Check Out Robin Hood Produced By Edith Heal Compiled As Hardbound

really love this version of the Robin Hood myth, because it changes how we normally see the myth, Edith Heal did a marvelous job on this book, and I recommend it for any one who loves Robin Hood, This book is one of my most treasured possessions, When I left my elementary school almost twenty years ago, I begged the school librarian to let me keep it, She understood, as I did, that apage book published in, with only a few woodcut illustrations, was not likely to capture the interest of the averageyearold, Ms Heal has taken all the myths, tales, and ballads about Robin Hood and woven them into a single, easy tale, told in pseudoElizabethan English, Robin, inspired by his boyhood heroes Hereward the Saxon outlaw and Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury chooses a life of poking fun at the Norman lords who treat the Saxon natives of England as their inferiors, but shuns violence, and dreams of a day when Normans and Saxons will become a single race called English.
Robin revels in mockery and practical jokes, but loses his temper easily when the joke is turned on him, He is a deeply religious man whose love for the wild young lady Marian FitzWalter borders almost on the paternal, Marian, on the other hand, clearly idolises the outlaw hero with something of a teenage crush, The two share banter, but little more, Robin's main enemies are the Sheriff of Nottingham, the Bishop

of Hereford, Prince John, and the crafty Sir Guy of Gisbourne, who plots to wed his pathetic son Geoffrey to Marian.
Sherwood Forest is an idealised utopia, where the outlaws have fun all day long in an England where it never rains, and share a deep bond of brotherly love which in places borders on the homoerotic.
The story follows Robin from his boyhood to travels in France to the founding of the outlaw band and even to his own death, which is a part of the legend which doesn't tend to make it into the movies.
Ms Heal manages to evoke the twelfth century in a way that is both colourful and as comfortable as an old armchair, If you enjoy the tales of Robin Hood and can lay hands on a copy of this book, it is definitely worth a read, A retelling of the Robin Hood legend with woodblock and colour plate illustrations, .