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)

Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.