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Robin Hood and His Merry Men
Robin Hood 15 is declared an outlaw after being tricked into shooting one of the king's deer. He flees into Sherwood Forest, joins the band with Little John and Will Scarlet to save land and money for poor, the good Sir Richard of Lee, and outwit the rich, such as the greedy Sheriff of Nottingham. Seven chapters illustrated, with humor, action, 2-pg definitions.
- GenresClassics
42 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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Jane Louise Curry
40 books30 followersJane Louise Curry was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, on September 24, 1932. She is the daughter of William Jack Curry Jr. and Helen Margaret Curry. Curry grew up in Pennsylvania (Kittanning and Johnstown), but upon her graduation from college she moved to Los Angeles, California, and London, England.
Curry attended the Pennsylvania State University in 1950, and she studied there until 1951 when she left for the Indiana State College (now known as Indiana University of Pennsylvania). In 1954, after graduation, Curry moved to California and worked as both an art teacher for the Los Angeles Public School District and a freelance artist. In 1957, Curry entered the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in order to study English literature, but in 1959 she left Los Angeles and became a teaching assistant at Stanford University. Curry was awarded the Fulbright grant in 1961 and the Stanford-Leverhulme fellowship in 1965, allowing her to pursue her graduate studies at the University of London. She earned her M.A. in 1962 and her Ph.D. in medieval English literature from Stanford University in 1969. From 1967-1968 and, again, from 1983-1984, Curry was an instructor of English literature at the college level. She became a lecturer in 1987. Besides her writings, Curry’s artworks are also considered among her achievements. She has had several paintings exhibited in London, and her works have even earned her a spot in the prestigious Royal Society of British Artists group exhibition. Among the many groups that Curry belongs to are the International Arthurian Society, the Authors Guild, the Children’s Literature Association, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers.
Curry illustrated and published her first book Down from the Lonely Mountain in 1965. This juvenile fiction based on Californian Native American folklore has paved the way for Curry’s expansive literary career. She has penned more than 30 novels, which are mostly based on child characters dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Many of Curry’s writings deal with folklore, such as the Native American folklore that she explores in her novels Turtle Island: Tales of Algonquian Nations and The Wonderful Sky Boat: And Other Native American Tales of the Southeast, and the retellings of famous European folk stories, such as Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Robin Hood in the Greenwood, and The Christmas Knight. Yet she also delves into the genres of fantasy, such as in her novels Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Time and Me, Myself, and I; historical fiction, such as in her novels What the Dickens and Stolen Life; and mystery, such as in her novels The Bassumtyte Treasure and Moon Window.
Curry has been honored with many awards throughout her writing career. In 1970, her novel The Daybreakers earned Curry the Honor Book award from the Book World Spring Children’s Book Festival and the Outstanding Book by a Southern California Author Award from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People. The Mystery Writers of America honored Curry two years in a row by awarding her the Edgar Allan Poe Award, or the Edgar, for Poor Tom’s Ghost in 1978 and The Bassumtyte Treasure in 1979. Also in 1979, for her complete body of work at that time, the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People presented Curry with the Distingushed Contribution to the Field of Children’s Literature Award.
Curry resides in Palo Alto, California, and London, England.
Curry attended the Pennsylvania State University in 1950, and she studied there until 1951 when she left for the Indiana State College (now known as Indiana University of Pennsylvania). In 1954, after graduation, Curry moved to California and worked as both an art teacher for the Los Angeles Public School District and a freelance artist. In 1957, Curry entered the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in order to study English literature, but in 1959 she left Los Angeles and became a teaching assistant at Stanford University. Curry was awarded the Fulbright grant in 1961 and the Stanford-Leverhulme fellowship in 1965, allowing her to pursue her graduate studies at the University of London. She earned her M.A. in 1962 and her Ph.D. in medieval English literature from Stanford University in 1969. From 1967-1968 and, again, from 1983-1984, Curry was an instructor of English literature at the college level. She became a lecturer in 1987. Besides her writings, Curry’s artworks are also considered among her achievements. She has had several paintings exhibited in London, and her works have even earned her a spot in the prestigious Royal Society of British Artists group exhibition. Among the many groups that Curry belongs to are the International Arthurian Society, the Authors Guild, the Children’s Literature Association, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers.
