The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle

by Bryan Brown, Washington Irving (Editor), Nick Block (Illustrator)

Washington Irving's world of magic and mystery unfolds in two dramatic tales as Ichabod Crane takes a midnight ride that becomes a nightmare in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van Winkle wakes after many years to find that everything has changed in Rip Van Winkle.

189 pages, Hardcover

First published July 30, 2001

Reviews

[Addie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This children's version of the book I did as a read-aloud with my youngest. He loves this story, and it was perfect to read at Halloween. It ended up a little longer than the original because they use different words and sentence structure to make it easier for little kids to understand it. But my son liked the pictures, and seemed to understand it well enough. While I prefer the original, reading this easy reader helped me understand a few paragraphs that confused me otherwise because of the language and time barrier between when I read it and when the author, Washington Irving, wrote it.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this version of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle a lot better.

[Slow Man · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two timeless tales retold to young readers.

[mxteryman · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Understanding this is also an adaptation and edit of the original work) Cute as kids' stories, hasn't aged great with development of culture and cliche, but the writing's lovely, lighthearted (did make me laugh at one specific point), and I can see how it has American fictional icons (namely the Headless Horseman and Rip Van Winkle) worth the stuff of speculation, legend, light contemplation of how one places their priorities in life.

Honestly I'd side with Dame Van Winkle if my husband was pretty much actively avoiding his own work.

[Kara Kuehl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great way to see if you want to read the real books. I realized I did not, but the quick summary was immensely helpful!

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this