My whole life, I thought that Roald Dahl was the author of the book called The Whipping Boy.  Just now, I was helping a kid look it up on the library catalog, and behold:  Fleischman, Sid is the author.  As soon as I looked at the book's cover, however, I was instantly transported to 1989 (or whenever I read this book for the first time) and ( Read more... )