To escape a nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle went hunting with his faithful dog Wolf as was his wont. Little did he know what he would encounter as he climbed up to the top of the Catskill Mountains, and what he would behold.Meanwhile, twenty years later, a strange old man enters an All-American town looking for his dog, his nagging wife, and a world he had known, but had somehow mysteriously lost.The classic story of Rip Van Winkle originally written by Washington Irving is brought to life in an abridged version for children ages 7-12 by authors Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane. The book contains nineteen, beautiful, black-and-white illustrations conceived by Fiza Pathan and executed by Farzana Cooper.