Soupbone

by Sidney Offit

Illustrations by Paul Galdone

142 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Sidney Offit has written novels, books for young readers, and memoirs including, most recently, Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen. He was senior editor of Intellectual Digest, book editor of Politics Today, and contributing editor of Baseball Magazine. He wrote the foreword to Look at the Birdie, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s unpublished short fiction.

Reviews

[Guy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this as a youngster. My father was friends with the author having met him at the Aladdin Hotel in Woodbourne, NY... the Catskill mountains, in the 1950s. By coincidence Mr. Offit lived in Manhattan and my father's business was around the corner from Mr. Offit's residence. He gifted me his novels, the ones he hadn't already given to my father. I enjoyed his writing style. One novel was about a young enterprising boy who made a million (that was the title). An acknowledgment to my father and uncle prefaced the book. That is pretty darn special.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in 4th grade and have always loved it. It still has an honored place on my bookshelf.