Category: The Eagle of the Ninth

Boys Rule Boys Read! goes WOW about The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutclliff

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Over there (from here in England) at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library they work very energetically to encourage boys to read, and they are really, really enthusiastic about Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth

Wow.Wow …. Have you ever sat in a theatre after a movie was over, stunned and unable to get up because the movie was so great? Doesn’t happen often, does it? Well, books as great as The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff don’t come along that often either. And just like a great movie, this book left me sitting there going, “Wow.”The whole purpose of this blog is to tell you about terrific books, so I’m going to tell you guys right now that his is one terrific book!
Source: Boys Rule Boys Read!: The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutclliff.

And the in their view the book is excellent for group discussions: Read More »

Rosemary Sutcliff children’s book classic The Eagle of the Ninth reviewed by Brian Alderson

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Rosemary Sutcliff, was provided by the time when the Roman Empire was crumbling at the edges  with (says critic and children’s book expert Brian Alderson):

a complex of subjects of great dramatic potential: civilising discipline set against tribal barbarities, the servants of Empire with an allegiance also to a homeland within its borders, the selfless devotion, on either side of the equation, to causes and to overarching human relationships (and even those between man and beast) … Read More »

Was The Eagle of the Ninth destroyed in Scotland?

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Source: Eboracvm: Carved in Stone by Graham Clews. Trafford Publishing .

Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth and Warrior Scarlet recommended by bestselling author Philip Reeve

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Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth and Warrior Scarlet have been listed by writer Philip Reeve as two of his favourite books, defined as ‘the books which mattered most to me while I was growing up … (which are) well worth tracking down’!.

…or I could have chosen Knight’s Fee, or The Lantern Bearers, or Sun-horse, Moon-horse, or Frontier Wolf… Rosemary Sutcliff is one of my favourite children’s authors, and I doubt she ever wrote a bad book, but these were the two I liked best when I was growing up. Read More »

STOP PRESS The Eagle of the Ninth film tie-in edition published by OUP

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Rosemary Sutcliff’s bestselling historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth was first published by Oxford University Press in 1954. Today a special paperback version, tied-in to the film The Eagle, is published. See and buy it here on the OUP site; or here at Amazon in the UK. or here in the USA.