by Sid Fleischman · EDITIONS LIVRE DE POCHE JEUNESSE N° 33 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253025610
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«L'homme qui brillait la nuit» is the adventure novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse in paperback (185 pages, in French).
Oliver Finch, born at midnight, has the gift of seeing ghosts. That is why the superstitious Captain Scratch kidnaps him on his fourteenth birthday and sails with him to some islands in search of Gentleman Jack's treasure, buried with him. With a sinister crew, the voyage holds a spectral apparition.
Reissue of the work published in 1974 in the Bibliothèque verte collection; includes numerous black-and-white drawings.
Recommended from age 11, it is suitable reading for young people who enjoy pirates, treasures and ghostly apparitions.
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).
