Macmillan: Farrar Strauss Giroux, publishers of Rosemary Sutcliff in the USA, have a teacher’s Guide to their Sutcliff books: Teacher’s Guide to Rosemary Sutcliff from Farrar Strauss Giroux. I live in hope that some teachers find their way to this post and tell me if it is any good! It covers:Read More »
Category: Sword Song
A Reader’s Review of Rosemary Sutcliff’s final historical novel Sword Song
The Crawdad Hole has a long post on Sword Song – I have not found this to be written about as much by readers. I love the book because I transcribed it from Rosemary Sutcliff‘s hand-written draft manuscript left on her desk when she died suddenly in 1992. Her long-time editor Jill Black finalised it for publication.
Summary of historical novelist Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s book Sword Song (1997)
Sword Song was Rosemary Sutcliff‘s last children’s book, left in manuscript form on her desk when she died in 1992. In summary, the story is this:
Sixteen year old Bjarni Sigurdson, a young Viking swordsman, did not mean to kill the holy man who had kicked his dog but Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 