Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories: Volume One: Squanto & The First Thanksgiving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Graham Greene (Read by), Glenn Close (Read by), Paul McCandless (Musician )

Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories: Volume 1 enlivens and entertains with these classic holiday stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today’s greatest artists.

Squanto and the First Thanksgiving
Read by Graham Greene
Original Music by Paul McCandless

Here is the touching true story of a Native American named Squanto, who is captured from him tribe and sold into slavery in Spain. Years later, Squanto regains his freedom and journeys back to his homeland where he teaches the Pilgrims how to survive–culminating in the first Thanksgiving celebration.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Read by Glenn Close
Original Music by Tim Story

New schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is at odds with local hero and bully Brom Bones for the affection of a local young lady. The drama peaks with the appearance of one of the most legendary ghosts of all time, the Headless Horseman, in Washington Irving’s eerie, classic tale of romantic rivalry.

Genres: Historical, Halloween, Short Stories, Classics, Childrens, Thanksgiving, Fiction

Audio CD

First published August 14, 2007

About the author

Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).
He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivienne Dayrell-Browning. Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic". He died in 1991, aged 86, of leukemia, and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland. William Golding called Greene "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety".

Reviews

[Billy Noecker · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Washington Irving story of Ichibod Crane. As a schoolmaster, he finds himself gaining favor in the eyes Katrina for helping her with singing. To the dismay of her suitor, Brom Bones, Ichibod is starting to feel competition. Was it the ghost of the Headless Horseman or Bones himself, but can anyone figure out why the schoolmaster has disappeared, never to be seen again?

[Wendi (Alex) Werner · Rating 1 out of 5]

The music was too loud for me to really hear the stories. The music was distracting.

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for kids.

[Pinky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learn about Squanto and what led him to help the pilgrims make their home in America. Afterwards, listen to the spooky Fall tale of a headless horseman and superstitious schoolteacher.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

We loved this collection of stories!

[Joanna]

Only completed Squanto's story.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is our traditional book reads every Halloween and Thanksgiving. We love listening to them every year.