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.
I have been trying to nudge upwards the number of followers of (people who “like”) the Facebook ‘page’ on Rosemary Sutcliff. Progress is slow. However the ‘viral effect’ is moving in the right direction, whatever exactly it is. (I have yet to get my head around that, no doubt simple, metric).
This blog is not about education (per se), but Rosemary Sutcliff – who in fact did not go to school until about ten years old, and left at fourteen, but who was passionate about engaging and exciting young people and children. She would, I suspect, have found it unsurprising but depressing that Read More »
The Margaret A. Edwards Award is new to me. It honours an author for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature” and is organised by the young adult division of the American Library Association. The 2012 winner is Susan Cooper for The Dark Is Rising series: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree. 
I sometimes think that we stand at sunset … It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again … We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.
More about Rosemary Sutcliff‘s award-winning historical novel The Lantern Bearers on this blog
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 