I am wondering why there were over 50 visits yesterday from Israel to here (http://www.rosemarysutcliff.com) when usually there are only 1 or 2 a day from there? Any of you reading this too can tell me? I would appreciate it.
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Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.
Rudyard Kipling influenced Rosemary Sutcliff | From 1981
This is the first few paragraphs of an academic article about Rosemary Sutcliff from 1981 (Children’s Literature in Education, Summer 1981, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp 90-102).
Source: Shadows on the downs: Some influences of Rudyard Kipling on Rosemary Sutcliff
Interest in Rosemary Sutcliff | From Chile to Australia, Croatia to New Zealand
I am always intrigued to see where views come from, especially those with small numbers.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s finest books find liberal-minded members of elites wrestling with uncomfortable epochal changes
So, this is one set of arguments for Rosemary Sutcliff having written at least one of the Best Children’s Books of the Last 100 Years – an editorial in the Guardian newspaper (2011). And reasons for contemporary relevance. Rosemary Sutcliff‘s 1954 children’s classic The Eagle of the Ninth (still in print more than 50 years on) is the first […]
No Rosemary Sutcliff not good enough for top 100 children’s book of last 100 years say Booktrust | Outrageous and wrong!
So, the Booktrust (“inspiring a love of good books”) uses “a group of children’s book experts drawn from across Booktrust” to create their list of the “100 best books for children” of the last 100 years. There is not one by Rosemary Sutcliff ! I was intrigued to search out the criteria they used. The […]
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 