Trease followed with fictional works such as Comrades for the Charter, Red Comet, Mystery on the Moors, In the Land of the Mogul: A Story of the East India Company's First Venture in India, Army without Banners, The Fair Flower of Danger, and The Chocolate Boy. His first novel for youngsters was Bows Against the Barons, which told the tale of Robin Hood but without the romanticism that many earlier writers attached to the title character.
He later lectured on children's literature. He then tried his hand at teaching from 1932 to 1933 before turning to full-time writing.
27, 1998, in Bath, England.Early in his career, Trease was a social worker and journalist in England. Trease’s books have been translated into some 20 languages. His Tales Out of School (1949) was an influential survey of children’s books that called for raising the literary standards of the field.
His nonfiction works for children include travel guides, histories, and biographies. Trease also wrote a series of novels about modern teenagers at school, beginning with No Boats on Bannermere (1949). In the 1930s Trease conceived of writing a new kind of socially aware historical fiction for children, “reflecting the changed values of the age.” Among his historical novels for young people are Bows Against the Barons (1934), about Robin Hood Cue for Treason (1940), set during the period of the English Civil War The Hills of Varna (1948), about the Italian Renaissance and Follow My Black Plume (1963) and A Thousand for Sicily (1964), both about Giuseppe Garibaldi. After studying for a year at Oxford, Trease worked as a journalist, social worker, and teacher. As a high school student, he excelled in history. In addition to novels for children, his more than 100 books included nonfiction for children and plays, novels, and nonfiction for adults. An advocate for improving the quality of children’s literature, Trease wrote well-researched stories that were praised for being both instructive and entertaining. English writer Geoffrey Trease pioneered in writing historical adventure novels for children that dealt with important moral and political issues.
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