The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Graphic Novel

By: Irving, Washington

Book Overview

A headless horseman haunts Sleepy Hollow At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing the hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and dynamic new covers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496500318
• ISBN13: 9781496500311
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Stone Arch Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

You feel that you are there.

As with many readers, my previous exposure to this story was the Disney Cartoon and the ghoulish adaptation by Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in the Movie "Sleepy Hollow" [Blu-ray] (1999). With my purchase of the story, I was catching up on the classics or samples from different writers. I did not realize this was so short of a story and had to get the images out of my head from the films. I am amazed by the good descriptive writing of Washington Irving. I had to set the book down occasionally to look up people and words. Now I ordered information on Hudson and Cotton Mather. I spent a year near the location of the story at West Point. Now I wonder if there was such a place as Sleepy Hollow. This is another example of the book being better than the movie. And I look forward to reading more of Washington Irving. You will be hooked on him also. In any event, it is worth the read.