Sid Fleischman (1920–2010)
Författare till The Whipping Boy
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Sid Fleischman was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 16, 1920 but grew up in San Diego, California. He loved all things magical and toured professionally as a magician until the beginning of World War II. During the war, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and afterwards, he graduated from San visa mer Diego State University in 1949. After graduation, he worked as a reporter with the San Diego Daily Journal. After the paper folded in 1950, he started writing fiction. He tried his hand at children's books because his own children often wondered what their father did. To show them how he created stories, he wrote them a book. He wrote more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works during his lifetime including The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life; Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; The Thirteenth Floor; and The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. His book, The Whipping Boy, won the Newberry Award in 1987. He is the father of Newbery Medal winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman; they are the only father and son to receive Newbery awards. He also wrote screenplays including Lafayette Escadrille, Blood Alley, and The Whipping Boy. He died from cancer on March 17, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Sid Fleischman
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, and the Whipping Boy (2009) 2 exemplar
The Deadly Companions 2 exemplar
Between Cocktails with a Packet of Matches! 2 exemplar
La alfombra persa 1 exemplar
Gardez-vous à gauche ! 1 exemplar
SANS ATOUTS (SERIE NOIRE 1) 1 exemplar
Counterspy Express / Treachery in Trieste 1 exemplar
Yellowleg 1 exemplar
McBroom's Calendar of Important Dates 1 exemplar
The Straw Donkey Case 1 exemplar
Story of Ping 1 exemplar
The Biggest Flea 1 exemplar
El fantasma del sabado por la noche/El hombre del caballo bizco (Coleccion Juvenil 299) (1991) 1 exemplar
Top Secrets 1 exemplar
Die Abenteuer des Herrn Leberecht 1 exemplar
Set of 5 McBroom Books 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Treasure Island Trek; Children's Author & Illustrator Festival Saturday Oct, 18, 1969 — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Fleischman, Albert Sidney
- Andra namn
- FLEISCHMAN, A. S.
FLEISCHMAN, Albert Sidney
FLEISCHMAN, Sid - Födelsedag
- 1920-03-16
- Avled
- 2010-03-17
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
San Diego, California, USA
Santa Monica, California, USA - Utbildning
- San Diego State University (1949)
- Relationer
- Fleischman, Paul (son)
- Organisationer
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
United States Naval Reserve - Priser och utmärkelser
- Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2002)
Spur Award (1963)
Lewis Carroll Shelf (1969)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
The Whipping Boy av Sid Fleischman
A Prince and a Pauper . . . Prince Brat and his whipping boy inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like each other. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.
Month of January 2022: Young Reader’s Classics
READING LEVEL: 5.1 AR POINTS: 6.0
(8-12 years, grade 3-7)
Originally published in 1963. Gave to my Hodge grandsons.
Super cute adventure novel, especially for young boys, that takes place in 1949 during the California gold rush. Jack and his two sisters live with their Aunt Arabella on account of their parent’s dying of cholera. She’s about to lose the house, so Jack decides to help. He heads out, with the family butler, Praiseworthy, on the vessel, Lady Wilma, to San Francisco by way of the treacherous Cape Horn.
Half the book is about Jack and Praiseworthy’s adventures out at sea. The other half is on their gold digging adventures as they earn the respect of the other miners and earn the nicknames Jamoka Jack and Bullwhip.
A very nostalgic read because it reads just as if you were watching one of those great oldie, but goodie, Disney movies back in the day.
BOOK-TO-MOVIE
“The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin” (1967), an American Western comedy produced by Disney, starring Roddy McDowall, Susanne Pleshette, Hermiine Baddeley and Karl Malden… (mer)
READING LEVEL: 5.1 AR POINTS: 6.0
(8-12 years, grade 3-7)
Originally published in 1963. Gave to my Hodge grandsons.
Super cute adventure novel, especially for young boys, that takes place in 1949 during the California gold rush. Jack and his two sisters live with their Aunt Arabella on account of their parent’s dying of cholera. She’s about to lose the house, so Jack decides to help. He heads out, with the family butler, Praiseworthy, on the vessel, Lady Wilma, to San Francisco by way of the treacherous Cape Horn.
Half the book is about Jack and Praiseworthy’s adventures out at sea. The other half is on their gold digging adventures as they earn the respect of the other miners and earn the nicknames Jamoka Jack and Bullwhip.
A very nostalgic read because it reads just as if you were watching one of those great oldie, but goodie, Disney movies back in the day.
BOOK-TO-MOVIE
“The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin” (1967), an American Western comedy produced by Disney, starring Roddy McDowall, Susanne Pleshette, Hermiine Baddeley and Karl Malden… (mer)
In this McBroom tall tale, Josh McBroom tells yet another story about life on the farm, this time detailing their experiences with prairie winds so strong that they broke his leg. Includes a jump-rope skipping bear and migrating rabbits.
A didactic fable-like story about a boy named Jemmy who's whipped in place of Prince Brat (what everyone calls him, I'm not sure we are told his real name) whenever the spoiled prince pulls pranks or acts out. When the prince decides he's had enough and leaves the palace, he brings Jemmy along with them and the two of them fall in with outlaws. The outlaws can't quite believe that the prince is really who he says he is, so they treat Jemmy as the prince instead. Will the boys band together or will Jemmy make a break for it?
Meh. The story was pretty bland, predictable and well, kinda dumb. I listened with half an ear to the narration, and that wasn't a great production either. Spike McClure does a reasonable job of all the voices, but he sounds very much like an old man trying to sound like a boy, I could hear the effort of the narration (breathing or swallows, perhaps), and the thing that sticks with me most is that he pronounced the voiceless "w". I didn't hate it, but I'll probably forget most of it by the end of the month.… (mer)
Meh. The story was pretty bland, predictable and well, kinda dumb. I listened with half an ear to the narration, and that wasn't a great production either. Spike McClure does a reasonable job of all the voices, but he sounds very much like an old man trying to sound like a boy, I could hear the effort of the narration (breathing or swallows, perhaps), and the thing that sticks with me most is that he pronounced the voiceless "w". I didn't hate it, but I'll probably forget most of it by the end of the month.… (mer)
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