Children's books studies

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.

Significant

• Basdeo, Stephen. 'Radical Medievalism: Pierce Egan the Younger's Robin Hood, Wat Tyler, and Adam Bell', Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, vol. 15 (2016), pp. 48-64
• Blamires, David. 'Maid Marian in Twentieth-century Children's Books', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Bandit Territories: British Outlaw Traditions (Cardiff, 2008), pp. 44-57
• Cohoon, Lorinda B. 'Transgressive Transformations: Representations of Maid Marian in Robin Hood Retellings', The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 31 (2007), pp. 209-31
• Couch, Julie Nelson. 'Childe Hood: The Infantilization of Medieval Legend', In Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies, vol. I (1999), pp. 127-44
• Evans, Michael R. 'A Song of Freedom": Geoffrey Trease's Bows against the Barons', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 188-96
• Griffy, Henry. 'The Work of Robin Hood Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 123-37
• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 58-61. Excellent discussion of children's literature on Robin Hood
• Gaylord, Alan T. '"There was something about him that spoke of other things than rags and tatters": Howard Pyle and the Language of Robin Hood', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 153-73
• Johnson, Valerie B. The Legend of Robin Hood: From Medieval Ballad to Modern Novel (unpublished B.A. honors thesis; Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College, 2002)
• Johnson, Valerie B. ‘Exempt me Sire, for I am afeared of women’: Contemporary Romance Novels and the Robin Hood Tradition (unpublished Master’s Essay; Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester, 2006)
• Lux, Sherron. 'Picturing Marian: Illustrations of Maid Marian in Juvenile Fiction', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 197-208
• May, Jill. 'Robin Hood's Home Away from Home: Howard Pyle and His Art Students', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 138-52.

Also worthwhile

• Wooden, Warren W. 'Early English Children's Literature', Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 5 (1980), pp. 12-14. Summarizes papers read at the 14th International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Medieval Institute and held on the campus of Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo, 3-6 May 1979, including, on pp. 12-13, a paper entitled 'Robin Hood and the Invention of Children's Literature' read by Bennett A. Brockman of the University of Connecticut.

Brief mention

• Emery, H.G. 'Robin Hood Romances', Notes & Queries, Series 11, vol. VIII (1913), p. 297.

Juvenile