Daily Telegraph
'Anyone who likes reading poetry aloud will leap on this, and the pictures fit the text perfectly.'
Books for Keeps, September 1999
'Keeping's illustrations are amongst the most powerful images ever to have appeared in children's literature.'
Product Description
Alfred Noyes's famous poem still has the power to thrill us as we read the story of the highwayman and his doomed love for Bess, the landlord's black-eyed daughter. Charles Keeping's stunning illustrations won this book the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1982. The paperback is now reissued with a new cover.
