Song of Robin Hood

Song of Robin Hood

Book - 2000

Words and music of the original Robin Hood ballads.

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Subjects
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Ballads, English.
Folk songs, English.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin Co [2000?], c1975.
Language
English
Other Authors
Anne Burnett Malcolmson, 1910- (-), Grace Castagnetta, 1909-1996
Item Description
Art techniques used: Ornate black and white scratchboard illustrations resembling wood engravings. Images have a medieval style, not least in the elaborately decorated border illustration.
Includes glossary.
Illustrated lining papers.
For voice and piano.
Physical Description
123 p. : ill., music ; 29 cm
Awards
Caldecott Honor Book, 1948.
ISBN
9780618071869
  • I. Robin Hood and Little John
  • II. Robin Hood and the Stranger
  • III. Robin Hood and the Tanner
  • IV. Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
  • V. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
  • VI. Robin Hood and Allen A Dale
  • VII. Robin Hood and Maid Marian
  • VIII. Robin Hood and the Bishop
  • IX. Robin Hood and the Butcher
  • X. Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar
  • XI. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  • XII. Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
  • XIII. Robin Hood and the Ranger
  • XIV. Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
  • XV. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  • XVI. Robin Hood's Golden Prize
  • XVII. Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
  • XVIII. Robin Hood's Death
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Fans of Sherwood Forest and admirers of the book arts will want to see Virginia Lee Burton's design and illustrations for Song of Robin Hood, edited by Anne Malcolmson, music arranged by Grace Castagnetta. First published in 1947 and now reissued, the Caldecott Honor-winning book contains 18 classic ballads of Robin Hood's deeds, set to traditional tunes and arranged with modern musical notations. Burton supplies a lapidary sequence of intricately detailed black-and-white vignettes, one for each stanza of the different ballads; her chapter openers and borders have the delicacy of scrimshaw carvings and the robustness of illuminated manuscripts. (Houghton, $20 128p ages 8-up ISBN 0-618-07186-5; Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Horn Book Review

A Caldecott Honor book, this collection of fifteen Robin Hood ballads is an example of superb bookmaking. Burton's pen-and-ink and scratchboard illustrations took three years to produce, and the level of detail she achieved is truly astonishing. While the number of children who will appreciate this book is small, anyone who loves the book as a physical object will need to add this amazing reissue to his or her collection. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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