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	Robin McKinley’s Fairytales
		Robin McKinley’s retellings of classic fairytales give the characters and the tales themselves new life by strengthening the protagonists’ personalities and giving them wills of their own outside those allotted by the traditional tales.
		McKinley’s open reference to the sisters’ arrogance in the earlier tale makes it clear that she is acknowledging, and discarding, those prior attributes in favor of the kinder, more humane and sisterly traits she gives her characters.
		McKinley gives her King a motive pursuing his daughters’ secret; he believes, from watching the Princesses’ somber behavior and from consultation with the wise men of the land, that the Princesses are enchanted and forced to attend the dances against their will.
	www.toyingwithfate.com /~becca/fairytales.html (2870 words)

	"Girls Who Do Things"
		In her novels of fairy tale/fantasy fiction for young readers, Robin McKinley not only emphasizes the values found in most fantasy fiction, courage and honor, she also makes an important contribution to balancing gender roles in young adult fiction and portraying female characters who are both physically strong and smart and courageous.
		Robin McKinley began her writing career with the publication of Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978) and The Door in the Hedge (1981), a collection of short stories.
		McKinley includes an unusual moral twist in the story by providing Aerin with two lovers -- one is her mortal husband Tor, who makes her queen of Damar; the other is the magician Luthe, who waits patiently for her to live with him after Tor's death, since they are both immortal.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/fall96/f96-08-Sanders.html (2883 words)

	The Hero and the Crown
		However, McKinley’s protagonist is a young woman fighting for her place in her father’s court and her war horse is her father’s old, lame horse.
		McKinley’s book prods the limits of one’s imagination, constantly urging the reader to believe and to accompany Aerin on her self-proclaimed quests as she rises to her position of hero, a hero who saves not only her City, but also the legendary, but long-lost, hero’s crown.
		Robin McKinley was born Jennifer Robin Carolyn McKinley on the 16th of November, 1952.
	faculty.salisbury.edu /~elbond/hero.htm (1368 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Robin McKinley
		McKinley never promises a perfect world; what she does give her characters is the chance to choose fate.
		McKinley seems to do an excellent job of taking legends and turning them into humans with families, friends, worries, and dreams all their own.
		It departs from the usual expectations that Robin Hood is a great archer (he's pretty bad- sometimes he just gets lucky), that Marion is a passive victim (she's the best planner in the lot), and that living in the woods is romantic (somebody has to dig latrines and tend cookfires).
	members.fortunecity.com /arwen_e/pz/robinm.html (1314 words)

	The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley -- Robin Hood Spotlight of the Month
		Robin even tells one of his outlaw band: "you pass the basic requirement, which is to be a better archer than your leader...
		But Robin's inability to split a willow wand or opponent's arrow at ludicrous distances is not the most important change in Robin's character or the biggest example of him being an ordinary hero.
		In several of Marian's earliest appearances in the Robin Hood legend, she is a very capable archer and huntswoman.
	www.boldoutlaw.com /robspot/0902.html (1263 words)

	Robin McKinley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robin McKinley (born November 16, 1952 as Jennifer Carolyn Robin Turrell McKinley) is a fantasy author especially known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel The Hero and the Crown.
		She has also won a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, the Mythopoeic Award for Sunshine, the World Fantasy Award for Imaginary Lands, and the 1998 Phoenix Award honor book for Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast.
		Robin McKinley grew up an only child with a military father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robin_McKinley (197 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
		I’ve been a Robin McKinley fan since her 1985 Newbery-Award winning YA novel The Hero and the Crown, but Sunshine is far from her best work.
		McKinley is a master at creating an atmospheric sense of dread — you feel Sunshine’s abject fear keenly, even when she’s cracking jokes to keep from going mad (Con could have a great future in the theater, she muses during one tense moment, so long as no one expected him to do matinees).
		McKinley excels at world-building, and she easily convinces the reader to accept a realm in which charms and wards are accepted means of protection for your car or house, and vampires control a dangerous percentage of the computer “Globenet.” Unfortunately, her fascination with the world she’s created slows the story’s momentum.
	www.theromancereader.com /mckinley-sunshine.html (891 words)

	Book review: The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley (Fiction)
		As Robin McKinley hints in her Afterword, she has taken many elements associated with the Robin Hood legend to turn him into a hero for today—which makes him reluctant, pragmatic, and prosaic.
		You're a pessimist and a good planner." While McKinley states that she tried to be "historically unembarrassing," on occasion language fails her, as when one character mentions what Robin is "going through," as though they are stock characters in a daytime drama.
		McKinley reduces Robin to what he really may have been at one time—a real human (or combination of humans) who, like a rock collects snow as it rolls downhill, has collected a variety of improbable elements as he passes through time.
	www.slywy.com /bookreviews/outlaws.html (845 words)

