Eleanor Graham Vance (1908–1985)

What a fine score for my collection! Beautifully illustrated first edition hardback full of loving advice about how grandmas and children can enjoy projects to make and do. The page about decorating Easter eggs has a tape mark, which is too bad. But it makes me think someone used the book to try out the project, thereby making this collectible edition even more adorable. The Seventies were a simpler and gentler time than today's super connected world, but this book so reminds me of the D I Y movement. The more things change, the more they stay the same.… (meer)

Probably the first retelling of Robin Hood I knew, though I remember the Howard Pyle version better. This is a reasonably straightforward retelling of the traditional stories following an opening story about Robin and Marion practicing archery with Robin's father. I note the version of the Sir Richard atte Lee story (which goes back to the Geste of Robin Hoodf) omits the role of the Virgin Mary as guarantor of the loan to the knight. The rouges who unwillingly repay it double are just friends of the sherif, not monksf. The story closes with Robin's pardon by the king, omitting his death.… (meer)