by Sid Fleischman · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010141522
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«L'Homme qui brillait la nuit» is the adventure and fantasy novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Hachette in paperback (185 pages, in French).
Olivier Finch, a fourteen-year-old boy who can see ghosts, is kidnapped by the fearsome Captain Scratch. The pirate wants to use that gift to find a legendary treasure guarded by the specter of Gentleman Jack.
The work appeared in 1994 in the Bibliothèque Verte collection; ISBN 2010141520 identifies this edition.
Aimed at child readers aged 6 to 9, especially those who enjoy stories of pirates and ghosts.
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).
