The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged) by Mark J. Twain; Illustrated by Scott McKowen
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1402714602 ISBN-13:   9781402714603 Publisher:   Sterling Publishing Series:   Unabridged Classics Ser. Category:   Classics Pub. Date:   October 2004 Pages:   224 Format:   Hardcover; Cloth over boards
Subjects
Adventure Classic Tom Sawyer SAWYER, TOM (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION
Description/Notes
Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? Its something every child should experience and every child will love. From Toms sly trickery with the whitewashed fencewhen he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for himto his and Becky Thatchers calamities in bat cave, the enjoyment just never ends. The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Part of a new series of classic titles aimed at the younger reader. 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. 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.