The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

mark twain scott mckowen

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.

Genres classicsfictionadventurehistorical fictionyoung adultliteraturechildrensschoolnovelsaudiobook

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1,1876

Series

Adventures of Tom and Huck

Literary awards

lewis carroll shelf award,

Places

hannibal missouri, missouri,

This edition

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 1, 2004 by Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781402714603
ASIN: 1402714602
Language: English

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Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is 12 or 13 years old at the time of the events in "Tom Sawyer" and would be a year older in "Huckleberry Finn". He is ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had a good heart. Huck is the son of a vagrant drunkard. He enjoys lazin...
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About the author

mark twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.