Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories: Rip van Winkle ; 2. The spectre Bridegroom ; 3. The legend of Sleepy Hollow

Челмсфорд, 1991. - 42 pages. The best classic stories beautifully retold in easy English and illustrated in full colour. Introduction. Rip van Winkle. The Spectre Bridegroom. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Questions. New words. Simplified by D K Swan and Michael West. Illustrated by Terry Gabbey. Stage 2: 900 word vocabulary. [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. As a result of drinking the liquor of some strange Dutchmen, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later to a much-changed world Stories deal with a twenty-year sleep, a ghostly apparition, and a goblin, in these controlled vocabulary adaptations of Irving's classic tales