The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving, Dotti Enderle

ABDO, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 112 pages

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

Contents

• Tarry Town: 5
• Ichabod Crane: 11
• Gossip and Ghost Stories: 18
• Katrina Van Tassel: 25
• Brom Bones and His Gang: 33
• Bustle and Hubbub: 41
• The Van Tassel Party: 50
• The Chase: 59
• The Fate of Ichabod Crane: 70
• Rip Van Winkle: 75
• The Village: 76
• Rolling Thunder: 85
• The Long Nap: 92
• A Changed Village: 97
• Rips Story: 109

About the author

Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859. Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle; Calico illustrated classics
• Authors: Washington Irving, Dotti Enderle
• Illustrated by: Howard McWilliam
• Contributor: Dotti Enderle
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: ABDO, 2011
• ISBN: 1602707472, 9781602707474
• Length: 112 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General; Juvenile Fiction / Readers / Chapter Books; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories