 Front cover of first edition | |
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Alan Lee |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel, supernatural fiction, Greek mythology |
| Publisher | Frances Lincoln |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 128 pp[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-7112-0778-3 |
| OCLC | 59341355 |
| 883/.01 | |
| LC Class | BL793.T7 S88 1993[2] |
| Followed by | The Wanderings of Odysseus |
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad is a novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Alan Lee, and published (posthumously) by Frances Lincoln in 1993. Partly based on the Iliad, the book retells the story of the Trojan War, from the birth of Paris to the building of the Trojan Horse. For his part Lee won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.[3]
- ^ "Black ships before Troy" (first edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ^ "Black ships before Troy: the story of the Iliad" (first US edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ (Greenaway Winner 1993) Archived 29 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-08.