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Rip Van Winkle
By Howe, John & Irving, Washington
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-31637-578-8
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown, c1988.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1988
K-Gr 5 Irving's complete text, with unsurpassed pictures by N. C. Wyeth, is still in print (Morrow, 1987). Although Howe's abridgement makes the story available to younger readers, it is debatable whether too much of the mystery and historythe sense of the passing of time and of political changehas been sacrificed in the shortening. Irving's plot has bee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
