The Whipping Boy, (Paperback)

from shelf-employed

Catching up on older classics, I recently read Sid Fleischman's Newbery Medal winning book from 1986, The Whipping Boy. I'm not sure if it would win a Newbery Medal if it were published today, because later stories (like Kate DiCamillo's, The Tale of Despereaux and The Magician's Elephant), perha...

from agrudzien

Jemmy is the Whipping Boy at the castle for the worst prince in history - Prince Brat. When Jemmy and the Prince leave the castle one night they are kidnapped by a highway man and Jemmy must use all of his brains to get them out of the mess...especially when the prince is determined to be just as...

from cherzog

Prince Brat is a spoiled prince who chooses to purposefully do wrong in order that his whipping boy Jemmy receives his punishment. The prince decides to runaway and take the whipping boy with him. The two boys get into many situations including being taken hostage by two men who want to use the p...

from avcr

Learning to forgive, learning to think critically about why a person behaves in a certain manner, and learning to appreciate and accept all walks of people. Although Fleishman sets the stage in a far off place/long ago time of Princes, Kings and peasants, the problems of poverty, authority figure...

from klburnside

I listened to this book, the 1987 Newberry winner, over the course of about a month. Every time I started listening, I fell asleep. I am not exaggerating when I say I listened to the first 10 minutes about 20 times. I loved the voices and accents of some of the characters and I enjoyed listening ...