Sid Fleischman

Sid Fleischman

Sid Fleischman, the Newbery Award-winning author of The Whipping Boy, proclaims that he had an ordinary childhood just like that of any other child. But perhaps his childhood was not so typical after all. Though he was born in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in San Diego during the Great Depression,deciding in the fifth grade that he wanted to become a magician. Just out of high school, he traveled widely in vaudeville and with a midnight ghost-and-goblin show!

After his wartime service in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he finished college and went on to work as a reporter for the San Diego Daily Journal. When the paper disbanded in 1950, he turned his talents to writing fiction. He experienced some moderate success: one of his novels was bought for a major motion picture, and he was offered a contract to write the screenplay.

However, it was Sid's children that led him into writing children's books. They didn't understand what it was that he did for a living. So he decided to clear up the mystery by writing a book just for them. Today, he divides his time between writing films and children's books. As a children's book author, Fleischman says that he feels a special obligation to his young readers. "The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever—they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph, and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work."

Sid Fleischman has always lived by the ocean, and now resides in Santa Monica, California, where he enjoys hearing the sound of the nearby Pacific Ocean. He lives in an old-fashioned, two-story house, full of creaks and character.

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By the Great Horn Spoon!
by Sid Fleischman
from Little, Brown & Company
Realistic Fiction for 3rd-6th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$7.64
McBroom and the Beanstalk
by Sid Fleischman; illustrated by Walter Lorraine
from Little, Brown & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
McBroom the Rainmaker
by Sid Fleischman
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 2nd-6th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
McBroom's Ghost
by Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Grosset & Dunlap
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm
by Sid Fleischman
from Greenwillow Books
Fantasy for 2nd-5th Grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
McBroom's Zoo
by Sid Fleischman
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 2nd-5th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Trouble Begins at 8
by Sid Fleischman
1st edition from Greenwillow Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
First Scholastic Printing from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-5th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
1st edition from Greenwillow Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
from HarperCollins
Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade
1987 Newbery Medal winner
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$5.94 $2.40 (3 in stock)
Whipping Boy - Progeny Press Study Guide
Progeny Press Literature Guides
by Rebecca Gilleland
from Progeny Press
Literature Guide for 3rd-5th grade
in Progeny Press Literature Guides (Location: LIT-SGPP)
$21.99
Whipping Boy - TLP Guide
Total Language Plus Literature Guides
from Total Language Plus
for 3rd-4th Grade
in Total Language Plus Guides (Location: LITSG-TLP)