	Robin McKinley: Sunshine
		Robin McKinley is supposed to write comfort books, the kind you read to pieces and keep under the bed for when you're sick.
		McKinley's vampires aren't melancholy insomniacs with super-powers; they're strange and inhuman, and they seem all the more alien among a close-knit community with its jokes and habits and running arguments.
		McKinley has written ripsnorting adventure, she has written gothic romance, she has written dark and brooding fantasy about wounded people, but there has always been a certain gentility to her writing.
	www.epiphyte.net /SF/sunshine.html (779 words)

	Books by Robin McKinley
		Robin McKinley, Newbery Award-winning author of The Hero and the Crown, brings to life the classic tale of Robin Hood and reveals the legendary characters as they must have been: flesh and blood outlaws who risked the gallows and the sword for the sake of justice.
		Robin McKinley, award-winning author of The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword has woven a brilliant retelling of the Robin Hood myth, featuring all the well-loved characters.
		I've never even been particuarly interested in the Robin Hood legend and so it was quite a surprised to discover myself being drawn to the the lifelike, humorous characters who like all McKinley creations are somehow down to earth despite their extraordinary situations.
	www.gel.com.au /koala/robin.htm (5723 words)

	Robin McKinley, Deerskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Robin McKinley"s author's note, she explains that Deerskin is based on a fairy tale by 17th century French writer Charles Perrault.
		The obsessive king's advisors are repulsed by his proposition to marry his own daughter, but --- rather than attempt to rescue the young girl -- they assume that Lissar must have cast a spell on her father to cause this insanity.
		McKinley follows Perrault's pattern with the devastatingly brutal rape scene, but Deerskin is ultimately a story of hope and renewal, a love story between a woman and her dog.
	www.rambles.net /mckinley_deerskin.html (627 words)

	Robin McKinley -- Interviews in Sherwood
		Robin McKinley has written several critically-acclaimed fantasy novels, among the best known are The Blue Sword (1983), The Hero and the Crown (1985 -- a Newbery award-winner), Rose Daughter (1988) and Spindle's End (2000).
		Robin Hood is also a dream of being the kind of grown up you're already pretty sure at heart you're not going to be, partly because there aren't any forests left that are suitable for it, but partly because you're uneasily aware of being successfully indoctrinated into the system.
		The Robin Hood I grew up with was Howard Pyle's, and the big thing I had against it is that all the merry men seemed to be extraordinarily tall, extraordinarily clever, extraordinarily brave, extraordinarily good at everything.
	www.boldoutlaw.com /robint/mckinley1.html (2345 words)

	Amazon.ca: Outlaws Of Sherwood: Books: Robin Mckinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She renders it anew by fully developing the background and motive of each member of the merry band, from Robin's "crime" that sends him into the woods, to Marian's subterfuge as she straddles the worlds of the nobility and of the outlaws.
		Their habitations, foresting and thieving is explained, and McKinley, in a thoughtful afterword, reveals both her debt to and her differences with previous versions of the story.
		Robin and the rest of his characters come alive with three-dimensional personalities: principled, flawed, inspirational, strong, subtle; they are fueled by the ideals of youth and the strength of conviction.
	www.amazon.ca /Outlaws-Sherwood-Robin-Mckinley/dp/0441644511 (1286 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > Robin McKinley
		Robin McKinley presents us with another of her wonderful fairy-tale retellings; this time it's Sleeping Beauty.
		I've been a fan of McKinley for ages: her simple, dreamy prose evokes a wonderful feeling of character and place, and many of her heroines are the kind of down to earth sensible sorts one would like as a big sister, as well as being heroic champions.
		McKinley's trademark dreamlike prose, used here in a kind of stream of consciousness narrative, gradually paints a picture of an ever-more fantastic world, and a very human protagonist caught up in events out of her control.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/m/mckinley.htm (1597 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Stone Fey
		Robin McKinley was born in 1952 in Warren, Ohio.
		But if you actually pick it up and read it, and allow yourself to fall into the watercolour world of the illustrations, you will find that it is not exactly the kind of story most parents read to their children -- at least not nowadays.
		For what Robin McKinley has given us with this tale is a return to the old world of storytelling; when the cautionary tales told around the hearth fires entertained the children on one level, while they spoke to the hearts of the older folks on another.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/ston53.htm (772 words)

	Review: Robin Mckinley's Sunshine, reviewed by Erin Donahoe
		McKinley has maintained her incredible knack for descriptive language and fully, at times too fully, fleshes out the world she's created.
		One of the flaws in McKinley's book is that readers have seen many of the same issues she raises in this novel worked through with satisfactory conflicts and resolutions in these other series, a result which is much more difficult to achieve in a single book.
		Actually, McKinley's novel works so hard at creating this world and these conflicts, and leaves so much unfinished, unexplored, or unresolved, that it makes the book seem as if it should be the first of a series, while McKinley has said she has no plans for a sequel.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040126/sunshine.shtml (1017 words)

