Product Description

A retelling of Washington Irving's classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," about the skinny schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and the demonic ghost that he meets in the Hudson River Valley features striking oil paintings as illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2115515 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• 1 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6-A sensitive and lively retelling of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that preserves all of its main characters and familiar action. Downplaying Irving's social satire allows the supernatural atmosphere to dominate the tale. The text is not dumbed down, however: words like herculean, unsurpassed, crestfallen, and careened flavor the pages. The illustrations, too, have a level of sophistication that will satisfy older readers without entirely baffling younger ones. Against a variety of green tones, red-orange hues strike notes ranging from autumnal to lurid. The artist's style is reminiscent of Chagall's. A strong hint of Ichabod in the scarecrow on the last spread emphasizes the gangly schoolmaster's final humiliation and defeat. An adaptation that might whet readers' appetites for the original.
Patricia (Dooley) Lothrop Green, St. George's School, Newport, RI
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 3^-5, younger for reading aloud. This concise distillation of Washington Irving's classic is as accessible to youngsters who want to read alone as it is to children who simply want to be listeners. Emma Harding's paintings are an eerie counterpoint to the concentrated story, with their almost surreal flavor and autumn palette lending nuances not necessarily present in the text itself. Dark and brooding, they add a gloomy subtext that is both powerful and disconcerting, and they restore subtleties to the story that disappeared with Irving's original, elegant language. A solid addition to the holiday shelf and to collections of books for transitional readers. Janice Del Negro

Customer Reviews

The horseman is on the lose.
As Ichabod teaches at Sleepyhollow, he gets Invited to a party in which his favorite girl is at. When he arrives at the party on Gunpowder,his horse, he sees all sorts of foods and goodies. Near the end of the party the men smoke there pipes and talked about the headless horseman. Ichabod got really scared. So that night when Ichabod was riding home he thought he saw a figuree that looked liked the horseman. In fact it was the horseman. He chased Ichabod all the way to the birdge when the horseman threw his pumkin head at him. It hit Ichabod in the forehead and Ichbod was never seen again.