4 Quotes & Sayings By Sid Fleischman

  Sid Fleischman is the author of The Adventures of the Black Stallion, which was voted one of America's best-loved children's books by the American Library Association in its Best Books for Young Adults list. That book has sold more than twenty million copies in forty languages. Sid's other books include The Magic Bus, Maggie and the Beanstalk, and The Little House. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before. Sid Fleischman
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I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches. Sid Fleischman
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Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book. Sid Fleischman