Robin, recently crippled by some unknown disease, has been abandoned by his nurse after his father goes off to war and his mother has gone to serve the queen. However, a monk happens upon him and takes him to live at the monastery where he learns that even without the use of his legs, he is not useless. He learns to get around on crutches and turns out to be an incredible swimmer and carver.
The story ends with Robin using his abilities to save the kingdom in a very sweet ending.
The book was a little slow, but was a very cute story using the analogy that God will always open up a new door upon shutting another. I liked how the author made the dialogue rather easy to read but still has an old English feel, using thees and thous in an understandable way, rather unlike Howard Pyle, who is rather hard to understand and whose sentences are not easy to picture in an everyday situation.
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