书名：The Midnight Gang 午夜帮
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数580L
作者：David Walliams
出版社名称：HarperCollins Children’s Books
出版时间：2018
语种：英文
ISBN：9780008164621
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.5 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：480
大卫·威廉姆斯是英国著名的儿童文学作家，在评论界享有“罗尔德·达尔继承人”的美誉。“大卫•少年幽默小说”描写的是少年儿童生活中常见的人物和故事，夸张变形的细节会让你捧腹大笑，温情感人的故事会让你心酸落泪。这种幽默诙谐和新奇故事的巧妙编织，让读者在体味生命、命运、财富、性别角色的同时，照亮心灵，驱赶心灵阴影，缓解心理压力，体现了作者超常的生活和创作智慧，是不可多得的少年儿童治愈系小说，是“家庭教育优选读物”。

The Midnight Gang《午夜帮》讲述了五个孩子在医院的病房里探索和冒险的经历，幽默又温馨感人。这是一个关于友谊和魔法的故事，也是一个让孩子们梦想成真的故事，读者将在其中体会到满满的温情，收获会心的笑容和感动的泪水。

Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning…
When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children’s ward… But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!
The Midnight Gang tells an extraordinarily heartwarming and, of course, funny story of five children on a hospital ward – and on a quest for adventure! It is a story of friendship and magic – and of making dreams come true. Readers are set to be utterly spellbound by this heartfelt story that will bring magic to everyone.

PRAISE FOR DAVID WALLIAMS:
“A pleasure to read. A beguilingly funny, original and thought-provoking tale… hilarious”
–Amanda Craig, The Times

“I absolutely love David Walliams's books. In a few more years they will become classics”
– Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole, Guardian

“The new Roald Dahl” – Evening Standard

“A triumphant mix of wit and warmth” –Telegraph Books of the Year

“Ridiculously over-the-top and utterly delightful” – Spectator

“Another triumph for David Walliams. His books are a breath of wonderful fresh air” –Sun

“David Walliams’ children’s books are now guaranteed bestsellers… watch this fly off the shelves” – Daily Mail

“Delightfully funny” – Metro
大卫·威廉姆斯（David Williams），英国当代著名的儿童图书作家，在评论界享有“罗尔德·达尔继承人”的美誉。2008年至今，他的儿童文学作品一经推出，便受到世界大小读者的热烈追捧和好评——其作品以“幽默风趣”、“温情耐读”而著称。他是英国著名的喜剧明星和演员，曾通过参与各种活动为慈善团体募得大量捐款。他是英国具有影响力的公众人物，曾获“不列颠骄傲”的荣誉称号。

David Walliams, comedian, actor and author – continues to take the children’s literary world by storm. His tenth novel, BAD DAD, was an immediate number one, following the triumph of THE MIDNIGHT GANG, the biggest-selling children’s book of 2016. WORLD’S WORST CHILDREN 2, which published in early 2017, spent four weeks at industry number one and eight weeks at the top of the children’s chart. They have achieved unprecedented critical acclaim – and RATBURGER, DEMON DENTIST and AWFUL AUNTIE have all won the National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. David’s books have now exceeded 100 non-consecutive weeks in the children’s number-one spot, and have been translated into 53 languages, selling more than 24 million copies worldwide.