catskill mountains (n.y.)

Adaptations of two famous stories by Irving: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.

Reprints over fifty color plates created by Arthur Rackman as illustrations for the 1905 edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and includes the text of the story about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up to find a very different world.

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

The author brings back characters from her classic "My Side of the Mountain" in this story about a falcon chick named Oksi, one of Frightful's babies, who is rescued and nursed through her first winter by Sam, a boy who lives alone, at one with nature, on a mountain nearby.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

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

Contains two famous stories: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.

A forbidding and possibly haunted old estate affects the fortunes of two young people for whom life is difficult in their upstate New York small town.