Reviews

Robin Hood by Ioan Gruffudd, Joan Gruffudd, Neil Harris, Neil Philip

ainiali's review

4.0

Tho I'd never read a single book about Robin Hood, I'd seen a documentary about him. In the documentary, they discussed about who is the real Robin Hood of Sherwood and there's a lot of theories about it. That alone made me curious about the story so I tried to read the ballad that was retold by Howard Pyle but I cannot truly understand it (que for argument about English not my mother-tongue). However, through this book, I've learned a lot.

I cannot say that this book contains a mere fiction because there's a lot of information about medieval life from who's who, the churches, their houses, how they lived, activities like archery to the crusade that joined by King Richard.

I would recommend this to everyone who's a fan of Robin Hood and children who want to read about Robin Hood because beside reading the fiction (retelling of the ballad), there's a lot of things about history that they can learn.

nairam1173's review

4.0

What an unexpected delight this was!

It's hard to impress me with Robin Hood books, especially ones aimed at younger audiences, not necessarily because they're bad but because I've simply read so many of them it is hard to surprise me.

This is very abbreviated, obviously, but I really enjoyed the voice and the few unique things Neil Philip did with the narrative. I also quite liked the information in the side-panels and the few double-page spreads. Lots of it was old news considering my degree in history and my personal focus on the Middle Ages, but very little of it was inaccurate, though it was obviously quite generalized. There were even a few things I hadn't heard of before.

All in all, really enjoyable.