Adventures of Tom Sawyer : read, watch, listen pack
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Alamosa Public Library assembled this set of book, movie, and audiobook to promote an enhanced experience of books and their adaptations. In this set, the book tells the original story and gives you all the character development and backstory. The movie brings the classic tale to life.and the audiobook presents a verbal imagining of the narrative.

The film was produced by David O. Selznick ; directed by Norman Taurog.

Actors in the film are: Tom Kelly, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Victor Jory, Ann Gillis, Donald Meek.

The audiobook is narrated by: Norman Dietz

Well over a century has passed since the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, but time has done little to diminish the appeal and enjoyment of this classic story of growing up in Midwestern America. The world Mark Twain envisioned for his precocious hero is a "boy-perfect" one, where life is perpetual vacation, where good and evil are clearly defined, awe-inspiring contradictions, and where the joys of independent discovery always outweigh the severity of punishment. "Although my book is intended for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in."-Mark Twain

The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn are always getting into trouble, but when they witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down river on a raft. The whole town thinks they're dead, so when they return, they are in even more trouble--and not only with their families. The trial for the murder begins, and the killer needs to make sure they don't tell what they know.