Rosemary Sutcliff did not read until she was about ten. Over at Facebook , Anne McFadgen – thank you Anne – has pointed out recently that it was “because her mother never read down to her that Rosemary Sutcliff made the conscious decision that she wouldn’t learn to read”. Anne quotes from Rosemary Sutcliff’s autobiography of her […]
So, this is one set of arguments for Rosemary Sutcliff having written at least one of the Best Children’s Books of the Last 100 Years – an editorial in the Guardian newspaper (2011). And reasons for contemporary relevance. Rosemary Sutcliff‘s 1954 children’s classic The Eagle of the Ninth (still in print more than 50 years on) is the first […]
So, the Booktrust (“inspiring a love of good books”) uses “a group of children’s book experts drawn from across Booktrust” to create their list of the “100 best books for children” of the last 100 years. There is not one by Rosemary Sutcliff ! I was intrigued to search out the criteria they used. The […]
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 