The Story of Rob Roy

The Story of Rob Roy, written by David Ross, is a book my family picked up while we lived overseas in Scotland. It is the story of Rob Roy MacGregor, a famous Scottish hero. He lived as a cow herder in the seventeenth century, often preforming acts of Robin Hood, robbing the rich to aid the poor. What I found difficult about this book was the organization of content. It hopped from talking about a story of Rob Roy in his twenties in the first chapter to telling of his youth in chapters two and three, and then spoke of him at an older age in the next few chapters. Also integrated through the tales of his life is Scottish history with several dukes, lords, kings, and queens. The royal lineage was hard enough to follow, especially in trying to connect it to Rob Roy. The vocabulary and sentence structure were simplistic enough for a piece of children's literature, but the flow and organization of information was hard for me to piece together, nevermind a young reader.