The Crawdad Hole has a long post on Sword Song – I have not found this to be written about as much by readers. I love the book because I transcribed it from Rosemary Sutcliff‘s hand-written draft manuscript left on her desk when she died suddenly in 1992. Her long-time editor Jill Black finalised it for publication.
Historical Fiction in the Classroom Blog wrong about Sutcliff not appealing?
Rosemary did not go to school until her later years. But teachers may find useful, if you do not already know it, the Historical Fiction in the Classrroom blog. Mind you, judging by much written material out there on the web and elsewhere, and the number of her book’s still in print and selling, the author is wrong to assert baldly that “… the work of Rosemary Sutcliff no longer appeals to modern readers” (here).
Literary criticism about the young adult historical fiction of Rosemary Sutcliff
Source: 100 More Popular Young Adult Authors by Bernard A. Drew
- For the The Raymond Thompson interview see here.
The Roundabout Horse illustrated children’s story by Rosemary Sutcliff
In The Roundabout Horse, Rosemary Sutcliff’s illustrated children’s story, Sunflower is a special roundabout horse. Although he is made from wood, he has real feelings. Jenny is special. When she rides Sunflower, something magical happens both to him and to her. I love this short children’s story from Rosemary, and my children did too when they were young.
Rosemary Sutcliff, Twitter and Twitpic!
So I am trying to work out how to use Twitter as part of the drive to increase stuff about Rosemary (Sutcliff) on the web. One idea I have is to run a simple diary, using her parallel diary entries. So I tried using twitpic to take an easy picture of a part of a list from one of her note books. It shows how she made her bibliography long before there were word processors and the web; and anyway when there were typewriters she only used hand-written script, in part because of her disability post-Stills disease. But also because she said her stories flowed down her right arm to the page …
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 