Channing Tatum is in the upcoming movie “Eagle of the Ninth” is a piece on the coming film which makes the case for it as a movie for girls, with the “hunky” Channing Tatum. More about the film and the book on which it is based here on this blog.
Category: Novels, Stories & Books
Rosemary Sutcliff was an internationally renowned writer of historical novels, for children, young adults and adults. She also wrote stories for children. This category compiles the posts on this blog by title.
‘Swords and sandals’ film The Eagle of the Ninth bids for box-office glory
Swords and sandals: A bid for box-office glory is an article in The Independent about forthcoming historical films, including The Eagle of the Ninth. ‘Swords and Sandals’ as a label for a genre of films which I have only recently come across. Perhaps it was only recently coined? It is the name of a popular series of computer games. More about the film and the book on which it is based here on this blog. And the obituary about Rosemary from The Independent here.
Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult 1972
Rosemary Sutcliff won the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972. She also won the (UK) Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959; was highly commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974, and nominated in 1968; the Phoenix Children’s Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985, and for The Shining Company in 2010; and the The Carnegie Medal for the Lantern Bearers in 1959.
- More about awards won by Rosemary Sutcliff here on this blog.
Using LibraryThing to catalogue Sutcliff books
I have been using LibraryTing to catalogue all Sutcliff editions and translations. Last night I realised I was becoming rather obsessed as I bored on to some friends about it. Read More »
American boy keeps reading The Eagle of the Ninth
A son’s post on LiveJournal, sent to me by a stranger (to me): “Oh my God Daddy this is so BRILLIANT I want you to keep reading until the end or until we both fall asleep.” He likes it then …
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 