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Thursday, March 25, 2010

rgz Newsflash: Sid Fleischman passes

Sid FleischmanSid Fleischman Photo: Kevin O Malley

Just caught this on PW:

Author Sid Fleischman died March 17 in his home in Santa Monica, Calif., at the age of 90. Fleischman won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for his novelThe Whipping Boy, and wrote more than 50 books for children, as well as screenplays and adult fiction and nonfiction. His first children's book, Mr. Mysterious & Company, was published in 1962, and his most recent wasThe Dream Stealer (Greenwillow, 2009). Fleischman was a National Book Award finalist in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. He also received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Fleischman's biographies for children—The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West and Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini—also drew acclaim; a third, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World, will be published by Greenwillow in June.

Our best to his family as they miss Sid. xox

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4 comments:

Lorie Ann Grover said...

I heart Sid and Paul...

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