Rosemary Sutcliff’s finest books find liberal-minded members of elites wrestling with uncomfortable epochal changes

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 […]

No Rosemary Sutcliff not good enough for top 100 children’s book of last 100 years say Booktrust | Outrageous and wrong!

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 […]