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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 book awards and nominations
Numerous book awards were won by Rosemary Sutcliff for historical novels and writing for children and young people in the UK, the USA, Denwmark, Holland and elsewhere. She won these awards at least (almost all listed on LibraryThing):
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 