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Donald Ewin Cooke (1916–1985)

Författare till Atlas of the Presidents

24+ verk 373 medlemmar 6 recensioner

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Inkluderar namnen: Donald E. Cooke, Donald Edwin Cooke

Inkluderar även: Donald Cooke (2)

Foto taget av: Headstone for Donald E. Cooke (Center section, second from the bottom)

Verk av Donald Ewin Cooke

Atlas of the Presidents (1967) 84 exemplar
Powder Keg (1953) 47 exemplar
The Silver Horn of Robin Hood (1956) 33 exemplar
Our Nation's Great Heritage (1972) 13 exemplar
The Firebird (1939) 9 exemplar
The American Presidents (1970) 9 exemplar
The House That Jack Built (1963) — Författare — 7 exemplar
A race with the wolves (1965) 7 exemplar

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The Arabian Nights (1924) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor184 exemplar
The Peculiar Miss Pickett (1951) — Illustratör — 98 exemplar
Andersen's Fairy Tales (1957) — Illustratör — 33 exemplar

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"The never solved mystery of the raid on Bermuda obtain gun powder for Washington's liberation of Boston in the Revolutionary War is the kernel of fact for this adventure. A rather contrived narrative takes young Tom Rawlins to his older brother's military encampment outside Boston, gets him involved with the high command, including Washington himself. Aware of certain Loyalist sympathies in Bermuda and of Tom's ability as a boy, to take messages without arousing suspicion, the General sends him to Captain Barnaby, alias ""Mr. Harris"". Tom sails with him on his ship for the islands and after the usual amount of stumbling blocks, they drug the governor while a big party is going on and make off with the gun powder."… (mer)
 
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northprairielb | Sep 21, 2021 |
In The Silver Horn of Robin Hood, Donald Cooke weaves together many of the legends surrounding the figure of Robin Hood into a novel for young readers. His goal was to connect the unrelated vignettes into a seamless whole, but the episodic nature of Robin's fabled adventures works against him.

Though no doubt true to the original flavor of the legends, I found this novel a bit more cartoonish than I was expecting. Robin's always ordering up a sumptuous feast, the Sheriff is more a comic figure than a villain, suits o' Lincoln green just magically appear whenever they're needed, the Sheriff's blundering foresters never have the faintest hope of catching the band, and on and on. Though I grew up loving Cooke's Men of Sherwood, this collection was a vague disappointment. I think younger readers would enjoy it more.… (mer)
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atimco | 1 annan recension | Jan 31, 2015 |
A retelling in novelistic form of the Robin Hood stories. This is fairly closely based on the traditional ballads/stories, but the sequel (Men of Sherwood) is more original and continues the adventures of Robin's band into King John's reign leading up to Magna Carta. In its day this book was fairly well-known --I have a notion it won an award --but I am surprised not to have found it in Stephen Knight's encyclopedic review of Robin Hood material.
 
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antiquary | 1 annan recension | Feb 6, 2014 |
Cooke retold the Robin Hood stories in The Silver Horn of Robin Hood, but here he presents Arthur Fitzooth, heir to Robin Hood, summoning the "merry men" to continue the struggle against King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.I recall I liked this as a child.
 
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antiquary | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 17, 2014 |

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Verk
24
Även av
4
Medlemmar
373
Popularitet
#64,664
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
6
ISBN
12
Språk
1

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