Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

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ABDO Publishing Company, Sep 1, 2010 - Juvenile Fiction - 112 pages
Two of Washington Irving's classic short stories have been adapted for young readers. When Ichabod Crane enters the village of Sleepy Hollow, he is enthralled by its ghost stories--until he becomes the center of one. Then, the strange disappearance of Rip Van Winkle has been the talk of his village for twenty years, yet it's only been a night's sleep for Rip! The mysteries of the old Dutch settlements are retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
 

Contents

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4
Chapter 1 Tarry Town
5
Chapter 2 Ichabod Crane
11
Chapter 3 Gossip and Ghost Stories
18
Chapter 4 Katrina Van Tassel
25
Chapter 5 Brom Bones and His Gang
33
Chapter 6 Bustle and Hubbub
41
Chapter 7 The Van Tassel Party
50
Chapter 9 The Fate of Ichabod Crane
70
Rip Van Winkle
75
Chapter 1 The Village
76
Chapter 2 Rolling Thunder
85
Chapter 3 The Long Nap
92
Chapter 4 A Changed Village
97
Chapter 5 Rips Story
109
Copyright

Chapter 8 The Chase
59

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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.

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