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Flip books tell two sides of favorite stories!Now children can read classic tales from two different perspectives. The traditional hero's story is on one side of the book, the same story from another character's viewpoint is on the flip side. Well-loved folktales are even more enjoyable when examined in a new light.Rip Van Winkle's daughter remembers her father as an irresponsible loafer who lived in the mountains for 20 years because he ran o...

Remember Sleepy Hollow? The place where the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane met his fate during an infamous encounter with the headless horseman? Now, Will Moses offers a nostalgic look at this legend using his own detailed, full-color folk illustrations. With its authentic portrayal of the Hudson River valley, Moses has created a unique storyteller's edition.

There is truth in the saying that onlookers see more of the game than the players, and in the same way it may be said that in this series of sketches of rural England, with descriptions of rustic customs, and above all of the hearty keeping of Christmas in an old country house, the eyes of a sympathetic American, born in colonial days, have seen things worth recording that might have been overlooked by an Englishman as too familiar to mention....

There is something in the very season of the year that gives a charm to the festivity of Christmas. At other times we derive a great portion of our pleasures from the mere beauties of nature. Our feelings sally forth and dissipate themselves over the sunny landscape and we "live abroad and everywhere." The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short gloomy days and darksome nights, while they circumscribe our wanderings, shut in our ...

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement. Other residents say an old Native American chief, the wizard of...