by Brian Selznick · Bayard Jeunesse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782747055505
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«La boîte magique d'Houdini» is the children's book by Brian Selznick, published by Bayard Jeunesse in paperback (112 pages, in French).
Victor dreams of becoming a magician and practices Harry Houdini's tricks at home, though none of them work. One day he meets Harry Houdini and his wife at a train station and takes the opportunity to ask him everything he has always wanted to know. Houdini listens carefully, asks for the label on his suitcase and promises to write to him.
Original work in English, «The Houdini Box», published in 1991 and translated into French by Agnès Piganiol. The original work won the Texas Bluebonnet Award.
Readers ages 8 to 12, especially those who enjoy stories about magic and the figure of Harry Houdini.
Brian Selznick is an American illustrator and author best known as the writer of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011), The Marvels (2015) and Kaleidoscope (2021). He won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing The Invention of Hugo Cabret. He is also known for illustrating children's books such as the covers of Scholastic's 20th-anniversary editions of the Harry Potter series.