	Spindle's End Study Guide by Robin McKinley: About the Author
		Robin McKinley was born Jennifer Robin Carolyn McKinley on November 16, 1952 in Warren, Ohio.
		McKinley's father was in the Navy, so she grew up traveling— and reading.
		McKinley influences and experiences can be seen in her work: her main characters are invariably strong, moral and heroic young women with a fondness for horses and dogs.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-spindles-end/abouttheauthor.html (165 words)

	Robin McKinley
		McKinley is now residing in England and does receive a good amount of mail, so although she usually responds, it takes a few months.
		Robin McKinley's full name is Jennifer Robin Carolyn McKinley, and she was born November 16, 1952 in her mother's hometown of Warren, Ohio.
		As far as her writing goes, McKinley describes herself as a "scribe" and "Damar's historian", because the stories "happen to her" and she is only responsible for writing them down.
	ofb.net /~damien/mckinley/McKinley.html (625 words)

	SciFan: Books: Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		McKinley understands that nothing ever turns out exactly as hoped, and that a little sorrow makes life's triumphs that much sweeter.
		Renowned fantasy writer Robin McKinley, author of the lush "Beauty and the Beast" retellings Beauty and Rose Daughter, has produced another re-mastered fairy tale, this time about the dreamy Sleeping Beauty.
		In a final master stroke, McKinley cleverly takes creative license when the spell-breaking kiss (made famous in "Sleeping Beauty") comes from a surprising source and is bestowed upon the character least expected.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=7449 (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunshine: Books: Robin McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a McKinley fan any new book by her is to be welcomed, but having finished this I'm left in the curious position of having liked it in spite of it's flaws, and thus sympathetic to a number of reviewers who have NOT enjoyed reading it at all.
		McKinley's vampires are genuinely loathsome creatures that aside from being human-shaped, don't share a lot of similarities with humans.
		"Sunshine," by Robin McKinley is the story of cheerful cinammon roll baker Rae Seddon, and her encounter with the world of the vampires.
	www.amazon.com /Sunshine-Robin-McKinley/dp/0425191788 (2811 words)

	McKinley, Robin. Sunshine Kliatt - Find Articles
		McKinley takes a giant step away from her usual fairy tale fantasy in this dark urban horror/fantasy novel.
		As she begins to understand her legacy as the daughter of the powerful sorcerer Oryx Blaise, she allies herself with Constantine in a partnership beyond the comprehension of everyone around her.
		McKinley's first-person narrative is smooth, even when the action's most pell-mell, and for the most part the characters are well developed, although some leave the reader wanting more.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_3_39/ai_n13723652 (316 words)

	Amazon.com: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: Books: Robin McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Robin McKinley's writing has the flavor of another century, and Beauty heightens the authenticity as a reliable and competent narrator.
		McKinley tells a beautiful, fully fleshed out story here, far more than the fairy tale with loveable characters, believable events, comedy and tragedy and love.
		Robin McKinley's books all give an unusual twist to a classic tale, but this one is by far her best.
	www.amazon.com /Beauty-Retelling-Story-Beast/dp/0064404773 (3167 words)

	Robin McKinley, Sunshine
		Robin McKinley's strengths as a world-builder, most evident in her Damarian novels, are here in full force.
		McKinley gives enough details of Sunshine's job as a baker that I'd confidently eat one of her cinnamon rolls, but not so many that I feel I'd need to be interested in being a baker myself to care.
		This is the Robin McKinley who won the Newberry, and who I'm confident will win it again soon.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_mckinley_sunshine.html (818 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Deerskin: Books: Robin McKinley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When her growing beauty begins to resemble her mother's too closely, Princess Lissar must flee from her father's wrath, and, in doing so, she unlocks a door into a world of magic.
		I just wanted to warn readers who enjoyed McKinley's other books, that this is much more disturbing than any of her other novels.
		McKinley's books and enjoyed them alot- but I find I have to be in the mood for slow books to read Ms.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Deerskin-Robin-McKinley/dp/044100069X (794 words)

	The Outlaws of Sherwood: by Robin McKinley
		By the end of the day a man lay dead in the King's Forest, and Robin was an outlaw with a price on his head.
		But Newbery medalist Robin McKinley brings her unique gifts of storytelling to the familiar legends, and creates an original and compelling novel.
		Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of.
	www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780688071783 (499 words)

	Sunshine by Robin McKinley review
		McKinley may be a seasoned author with a fair number of well-received fantasies behind her already but this is the book she hits her stride with.
		The main plot doesn't just centre around Rae's encounter with Con, the vampire she is imprisoned with, but the months afterwards as she tries to hold her life together.
		Like most of the characters, Sunshine is not exactly the humble coffee-house baker she claims to be and half the enjoyment is in watching her piece together the fragments of her past to make sense of who she is.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_feb/review0204_2.shtml (567 words)

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