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The Headless Horseman: A Retelling of Washington Irving's "the Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
- GenresClassicsPicture Books
88 pages, Library Binding
First published October 1, 1995
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November 4, 2021
Read this for honors English. The story was all right and the message was pretty obvious. I couldn't help feeling bad Ichabod, but I know I wasn't suppose to...
October 23, 2012
I thought this was a really descriptive review from Amazon:
"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."
"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."
February 4, 2008
This book has extremely descriptive death scenes. I really loved the book and will read it again, probably next Halloween. That said, I am now much more careful about monitoring what Atali reads because I borrowed it from her!
November 2, 2008
very good Ichabad craine so so foolish.
November 3, 2013
Great for school age kids to learn of the legend.
April 27, 2017
Besides the fact that the illustrations were strange, and the text was often hard to read because of the coloration, there was an unfortunate demythologizing in this version. It's clear that Brom Bones is the source of the mysterious event that leads to the disappearance of Ichabod Crane, with whom Bones was a rival for Katrina's affection. Irving's version does not contains this clear rationalizing, instead leaving things more open to supernatural influence.
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