So how can you put down a book that begins..."It was raining bullfrogs." You can't. And before long you meet a villain with "eyes as wet and baggy as live oysters!"
Does anyone write melodrama and tall tales better than Sid Fleischman? I doubt it. Winner of the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy, Sid and his son Paul are the only father/son pair to each win the coveted award.
Peter Sis's illustrations lend an appropriately eerie tone to The Midnight Horse.
(Note: The concluding chapter is inaptly titled "Black Magic". 84 pages. 1990.
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