Most Popular Books by Sid Fleischman

Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy''s family.

"It; s true, I did tell a lie once, " says McBroom. But it''s not about the cold snap that froze sunlight to the ground. Or even about the time the McBroom chickens ate lightning bugs and glowed so bright, they used them as lanterns. Whatever it is, it''s bound to be laugh-out-loud funny, as his name is Josh McBroom. Illustrations. Age 7-10.

See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens. Everyone knew Charlie—Charlie Chaplin. When he was five years old he was pulled onstage for the first time, and he didn''t step off again for almost three-quarters of a century. Escaping the London slums of his tragic childhood, he took Hollywood like a conquistador with a Cockney accent. With his gift for pantomime in films that had not yet acquired vocal cords, he was soon rubbing elbows with royalty and dining on gold plates in his own Beverly Hills mansion. He was the most famous man on earth—and he was regarded as the funniest. Still is. . . . He comes to life in these pages. It''s an astonishing rags-to-riches saga of an irrepressible kid whose childhood was dealt from the bottom of the deck. Abundantly illustrated.

Members of the Bloodhound Detective Agency are called in to investigate the theft of a valuable clock.

After cracking a secret message, the Bloodhound Gang tracks down a smuggling ring.

Two exotic thrillers originally published in 1952 and 1963 by Gold Medal Books.

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 instead. But one night he steals from the wrong girl. Susana is clever. She is wily. She is brave. And she wants her dream back.

"Et pust af midnat" er en magisk fortælling om en usædvanlig pagt mellem en død tryllekunstner og en forældreløs dreng. Det hele begynder, da den forældreløse Touch må rejse afsted til sin grandonkel, dommer Henry Wigglesforth, for at hente en arv. På vej i diligencen bliver det stormvejr, og pludselig får Touch øje på et spøgelse uden for vognen. Rygtet siger, at det er genfærdet af en berømt tryllekunstner. Fra da af forandres alt, og hverken turen i diligencen eller mødet med grandonklen, forløber som Touch havde forestillet sig. Da det viser sig, at Touchs grandonkel er værre end ond må Touch nemlig allierer sig med den døde tryllekunstner. Men er det nok til at undslippe grandonklen? Albert Sidney Fleischman, eller Sid Fleischman, (1920-2010) var en amerikansk forfatter. Han skrev skønlitteratur for både børn og voksne, fagbøger og manuskripter, men især hans børnebøger er kendt for deres humor og fantasy. Han har modtaget adskillige priser for sit arbejde.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

Il pleut des grenouilles. A l''intérieur de la diligence à destination de Cricklewood se tiennent un forgeron, un voleur et Touch, un orphelin. Et sur le toit, le Grand Chaffalo, un magicien autrefois acclamé pour son extraordinaire tour de cheval magique, qui consistait à transformer une botte de paille en un cheval fringant. (extrait 4e de couv.)

Young Clint''s ingenious scheme foils a villainous train wrecker''s attempt to rob the circus train.

Entries in McBroom''s almanac include farm tips, how-to''s, McProverbs, nature lore, cartoons, and McBroom''s Calendar of Important Dates.

A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and rout nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves in a beached boat on the banks of the Missouri.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

In 1849 Jack Flagg and his Aunt Arabella''s butler, Praiseworthy, stowaway on a side-wheeler sailing from Boston to San Francisco, hoping to strike it rich in the gold fields of California. In the adventures that ensue, Praiseworthy proves himself even more able as a traveling companion than he had previously shown himself as a butler.

Four humorous adventures on McBroom''s wonderful one-acre prairie farm.