When Ichabod Crane becomes the new schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, he quickly and happily adjusts to the local ways. He delights in the bountiful dinners he's served when visiting the prosperous farms of the region; he enjoys the local yarns and scary legends that fill the firelit evenings of autumn; and he comes to love the idea of marrying Katrina Van Tassel and of one day owning her father's wealth and lands. There's one problem with his plans,...

An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

"Rip Van Winkle" is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager, lives. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging.

After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.

Rip Van Winkle is perhaps one of the most enduring legends born out of the American Revolution. The subject of an 1819 short story by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle took a nap in the Catskill Mountains of New York and woke up 20 years later, having missed the entire war! In this book, young readers find out how the legendary story of Rip Van Winkle has its roots in older tales throughout history about progress and change. The text includes informative...

The legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Rip Van Winkle: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.