Awards & Winners

Sid Fleischman

Date of Birth 16-March-1920
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Albert Sidney Fleischman, Albert Sidney Fleischmann, Max Brindle, A.S. Fleischman, Avron Zalmon Fleischman
Profession Writer, Author, Illusionist
Albert Sidney Fleischman, or Sid Fleischman, was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient. The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life.

Awards by Sid Fleischman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sid Fleischman.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Escape!
6 up
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The White Elephant
4 up

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The giant rat of Sumatra
4 up

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile The 13th Floor

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile The Midnight Horse

1987


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Whipping Boy

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Whipping Boy

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books Humbug Mountain

1963


Spur Award for Best Juvenile
Honored for : By the Great Horn Spoon!