SOURCE: "The Hero's Woods: Pyle's 'Robin Hood' and the Female Reader," in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter, 1986-87, pp. 197-200.
In the following essay, May argues that Pyle's depiction of the mythical forest in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is inclusive of young female readers, unlike other books for children such as Treasure Island and Peter Pan, where girls are either explicitly left out or serve as young mother figures who perform household duties while the boys have real adventures.
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