Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:
It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »
School class reads Rosemary Sutcliff’s Black Ships before Troy | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
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!
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.
Kjoek children’s books website in Holland covers Rosemary Sutcliff
The lively Dutch website Kjoek! which claims that on it ‘you can find anything about children’s books’, writes about Rosemary Sutcliff here, along with other children’s writers, kinderboekenschrijvers in Dutch I think! Read More »
Dutch Zilveren Griffel award
A Dutch enthusiast for Rosemary Sutcliff, Anita Meulstee, tells me that in 1971 Rosemary won the Zilveren Griffel – The Silver Pencil – which together with the Golden Pencil award is one of the major literary prizes for Dutch Children’s and Young Adult literature. Each year in the Week of Childrens’ Books the CPNB (in Dutch the Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, which encourages the habits of book buying and book reading) awards the PencilsRead More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 