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The Week in Review: June 17-24, 20124 comments

Jenn wrote 11 months ago: Special Events Half-Price Books was holding their massive annual book sale down at the fair grounds … more →

Tags: The Week in Review, Diana Wynne Jones, gail carson levine, Looking For Alibrandi, melina marchetta, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Clancy Brothers, The Week in Review, Tommy Makem

Foreshadowing that whispers and foreshadowing that goes "Thump!"1 comment

Dad Who Writes (Gabriel) wrote 1 year ago: Foreshadowing is that most fundamental of narrative tricks, the suggestion or weaving together of fu … more →

Tags: writing, Books, Craft, Rosemary Sutcliff, Foreshadowing, silver branch, plot point, Resonances, Ironies

Cold till Doom!

Cynthia June Long wrote 1 year ago: With the first cold snap in the Northeast, many of us are whimpering like babies. The Midwest has se … more →

Tags: Weather, Poetry, Celtic Resources, Kuno Meyer, Sean O'Faolain, Irish Poetry, A Cold Night, Four Old-Irish Songs of Summer and Winter, winter

Something New I Will Do

King Jaz wrote 1 year ago: Usually, with me, I start some kind of project (either on my own or with someone) and it never gets … more →

Tags: Books, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, projects, crafts

Books I've Been Reading: The Silver Branch

King Jaz wrote 1 year ago: I have literally just devoured the whole of the book and I cannot begin to express how I feel about … more →

Tags: Books, Romans, The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff, Evil-Emperor

Oblicza Kultury - Trylogia Orzeł! - Rosemary Sutcliff

Anthony wrote 2 years ago: Kolumna ludzi wśród gór posuwała się naprzód jak błyszczący, srebrzysty wąż, cętkowany szkarłatnymi … more →

Tags: Sutcliff Discovery of the Day, The Eagle of the Ninth book, The Lantern Bearers, The Silver Branch

Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic novel The Eagle of the Ninth is now a film: The Eagle

John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru wrote 2 years ago: Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles This is one of the first books I was made (forced) to read at school. … more →

Tags: Young-Adult, Childrens Fiction, Literature, adventure, Book trailer, Historical Fiction, Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff | An Unforgettable Writer of Fantasy and more| Sutcliff Review of the Week1 comment

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer and historical novelist, is “unforgettable” t … more →

Tags: Reviews, Sutcliff Review of the Week, The Eagle of the Ninth, Arthurian, Roman, The Lantern Bearers, Sword at Sunset, children's literature, Historical Fiction

Rosemary Sutcliff book illustrator Charles Keeping | Died May 20 1988 | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day2 comments

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: Charles Keeping illustrated many Rosemary Sutcliff children’s books. He won many book awards   … more →

Tags: Sutcliff Discovery of the Day, charles keeping

Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth and the North-East of England3 comments

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: The Eagle of the Ninth (now a 2010 film) is ‘perhaps’ Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘f … more →

Tags: Frontier Wolf, The Capricorn Bracelet, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Mark of the Horse Lord, Dark & Midddle Ages, Roman, The Lantern Bearers, The Shining Company, Books

The limits of Google translation about Rosemary Sutcliff

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: Trying to make sense of comments made on the previous Spanish post , I am faced with a comment that … more →

Tags: Readers' Review, Children's Books, Historical Fiction

Physicist science fiction fan recommends Rosemary Sutcliff books

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: Today, courtesy of a Google Alert,  I came across an old discussion thread, ‘Is there a war be … more →

Tags: rider of the white horse, Sutcliff Spelling Watch, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, Sword at Sunset, book, Education

El Usurpador del Imperio (The Silver Branch, in Spain)

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: And now I am on the track of Spanish material about Rosemary Sutcliff, I have found this too about T … more →

Tags: book

Teachers Guide for Rosemary Sutcliff

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: Macmillan: Farrar Strauss Giroux, publishers of Rosemary Sutcliff in the USA, have a teacher’s … more →

Tags: Awards, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, The Shining Company, Sword Song, Outcast, Tristan and Iseult, Warrior Scarlet, Education

The Folio Society Editions of two Rosemary Sutcliff historical Roman novels

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: … more →

Tags: The Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff's The Silver Branch | The Folio Society beautiful illustrated edition | Sutcliff re-Discovery of the Day1 comment

Anthony wrote 3 years ago: This beautiful illustration of Little Cullen from Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel, The Silver Branch … more →

Tags: Illustration, Sutcliff Discovery of the Day, The Eagle of the Ninth book, Books, children's literature, Historical Fiction


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