Mark Twain

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence--when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him--to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
 
The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.



The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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John C. Gerber

Paul Baender

Jean Craighead George

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Novel

Where there's trouble, you'll find Tom Sawyer. Who else would get out of the boring job of whitewashing a fence by tricking every boy in town to do it for him? And when Tom teams up with rascally Huck Finn, the trouble doubles. The adventure and fun never end in this all-time favorite by one of America's greatest storytellers.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Category - Fiction / Classics

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 10 months ago

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Est. Publication Date - Oct 2004