Sid Fleischman

The Whipping Boy is a Newbery medal-winning children's book by Sid Fleischman, published in 1987.

The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West is a book by Sid Fleischman.

There is a bandit who comes in the night. He does not want pretty silver earrings or dangly gold necklaces, not diamonds or rubies.What does he want?Listen, I will tell you.He wants dreams.He is supposed to take only nightmares—the dreams of monsters and phantoms—but he's grown scared. He's been taking the good dreams …