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Line 1: {{creator}} {{Needs Image}} '''Sid Fleischman''' (1920 – 2010) was an American writer. He is best known for his children's books, which include ''[[The Whipping Boy]]'' (1987 [[Newbery Medal]] winner), ''[[McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm]]'', and ''[[The Ghost in the Noonday Sun]]''. {{bibliography}} ~~=== His works with their own trope pages include: ===~~ * ''[[~~The Whipping Boy (Literature)\|~~The Whipping Boy]]''▼ * ''[[McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm]]'' * ''[[The Ghost in the Noonday Sun]]'' {{creatortropes}} ▲* ''[[The Whipping Boy (Literature)\|The Whipping Boy]]'' * [[Death Byby Materialism]]: Near the end of ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun'', the pirates' worn-out old ship starts sinking, and they take to the lifeboats. Most of the pirates try to carry off as much treasure as they can, overload their boat, and sink too; one boat, containing all the sympathetic characters, takes only food and water, and survives.▼ ~~=== His other works provide examples of: ===~~ ▲* [[Death By Materialism]]: Near the end of ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun'', the pirates' worn-out old ship starts sinking, and they take to the lifeboats. Most of the pirates try to carry off as much treasure as they can, overload their boat, and sink too; one boat, containing all the sympathetic characters, takes only food and water, and survives. * [[Fearsome Critters of American Folklore]]: Appear in several of the McBroom books. * [[Gold Fever]]: The California gold rush of 1849 is the setting of ''By the Great Horn Spoon!'' * [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: The chapter titles in ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun''. * [[Massive -Numbered Siblings]]: Josh and Melissa McBroom have eleven kids -- Will, Jill, Hester, Chester, Peter, Polly, Tim, Tom, Mary, Larry, and Little Clarinda. Josh tends to [[Long List\|rattle their names off]] at least once a book. * [[Mountain Folklore]]: Several of Fleischman's books take place in frontier times. * [[Pirate]]: Most of the characters in ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun''. * [[Pirate Booty]], buried on a [[Deserted Island]] in [[The Spanish Main]]: What everybody's after in ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun''. * [[Popcorn Onon the Cob]]: In one of the McBroom tall tales, the weather becomes so hot that corn starts popping right off the stalks in the fields. * [[Stage Magician]]: Mr. Mysterious in ''Mister Mysterious and Company," Fleischman's first children's book. (Fleischman himself started his career doing stage magic acts in nightclubs.) * [[Tall Tales Teller]]: Possibly Josh McBroom, and by extension, definitely Fleischman himself.