Six Stories About Robin Hood

The first and last stories are essentially direct adaptions. The others are original. These are for my nephews but also I am proud of them and want to share. See also my Odysseus stories.[Placeholder for image]Robin Hood and the Beggar KnightOne day, a knight came to Sherwood Forest, a dense and wild place in the heart of England. Though it was surrounded by farmland and towns and roads, a king long ago had declared it his personal property, and jealously denied it to all the people who relied on it. The villages that surrounded it were forbidden from taking wood for their fires, from hunting or fishing for food, or any of the other carefully managed industries that relied on the trees and animals of Sherwood. The spring after the king made his decree, he came to the forest and spent a week hunting deer before returning to his castle in London. Though the royal family never returned to Sherwood Forest, they continued to outlaw all use of the place by others. Over the years, it grew…