by Sid Fleischman · Greenwillow Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060521219
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«Jim Ugly» is the children's and young adult adventure novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Greenwillow Books in paperback (144 pages, in English).
After the disappearance of his father, an actor rumored to be dead, Jake travels the Wild West with Jim Ugly, a wolf-like mongrel dog who only obeys his master. A lady, a theater company, and a peculiar man pursue them: all are looking for Sam Bannock.
Reprint of the 2003 HarperTrophy edition, with illustrations by Jos. A. Smith. Catalogued as children's and young adult fiction of adventure, animals, and mystery.
Suitable for readers aged 8 to 12 and for those seeking adventure and mystery novels with animals in the Wild West.
Albert Sidney Fleischman was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient. The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996).
