the The Carnegie Medal for the Lantern Bearers in 1959.
(April 17, 2010) see revised, updated post here.
I have been using LibraryTing to catalogue all Sutcliff editions and translations. Last night I realised I was becoming rather obsessed as I bored on to some friends about it. Read More »
A son’s post on LiveJournal, sent to me by a stranger (to me): “Oh my God Daddy this is so BRILLIANT I want you to keep reading until the end or until we both fall asleep.” He likes it then …
Rosemary Sutcliff “followed ” in Geoffrey Trease’s footsteps – was the correct claim of a Morning Star article but they were wrong about when. And the newspaper spelled her name wrong (with an ‘E’). But the article The man who told the people’s stories was intriguing about children’s writer Geoffrey Trease. I wrote to the editor:Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 