A review by dutchlee
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

5.0

I loved Robin Hood! While there is not one original Robin Hood story, Roger Green looked at all the literature that Robin Hood appears in and combined them into a book, with each chapter a different adventure. I was surprised at how much there is about Robin Hood once it all gets compiled together. I thought the only story was the one made into the Disney Robin Hood movie, with the other Robin Hood movies mere spin-offs. This book, however tells of 24 stories detailing how he became the outlaw Robin Hood, how his companions joined him, how he and Maid Marian met and what became of them, and all the heroic deeds Robin Hood and his companions did. The stories are short (about 15 pages/chapter) and contain lots of humor and varying adventures in them. This is a great novel and I think many of these chapters can also be read to children.