by Sid Fleischman · Lectorum Pubns · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420436531
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«La montaña farsante» is the young-adult novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Lectorum Pubns in paperback (164 pages, in Spanish).
Wiley, son of a journalist, searches for his grandfather and falls into the hands of some Western bandits, discovers a petrified man and a hen with powers. His family newspaper helps capture the outlaws and revive a ghost town, while Wiley sees his father and himself with new eyes.
The novel, translated from the original «Humbug Mountain» by Juan Antonio Santos, is illustrated by Eric von Schmidt. It belongs to the Alfaguara Juvenil collection, number 131.
For young readers seeking Western adventures full of strange situations and picturesque characters.
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).