Curry illustrated and published her first book Down from the Lonely Mountain in 1965. This juvenile fiction based on Californian Native American folklore has paved the way for Curry’s expansive literary career. She has penned more than 30 novels, which are mostly based on child characters dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Many of Curry’s writings deal with folklore, such as the Native American folklore that she explores in her novels Turtle Island: Tales of Algonquian Nations and The Wonderful Sky Boat: And Other Native American Tales of the Southeast, and the retellings of famous European folk stories, such as Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Robin Hood in the Greenwood, and The Christmas Knight. Yet she also delves into the genres of fantasy, such as in her novels Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Time and Me, Myself, and I; historical fiction, such as in her novels What the Dickens and Stolen Life; and mystery, such as in her novels The Bassumtyte Treasure and Moon Window.
Curry has been honored with many awards throughout her writing career. In 1970, her novel The Daybreakers earned Curry the Honor Book award from the Book World Spring Children’s Book Festival and the Outstanding Book by a Southern California Author Award from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People. The Mystery Writers of America honored Curry two years in a row by awarding her the Edgar Allan Poe Award, or the Edgar, for Poor Tom’s Ghost in 1978 and The Bassumtyte Treasure in 1979. Also in 1979, for her complete body of work at that time, the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People presented Curry with the Distingushed Contribution to the Field of Children’s Literature Award.
Curry resides in Palo Alto, California, and London, England.
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June 5, 2022
Beautiful pictures nice writing
October 30, 2024
*See my review of Robin Hood in the Greenwood for my thoughts on both it and this one.
November 17, 2014
In fine full page shaded gray, a handsome hero draws his long bow, wields a mighty staff, counts coins. Not to be taken straight, in sewn together tales, a boy grows into a man. Anything about Sherwood catches me in a web gladly.
Robin Hood 15, loved "like a son" p 1 by his uncle Sir George Gamwell, flees after six foresters dare him to prove archery skill on a distant hart, knowing the royal deer can stamp a death sentence. His "cheeks grew red with anger" p 3, impulsive rash reaction the boy never grows out of, repeatedly gets him into trouble. Meeting John Little, he again "grew red in the face" p 8.
Glossed over in a few phrases, he fast leads the "merry" men. Repeating "merry" makes them so. What could be a cold wet harsh bare existence is somehow always "merry". "We will give you a fine yew bow and a merry life. And every year a good suit of Lincoln green" p 10. From where?
The gang outwit the rich to clothe the poor, polite, applying "rules to this robbing" p 21, cheering up a passerby with a feast and new clothes, cloth for "his wife" p 25. Gloomy Sir Richard of Lee needs £400 to redeem his mortgage from greedy abbot of St Mary's Abbey. Miraculously he will repay the large sum in exactly a year. Skip across improbable, unlikely, allow for happy ending no matter what the intermediate.
Robin Hood 15, loved "like a son" p 1 by his uncle Sir George Gamwell, flees after six foresters dare him to prove archery skill on a distant hart, knowing the royal deer can stamp a death sentence. His "cheeks grew red with anger" p 3, impulsive rash reaction the boy never grows out of, repeatedly gets him into trouble. Meeting John Little, he again "grew red in the face" p 8.
Glossed over in a few phrases, he fast leads the "merry" men. Repeating "merry" makes them so. What could be a cold wet harsh bare existence is somehow always "merry". "We will give you a fine yew bow and a merry life. And every year a good suit of Lincoln green" p 10. From where?
The gang outwit the rich to clothe the poor, polite, applying "rules to this robbing" p 21, cheering up a passerby with a feast and new clothes, cloth for "his wife" p 25. Gloomy Sir Richard of Lee needs £400 to redeem his mortgage from greedy abbot of St Mary's Abbey. Miraculously he will repay the large sum in exactly a year. Skip across improbable, unlikely, allow for happy ending no matter what the intermediate.
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