Keeping's provocative, emotional, stylized ink drawings for a handsome 11¼" x 8⅜" edition of Noyes' lyric poem overshadow any other edition. Available for the first time in the U.S., this edition won the 1981 British Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration. A haunting presentation of the tragic tale of the captive woman who takes her own life in an attempt to warn her lover of the trap set for him by the King's men. (Age 9 and older)

And the highwayman came riding-- riding-- riding-- up to the old inn door. Thus begins this suspenceful poem about a charismatic robber, the innkeeper's daughter who loves him, the regiment that comes to trap him, and the tragedy awaiting the lovers. Keeping's illustrations of Alfred Noyes tale are heart-breakingly beautiful.