Tag: children’s literature

Rosemary Sutcliff was a miniaturist painter and reviewer wrote: “The Chief’s Daughter is a miniature in prose” | The Times, 1967

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The Chief's Daughter by Rosemary Sutcliff cover

Rosemary Sutcliff  was a miniaturist before she became an author and The Chief’s Daughter is a miniature in prose, a very short story in which the lines are  neat, bold and clear, the characters lightly brushed in but arresting. Set in ancient Wales it tells how a chieftain’s daughter frees an Irish slave boy destined for sacrifice and how he in his turn unwittingly in his turn saves her  from dying in his place. The story was originally in a volume of tribute by many children’s authors to the memory of Eleanor Farjeon;  now, as a fully illustrated book in a series designed
for seven year olds, The Chief’s Daughter will
deservedly reach a far larger number of young readers.

Source: The fantastic living force of landscape by Elaine Moss; The Times, December 2, 1967, p 23.

Children’s Book Illustration from the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries at the British Library

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Via the intriguing ‘Playing by the Book’  blog by Zoe Toft, I have been reminded that last month the British Library released from a selection of 17th, 18th and 19th century books over 1 million imagess which are available on Flickr for anyone to browse and use. The pictures are organised in sets; one is ‘Children’s Book Illustration – […]

50 Children’s Books Chosen by Hayao Miyazaki | 宮崎駿が選んだ50冊の直筆推薦文展

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A reader at the Rosemary Sutcliff Facebook page has pointed me to  “The Blurbs for 50 Books Chosen by Hayao Miyazaki” exhibition, which was held from August 4-8 2010 at the Seibu Ikebukuro department store in Tokyo.

Book name (JP) Author’s name (JP) Book name (EN) Author’s name (EN) Link (JP) Link (EN)
床下の小人たち メアリー・ノートン The Borrowers Mary Norton Link Link
星の王子さま アントワーヌ・ド・サン＝テグジュペリ The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Link Link
やかまし村の子どもたち アストリッド・リンドグレーン The Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village) Astrid Lindgren Link Link
思い出のマーニー ジョーン・ロビンソン When Marnie was There Joan G. Robinson Link
ツバメ号とアマゾン号 アーサー・ランサム Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome Link Link
飛ぶ教室 エーリッヒ・ケストナー The Flying Classroom Erich Kästner Link Link
ぼくらはわんぱく5人組 カレル・ポラーチェク Bylo nás pìt (There Were Five of Us) Karel Poláček Link
真夜中のパーティー フィリパ・ピアス What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories Ann Philippa Pearce Link
ハンス・ブリンカー M.M.ドッジ Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge Link Link
秘密の花園 フランシス・ホジソン・バーネット The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Link Link
第九軍団のワシ ローズマリー・サトクリフ Eagle of The Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff Link
ニーベルンゲンの宝 G.シャルク Die Nibelungensage (The Treasure of the Nibelungs) Gustav Schalk Link Link
三銃士 アレクサンドル・デュマ・ペール The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, père Link Link
影との戦い アーシュラ・K・ル＝グウィン A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin Link Link
風の王子たち ミシェル・エーメ・ボードウイ Les Princes du Vent Michel-Aime Baudouy Link
フランバース屋敷の人びと K.M.ペイトン The Flambards Series K. M. Peyton Link Link
ファーブルの昆虫記 ジャン・アンリ・ファーブル Souvenirs entomologiques Jean Henri Fabre Link
長い冬 ローラ・インガルス・ワイルダー The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder Link Link
小さい牛追い マリー ハムズン A Norwegian Farm Marie Hamsun Link
ハイジ ヨハンナ・シュピリ Heidi Johanna Spyri Link Link
トム・ソーヤーの冒険 マーク・トウェイン The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Link Link
小公子 フランシス・ホジソン・バーネット Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett Link Link
みどりのゆび モーリス・ドリュオン Tistou Les Pouces Verts (Tistou of the Green Thumbs) Maurice Druon Link
シャーロックホームズの冒険 コナン・ドイル The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Link Link
クローディアの秘密 E・L・カニグズバーグ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg Link Link
オタバリの少年探偵たち セシル・デイ＝ルイス The Otterbury Incident Cecil Day-Lewis Link Link
ふしぎの国のアリス ルイス・キャロル Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Link Link
ムギと王さま エリナー・ファージョン The Little Bookroom Eleanor Farjeon Link Link
森は生きている サムイル・ヤコヴレヴィチ・マルシャーク “The Forest is Alive” or “Twelve Months” Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak Link
注文の多い料理店 宮沢賢治 The Restaurant of Many Orders Kenji Miyazawa Link Link
クマのプーさん A・A・ミルン Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne Link Link
日本霊異記 景戒 Nihon Ryōiki Kyokai Link Link
聊斎志異 蒲松齢 Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Pu Songling Link Link
長い長いお医者さんの話 カレル・チャペック Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in For Good Measure Karel Čapek Link
ネギをうえた人 金素雲 The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions Kim So-un Link
ロビンソンクルーソー ダニエル・デフォー Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Link Link
ホビットの冒険 J・R・R・トールキン The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Link Link
西遊記 呉承恩 Journey to the West Wu Cheng’en Link Link
海底二万里 ジュール・ヴェルヌ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Link Link
チポリーノの冒険 ジャンニ・ロダーリ Il Romanzo di Cipollino (The Adventures of the Little Onion) Gianni Rodari Link
宝島 ロバート・ルイス・スチーブンソン Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Link Link
とぶ船 ヒルダ・ルイス、ノーラ・ラヴリン The Ship that Flew Hilda Winifred Lewis Link
たのしい川べ ケネス・グレアム The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Link Link
せむしの子馬 ピョートル・パーヴロウィチ・エルショーフ КОНЕК-ГОРБУНОК (The Little Humpbacked Horse) Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Ershoff) Link Link
まぼろしの白馬 エリザベス・グージ The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge Link Link
バラとゆびわ サッカレー The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray Link Link
キュリー夫人 エリナー・ドーリイ The Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly Link Link
ジェーン・アダムスの生涯 ジャッドソン City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams Clara Ingram Judson Link Link
イワンのばか レフ・トルストイ Ivan the Fool Leo Tolstoy Link Link
ドリトル先生航海記 ヒュー・ロフティング The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Source: 宮崎駿が選んだ50冊の直筆推薦文展.

Unwelcome news: Amanda Craig, knowledgeable Rosemary Sutcliff critic, fired by Times | Specialist children’s book reviewer role abolished

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Writer, journalist, and very knowledgeable Rosemary Sutcliff critic Amanda Craig has lost her job as children’s book reviewer at the Times newspaper. The role is to be brought “in-house”.

“Children’s literature is one of Britain’s greatest national treasures and it’s not something you can hope to cover well in-house,” she told The Bookseller for their article covering her firing.

Around the time of the release of the film The Eagle (of the Ninth) based upon the best-selling The Eagle of the Ninth she wrote about the “rediscovery” of “this great writer”. I am with the comments of living writers reported in the Bookseller:

Neil Gaiman said he was “enormously disappointed” by the decision to lose her, calling her “a perceptive champion of children’s books”. Francesca Simon said Craig had been one of her early champions and called the newspaper “crazy to lose her expertise”.

Let us hope Amanda  moves, as she hopes, to another national “with a more far-sighted vision of how readers are made”.

See here for her Times article