Thomas Locker, Author, Washington Irving, Author, Thomas Locker, Illustrator Dial Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0520-3
From Locker comes a set of paintings that, like The Boy Who Held Back the Sea , elegantly recall old Dutch masters. Rip Van Winkle, of course, is enchanted by the brew he drinks with a band of men playing ninepins in the Catskills, sleeps, and wakes
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Washington Irving, read by Adam Sims. Naxos AudioBooks, , unabridged, 2 CDs, 2.5 hrs., $17.98 ISBN 978-184-379-800-2
The story of the lazy villager who takes a 20-year-long nap, the spindly school tech who runs for his life from the headless horseman, and the maiden who falls in love with a young soldier—many have heard these tales, but the richness of details...
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Washington Irving, Author, Michael Garland, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $11.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56397-605-6
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Washington Irving, illus. by Michael Garland. Boyds Mills, $8.95 ISBN 1-56397-605-6. Full-page oil paintings illustrate this unabridged edition of the classic spine-tingler. All ages. (Sept.)
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Washington Irving, Author, Diane Wolkstein, Author, R. W. Alley, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06532-4
Mystery, suspense, legend, romance and humor can all be found in Wolkstein's fine retelling of Washington Irving's classic folktale. Through the gluttonous Ichabod Crane and the devilish prankster Bron Bones, children are transported into a foul...
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Washington Irving, Author, Will Moses, Author, Will Moses, Illustrator Philomel Books $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-22687-8
Paintings by Grandma Moses's great-grandson make a striking match for Irving's classic story of strange goings-on in a small town in the Hudson Valley. Though greatly condensed, the plot remains intact; Ichabod Crane, the gangly schoolteacher, is...
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Washington Irving, Author, Gary Kelley, Illustrator, Gary Kelley, Author Creative Company $21.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56846-082-6
Readers who haven't sat down recently with Irving's classic tale, or those who have yet to be introduced to it, are in for a treat. Written in 1820, the story of the slumbering Dutchman is remarkably fresh, told with verve and panache. In keeping...
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Washington Irving, Author, John Howe, Author, John Howe, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-37578-8
Howe, working in a style that is just as realistic as Locker's (see above), highlights the comic gifts of Irving's story: his Rip waves jauntily to a scarecrow, sneaks away from the house unaware that a stern Dame Van Winkle looks on and, in one...
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Washington Irving, Author, John Howe, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-37584-9
``This is a vivid piece of storytelling, which takes full advantage of the atmospheric Catskill setting and highlights the comic gifts of Irving's story,'' PW commented. ``Howe good-spiritedly taps the elements of the tale that make it an American...
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Will Moses, Illustrator, Washington Irving, Author, Will Moses, Author Putnam Publishing Group $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-698-11648-1
""Paintings by Grandma Moses's great-grandson make a striking match for the classic story,"" said PW. Ages 5-up. (Aug.)
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Meriwether Lewis, Author, Washington Irving, Author, Amelia Earhart, Author National Geographic Society $16 (600p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6921-2
The epic Lewis and Clark Expedition comes to life on a human scale in this engrossing abridgment of the explorers' journals. The travelers spent more than two years traveling up the Missouri, across the Rockies to the Pacific and back, and these...
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