The Island Sunrise: Prehistoric Britain

by Jill Paton Walsh

71 b&w illustrations in the text & 8 full page color illustrations. Focus on prehistoric Britain, Walsh demonstrates her admiration for these early peoples & how much is owed to the countless generations who first inhabited the British Isles. Bibliography. Index.

Genres: History

128 pages, Hardcover

First published September 11, 1975

About the author

Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School.

Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1976 for Unleaving; The Universe Prize, 1984 for A Parcel of Patterns; and the Smarties Grand Prix, 1984, for Gaffer Samson's Luck.

Series:
* Imogen Quy
* Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Walsh writes in many fields, one of them young adult. Although this is not a book explicitly written for a younger market, Walsh's exposition is clear and personable enough to be readily absorbed by children--as well as by virtual neophytes like myself.

Appendices on the Indo-European language hypothesis and on Carbon-14 dating are clear and relevant to the text.