by Sid Fleischman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434586772
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«¡Por la gran cuchara de cuerno!» is the young adult adventure novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Salvat Alfaguara in paperback (203 pages, in Spanish).
Jack Flagg and his butler Praiseworthy travel to gold-rush California in search of fortune. During the adventure they face unexpected challenges and colourful characters, in a story of dreams and discoveries.
Colección Biblioteca Juvenil, number 97. Translation by Gloria Pujol and illustrations by Eric von Schmidt; original title: «By the Great Horn Spoon!».
For young readers who enjoy adventure novels and humour.
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).
