Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It8217;s something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom8217;s sly trickery with the whitewashed fence8212;when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him8212;to his and Becky Thatcher8217;s calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.nbsp;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 shy; 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.