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Rip Van Winkle

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Author(s):Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):Arthur Rackham
Publisher(s): William Heinemann
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Year Published: 1916
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Fantasy – American
Folk Tales
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 36
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 631221

Description

This edition of the tale of a hunter who slept for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains after a game of bowls has additional drawings but fewer plates. In this edition the plates are distributed throughout the text. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Other Editions

Rip Van Winkle (1905)

A tale of Dutch New York and old Rip who played at bowls with Hendrick Hudson and his crew and slept for twenty years. This first edition has the plates all bound together at the back, as in the original issue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Read for free online at Google Books.

Publisher: William Heinemann
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Rip Van Winkle (1921)

Out hunting, Rip plays at bowls with the men of the mountains and drinks too deeply of their liquor. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: David McKay
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Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1951)

Two tales, one of the layabout who slept for twenty years and the other of the pumpkin-headed night rider on Halloween.

Publisher: Macmillan Company
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