I liked this book because it is at my reading level. The Adventures of Robin Hood is my kind of book because it has adventure like when Robin is always fighting against the king's and sheriffs men. I especially like the description in Robin's fight with Guy of Gisbourne. I also enjoyed all the shooting contests and match that Robin always won. The only parts I didn't like out of this book when Robin misses the target with King Richard just because his arrow had a torn feather on the end that ...
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Summary: For many years everyone stayed in the king’s service except Little John and Will Scarlet who returned home. After many long years Robin returned home after King Richard died with the new kings approval to quickly visit home. So he returned to the Sherwood forest and blew his bugle horn three times and everyone came back to the great oak tree were they swore to never go again and feast and live Sherwood forest. Which the king angry but they the rest of their days merrily in the wood...
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Summary: King Henry dies and good King Richard takes the throne. Robin passes by a fierce-looking and says Hello friend, the stranger gets mad and says he is Guy of Gisbourne the mass murdered coming to take Robin Hood into custody. Robin Hood challenges the stranger to the shooting contest and wins. Then deflects Guy of Gisbourne’s sword and kills him. Then King Richard comes to town and through Robin Hood’s territory so robin makes him pay thinking he’s a friar and invites him to feas...
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Summary: Robin’s band goes home happily and the Bishop tells the king to kill Robin. Robin stops at an Inn and Richard Partington saves his life again by telling the king’s men he went other and Robin promises he’ll rewarded him. Robin is going home then he whistles with a bird and the kings men shoot arrows at him and runs away and finds his friend Sir Richard of the Lea. Who tells him there is traps everywhere and should go back and ask the queen for safety, the queen pities him and g...
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 Summary: Robins band keeps stealing from the rich and giving to the poor and one day the queens page Richard Partington invites Robin Hood to a shooting contest in Finsbury Fields so he agrees and they go. The queen bets to the kings that Robin Hood, Will Scarlet, Little John and Alan-a-Dale can beat his archers so he agrees and contest starts. The queens team starts out shaky but wins in the end by Robin Hood’s awesome shooting and he humbly declines the prizes. The king becomes inflamed ...
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Summary: The band of outlaws decides to get Ellen and Allan-a-Dale married that day so Robin dressed like a harpist in colourful clothes then the bride and groom come and the Robin doesn’t play but unmasks himself and says that Ellen will marry Alan not Sir Stephen their father disagree but Robin’s men leap from their hiding places and the friar marries together Ellen and Alan and make her dad give them a blessing then steals the bishop’s expensive finery and gives the heavy gold neckla...
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Summary: Robin took his best men except Will Stutely and armoured himself and took and a good broadsword and went out to seek the Friar of Fountain of Abbey. He found a fat man at resting under a tree which he asked for wine and he gave it to him, drank it and asked him to it take him across the river to find the Friar. The friar agreed and took him across then threatened to kill him if take back so he did and on the way stole the Friar’s sword then made the Friar take him across. Half way ...

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Summary: Robin was stiff from his drubbing by Will Scarlet and his band was getting poor and hungry. So they set out to find a rich man with a fat purse to take his money but instead they found poor Alan-a-Dale who’s beloved girlfriend is going to be forcefully married to an old man. So they befriended him and give him a feast and promise to get him married to his girlfriend and he gratefully joins them.

Main Character: Alan-a-Dale: He has developed a lot because he started broken, sad civi...
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Summary: Robin, Little John and the tanner Arthur-a-Bland were lying on the grass to rest when a young man approached with silk stockings, a handsome sword and a large feather on his hat while smelling a yellow flower. Robin got in his way so he couldn’t pass so the stranger pulled his fine sword talked boldly and Robin insulted him and told him, to get a staff from near by thicket so he a tree right from the ground and beat Robin Hood and was going to fight the others but instead Robin Hoo...
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Summary: After almost a year of relaxing and feasting and stealing here and there Robin grew bored. so one day he was walking down a byway and met a butcher which he paid handsomely for everything he had. Then set-up the small butcher shop in the middle of town and sold all the meat for low prices. Then befriended the sheriff and told him that he would offer him three hundred gold and silver for all of the horned beasts Robin said had. So road out to the king’s deer and tricked the sheriff ...
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Summary: The sheriff had failed to stop Robin and his band many times before so he sent out three hundred men into the forest to catch them. But they dressed in friar’s robes and covered their faces. Then when the sheriff’s men came to find them they pasted right by them but they caught a member of the ban Will Stutely and were going to hang him the next day. So Robin Hood swore he wouldn’t be hung tomorrow and Robin and his men snuck into the town as the sheriff blew a bugle saying tha...
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Summary: The Sheriff of Nottingham sends out messengers to hunt robin for prize and they go as far as the Blue Boar. One of the messengers asks a tinker to find Robin Hood for him and he agreed so the next morning he finds him and Robin gets the tinker to have some ale with him then tricks the tinker into getting drunk and falling asleep. Then takes the warrant from, pays the innkeeper and leaves. They meet again and tinker attacks him and he fights back well but then his staff breaks and ...

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Summary: Robin a lad of eighteen was heading to the archer’s contest when he passed by some foresters who taunted him and bet he could hit one of the kings deer. Robin dropped the finest stag and the forester refuse to pay and threatened to kill him if he didn’t leave. Then he almost shot robin so robin turned shot him dead. He felt horrible for doing it but then set off into forest with his future set. Then Robin hid in the forest along with other people trying to hide from oppression. A...
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Book Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood

Author: Howard Pyle

Genre: Adventure, Retellings, Medieval Folklore for young adults
 

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