# Children's "Robin Hood", probably 60's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-robin-hood-probably-60s/363142 "2006-07-04T06:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-robin-hood-probably-60s/363142/1 "2006-07-04T06:30:39Z")
If the Dope can’t do it… Okay, Google is NOT my friend. I’ve been looking for this one awhile. It’s a large, thin book, probably late Fifties/early Sixties and it includes Robin Hood as a character. It’s told from the point of view of a young boy. All I really remember is that he had a pet jackdaw. We had it in the school library in the late Sixties/early Seventies, but by the time my boys started school in the Nintries, it had disappeared. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-robin-hood-probably-60s/363142/2 "2006-07-04T21:52:53Z")
Was th protagonist named Dickon? If so, it sounds like **Bows Against The Barons** , which was written in 1934 {and I believe revised in the 50’s} by the late Geoffrey Trease, an excellent - and prolific - children’s historical author. If it isn’t still in print, it’s probably easy to pick up a good used copy: I used to have a lot of his books when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-robin-hood-probably-60s/363142/3 "2006-07-05T02:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=Case Sensitive] Was th protagonist named Dickon? If so, it sounds like **Bows Against The Barons** , which was written in 1934 {and I believe revised in the 50’s} by the late Geoffrey Trease, an excellent - and prolific - children’s historical author. If it isn’t still in print, it’s probably easy to pick up a good used copy: I used to have a lot of his books when I was a kid. [/QUOTE] If I could find a copy of Bows, I’d be a happy little camper indeed. My school library had it and I just about wore it out. No, this is for younger kids. It’s a thin book and about 12" or so high with hard covers. I just barely remember it although I’m sure on the jackdaw. It’s a little possible that it may have had other stories in it besides the Robin Hood one. It would have been published prior to '72 and likely earlier than '66.