The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman

Harris with service near the Philippines, Borneo, and China. He served as a Yeoman aboard the destroyer escort USS Albert T. He began performing professionally while still in high school, touring California with his friend Buddy Ryan, performing in nightclubs, and traveling the country with the Francisco Spook Show during the last days of vaudeville. He learned magic from library books and the local fraternity of magicians, inventing new tricks along the way. As a youngster, he beheld his first stage magic performance, launching a lifelong fascination that would find a place in many of his books. His parents were Ukrainian Jews and moved the family to San Diego, California when Fleischman was two years old.

Early years įleischman was born Avron Zalmon Fleischman in Brooklyn, New York in 1920. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996). The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain.

His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. Urn:isbn:0061947849 Republisher_date 20130925004349 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130923092114 Scanner Sidney Fleischman (born Avron Zalmon Fleischman Ma– March 17, 2010) was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:45:12 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1104402 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman