The ever useful Google Alerts tells me this morning that in California (USA) this week Mrs Miller’s History class has begun to read and discuss Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Iliad – Black Ships Before Troy. Good choice!
Author: Anthony Lawton
Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of eminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK. Sometimes a consultant.
Sutcliff titles and reviews on Goodreads
The Goodreads web community has lists of editions and translations of Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels and stories. Thus this is the page about The Eagle of the Ninth editions. There are over 500 reviews of The Eagle of the Ninth here on the site.
Kjoek children’s books website in Holland covers Rosemary Sutcliff
The lively Dutch website Kjoek! which claims that on it ‘you can find anything about children’s books’, writes about Rosemary Sutcliff here, along with other children’s writers, kinderboekenschrijvers in Dutch I think! Read More »
Dutch Zilveren Griffel award
A Dutch enthusiast for Rosemary Sutcliff, Anita Meulstee, tells me that in 1971 Rosemary won the Zilveren Griffel – The Silver Pencil – which together with the Golden Pencil award is one of the major literary prizes for Dutch Children’s and Young Adult literature. Each year in the Week of Childrens’ Books the CPNB (in Dutch the Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, which encourages the habits of book buying and book reading) awards the PencilsRead More »
Robin Hood book wins 1971 Zilveren Griffel book award in Holland
Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘De roemruchte daden van Robin Hood’ (The Chronicles of Robin Hood) – a retelling of the story of Robin Hood – was awarded a Zilveren Griffel book award in 1971 in Holland. This is a Childrens/Young Adult book award. Anita Meulstee from the Netherlands, on Library Thing, alerted meRead More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 