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

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Trying to be good for Christmas without bungling everything up is difficult.

Little Critter engages in various imaginative activities while preparing for bed and his father tells him to just go to bed.

A child imagines all the things to be done when one is bigger.

A boy has a hard time playing with his friend because his baby sister is hanging around yelling, "No," about everything they try to do.

Though playing with a friend can be a great deal of fun, it's good to be alone sometimes too.

Little Critter daydreams about what he would do to the local bully if he were Super Critter.

Little Critter and his mother take a trip to the city, where they visit museums, explore stores, and eat lunch.