The ever useful Google Alerts tells me this morning that in California (USA) this week Mrs Miller’s History class has begun to read and discuss Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Iliad – Black Ships Before Troy. Good choice!
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.
Sutcliff titles and reviews on Goodreads
The Goodreads web community has lists of editions and translations of Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels and stories. Thus this is the page about The Eagle of the Ninth editions. There are over 500 reviews of The Eagle of the Ninth here on the site.
Robin Hood book wins 1971 Zilveren Griffel book award in Holland
Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘De roemruchte daden van Robin Hood’ (The Chronicles of Robin Hood) – a retelling of the story of Robin Hood – was awarded a Zilveren Griffel book award in 1971 in Holland. This is a Childrens/Young Adult book award. Anita Meulstee from the Netherlands, on Library Thing, alerted meRead More »
Scientist likes The Eagle of the Ninth
The Scientist Gone Wordy blog author reviewed The Eagle of the Ninth today. She judged that the book was very slow to start but she concluded:
Overall, though, I recommend the book. Be sure to stick with it if, like me, you find it slow to start because it really picks up and is a very cool story… I’m looking forward to the rest of her backlist. Rating: 4 of 5 stars.
source: here
Library Thing Polyanna loves Simon
Lovely, lovely book; one of my favourite books ever. It’s about the English Civil War, and manages to convey information about and the perspective of, both sides pretty fairly, which is rare in books on the subject. Although Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 