Sid Fleischman

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Sid Fleischman (born Albert Sidney Fleischman, March 16, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York), is a longtime resident of Santa Monica, California, USA and a Newbery award-winning author of children's books.

Before becoming an author, he was an amateur magician, served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and was a reporter for the San Diego Daily Journal until it folded in 1950.

In addition to writing children's books, Fleischman has done work for the Children's Television Workshop, writing the Bloodhound Gang mysteries for 3-2-1 Contact as well as serving as a consultant for the Mathnet mysteries on Square One TV.

He is the father of Newbery Medal-winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman. They are the only father and son pair to receive Newbery awards.

He is married to Betty Taylor.

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • Humbug Mountain
  • By The Great Horn Spoon!
  • The Whipping Boy (Newbery Medal winner)
  • The Thirteenth Floor: A Ghost Story
  • The Ghost In The Noonday Sun
  • Bandit's Moon
  • Chancy and the Grand Rascal
  • Jim Ugly
  • Jingo Django
  • Mr. Mysterious and Company
  • McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
  • McBroom Tells the Truth
  • The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life
  • The Midnight Horse
  • The Ghost in the Noonday Sun

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