by Sid Fleischman · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782211030458
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«Jingo Django» is Sid Fleischman's children's adventure novel, published by L'École des loisirs in paperback (222 pages, in French).
In Boston in 1854, Jingo waits in an orphanage for his father to come back for him; he remembers him with one leg and black teeth. When Mr. Peacock pretends to be his father, Jingo follows him and embarks on a treasure hunt involving identity changes, artistic talents, secret languages and wit, though he doesn't believe he is his father.
Original work published in 1971; French edition 1998. Received the Zilveren Griffel in 1975 and was nominated for the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 1973.
For child and young adult readers who enjoy historical adventures, treasure hunts and mysteries.
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).
