The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [With Earbuds]

In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, schoolmaster Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the towns children. He fancies the idea of marrying Katrina Van Tassel, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, but Abraham Brom Bones Van Bruntthe town rowdyhas already set his heart on marrying her. Their romantic rivalry climaxes with the appearance of the legendary Headless Horseman, allegedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head during the Revolutionary War. Every night he rides out in search of it. Since this storys first appearance in 1820, generations of readers have thrilled to the headless horseman galloping through the haunted woods of Sleepy Hollow. The lively tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated courtship of Katrina is a classic ghost story.