Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Children's books titled after the famous Sleepy Hollow story

After watching the "Sleepy Hollow" tv show, I was excited to find out what other "spin-offs" there were! So, I went to the library at the school where I work. I found a few different books by Washington Irving but only one book that wasn't the exact "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" story. It was a book titled "The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight- More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep" by Jack Prelutsky. It is a book of poems geared toward children. The poems are a little on the scary side from a child's point of view but I thought that each different poem offered a different perspective on the Headless Horseman. It also provided a variety of types of poems. They didn't all rhyme and I thought that was great. Many times, children feel that all poems have to rhyme but this book shows them that a poem can still be interesting and catch a reader's attention without rhyming. The last poem in the book is called "The Headless Horseman". It is the most similar to the story written by Washington Irving but still has a uniqueness about it that makes it interesting. I can't wait to see what else I find in other libraries!

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