Howard Pyle's exciting and hilarious tales of Robin Hood and his merry band of Outlaws who reigned over Sherwood Forest doing many good deeds for the poor, and deserved misdeeds for the pompous and haughty rich.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface

Chapter 01: How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw

Chapter 02: Robin Hood and the Tinker

Chapter 03: The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town

Chapter 04: Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions

Chapter 05: Robin Hood Turns Butcher

Chapter 06: Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair

Chapter 07: How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's

Chapter 08: Little John and the Tanner of Blyth

Chapter 09: Robin Hood and Will Scarlet

Chapter 10: The Adventure with Midge the Miller's Son

Chapter 11: Robin Hood and Allan a Dale

Chapter 12: Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar

Chapter 13: Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage

Chapter 14: Robin Hood Aids a Sorrowful Knight

Chapter 15: How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts

Chapter 16: Little John Turns Barefoot Friar

Chapter 17: Robin Hood Turns Beggar

Chapter 18: Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor

Chapter 19: The Chase of Robin Hood

Chapter 20: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne

Chapter 21: King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest

Epilogue

Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware. From the time he was a very small boy he loved pictures, especially the pictures in storybooks. Among his favorites were Grimm’s German Fairy Tales and Arabian Nights.

At the age of twenty-one, Pyle began to contribute illustrations and fables to St. Nicholas magazine and later went on to write and illustrate books for children. His first was The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in 1883. Many more books followed. He also taught illustration at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and later set up his own art school in Wilmington. He died on November 9, 1911, in Florence, Italy.