mississippi river

Illustrations and simple text provide a brief introduction to the life of seventeenth-century Jesuit explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Tom Sawyer, a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.

Tells the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Describes the course of the largest river in North America, the Mississippi and the connections between the plant and animal species that live in and around it.

After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.

Presents an illustrated adaptation of the story of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.