Interview here in The Times newspaper with your blog’s author – about Rosemary Sutcliff, the book The Eagle of the Ninth and the film The Eagle.
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Rosemary Sutcliff’s Warrior Scarlet in critic Julia Eccleshare’s Top Ten Children’s Books
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff is recommended by Julia Eccleshare, children’s books editor of the Guardian newspaper, as one of her Top Ten Children’s Books in Babyccino Kids, ‘an international lifestyle website for modern mums’:
… true burning Warrior Scarlet … was the very colour of courage itself. No woman might wear the colour, nor might the Half People who came and went at the Tribe’s call. It was for the Men’s side.
Warrior Scarlet, published in 1957, is indeed a wonderful historical novel, illustrated by Charles Keeping. Of the story, Julia Eccleshare writes:
Rosemary Sutcliff had an exceptional ability to bring the past to life; in Warrior Scarlet it is the Bronze Age. Drem needs to kill a wolf to become a man of the tribe. How he first fails and then succeeds in doing so despite his withered arm is a moving story about overcoming adversity.
Julia Eccleshare compiled 1001 Children’s Books: You Must Read Before You Grow Up,
- Julia Eccleshare’s top ten book list in Babyccino Kids here
- More on Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel Warrior Scarlet on this blog
Seattle Times Book Editor loves The Eagle of the Ninth this week | Sutcliff Review of the Week
Mary Ann Gwin wrote on Christmas Day
As a youngster I was enthralled by this novel (The Eagle of the Ninth) by Rosemary Sutcliff, about a young Roman soldier determined to find out what happened to his father, whose legion disappeared without a trace in Northern Britain in the second century A.D. Now “Eagle” has been made into a movie, scheduled for release in 2011 (with Donald Sutherland, Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell). And the first three books in the series, including “Eagle,” “The Lantern Bearers” and “The Silver Branch,” have been reissued by Square Fish for a new generation to discover.
Source: The Arts | What our writers love this week | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Guardian UK newspaper name-checks The Eagle of the Ninth in Children’s Books podcast
Film Centurion not based on The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
The film The Eagle, not Centurion, is based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novel The Eagle of the Ninth. I mention this because it was wrongly claimed in the UK Guardian newspaper when the film first came out earlier this year that the film Centurion was indeed based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s book. I wrote to put them right! And it bears repeating, since Centurion is due out in the States and has just come out now on DVD:Read More »
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