Book Review for Older Kids

Depending on how well your child reads: For fourth/fifth grade through middle school readers.
Gris Grimly's adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" originally written by Washington Irving. Mr. Grimly gives his version of this American classic. He does it well. He writes like a poet. Describing people, their surrounding and all matter of things in a colorful manner. Grimly has his own style of writing and drawing. The illustrations in his book are in a comic strip style which I think children, especially boys will like. I don't mean to be sexist, but it seems the way the book is laid out it was created to attract boys. Which is not a bad thing, since we want boys to read as much as girls. Some of the pictures are down right funny.
Now for the story: It's about a school teacher named Ichabod Crane who lives in the town of Sleepy Hallow. He would like to marry the beautiful daughter of a wealthy farmer. But he has a rival for her hand. Ichabod goes to a party one night where his rival is in attendance. Party goers tell stories about the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hallow. On the way home from the party Ichabod meets up with a headless horseman.