The Adventures of Robin Hood

When it comes down to it, there are approximately 100,000 old-timey children's classic adventure stories. And when it comes down even further past that, I personally prefer their new-timey middle grade counterparts. I like classics. I do. I read a good number of them, and not just to be pretentious.......more

This is an amazing story, but it is so sad at the end. STOP AT CHAPTER 21!!!......more

I have mixed views on this one. Content: Lots of drinking. One chapter of witchcraft. Gore and many deaths. 12+ For the first few chapters, I loved it. Then some where towards the middle, after Robin had killed over a few dozen men, met men in the forest he battled and bruised with and then became fri......more

A retelling very popular in its day. I read it for historical knowledge, and like it better than some, which diverge too far from the source material with unhappy results, but not, I think, as well as Pyle's. It sticks to the source materials, but roves farther than the ballads, including plays and......more

Pure adventure and a wonderful read with the boys. Green knows how to weave together action scenes and each tale causes the reader to lean in and be a part of the story.. There is a reason this is a classic tale. I highly recommend this book as well as Green's "King Arthur and the Knights of the Rou......more