Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

A Tale of Rowan Hood

By: Nancy Springer

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Outlaw Princess of Sherwood is award-winning author Nancy Springer's third delightful tale of Rowan Hood. Her popular adventure novels provide a fresh new vision of the medieval period.

When Princess Ettarde refuses to marry the man her father, King Solon, has chosen for her, she flees to Sherwood Forest and joins Rowan Hood's band of outlaws.

©2003 Nancy Springer (P)2003 Recorded Books

This was an brilliant book

I loved listening to this book! The narrator was amazing and did a wonderful job making each character sound different! I have read and listened too many books by Nancy Springer, and the are all written so well! I highly recommend listening to this series!

A Princess' Trap

Princess Ettarde's father has found her and set up a cage to catch her with *her mother* as bait in the forest. Of course they must save her but saving her is not the end of Etterde's troubles for by running away from a marriage she didn't want and to save her mother she must face that it could mean war and marking herself as a threat to her outlaw band...

If there is one good thing to come out of this adventure it's probably Bow (I'm guessing the name's spelling as I've only listened to the audiobook) who pretends to be a Frankish boy.

(We finally meet a mother who isn't dead, but all our Rowan Hood Band has had shitty fathers - perhaps even Robin Hood, as, well, he didn't know of Rowan's existence for her entire life until the first book!)

Wish I could have shown this book with the ancient writer arguments on the virtues of educated women to myself as a kid in grade school where I heard (yes from a teacher probably when I was 8-10 years old) that "Roman/Greek girls were only educated until early teens/middle school and then married off (with no explanation for the boys in the classroom that they as "eromenos" would have entered a Pederasty relationship with older males the "erastes", although if that was ignorance on the teachers part, or earnestly believing that early teen boys just went into some kind of tutor/philosophy group vs ancient military, who knows now).

I'd have liked to get a ebook/physical copy for notes/highlights and to see if I can back up the claims made on both sides but that's pretty nerdy of me and probably too much work for too little reward now, lol.