The story of Robin Hood, said Roger Lancelyn Green can never die, nor cease to fire the imagination. Like the old fairy tales it must be told & told again, for it is touched with enchantment. Placing his hero's legendary history in the reign of Richard I of Engl&. Roger Lancelyn Green has used as his sources the ballads, romances & plays, as well as the literary retellings of Noyes, Tennyson, Peacock & Scott. In this literary mosiac he has brought to life a character who is the archetypal outlaw & popular champion of the poor. Walter Crane, one of the masters of children's book illustration, created the drawing for a retelling of the Robin Hood story by Henry Gilbert. published in 1912.