书名：The Whipping Boy王子的替罪羊
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数570L
作者：Sid Fleischman
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780060521226
商品尺寸：13 x 0.5 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：112
The Whipping Boy《王子的替罪羊》是美国作家Sid Fleischman写的一本儿童文学小说，讲述的是发生在十八世纪的有趣故事，孤儿杰米是专门替王子挨板子的“替罪羊”，后来，他和王子一起偷跑出了王宫，开始了一系列的冒险……
本书荣获1987年纽伯瑞金奖，并被改编成电影。

Award-winning author Sid Fleischman blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel, winner of the Newbery Medal.
Review
“With his flair for persuading readers to believe in the ridiculous, Fleischman scores a hit.”  —PublishersWeekly

“A rollicking tale of adventure and mistaken identity, written in a style reminiscent of 19th-century melodrama.”  —KirkusReviews

“A top-notch read-aloud.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Eminently satisfying.”  —ALA Booklist

“The Whipping Boy is a quick, fast-paced book full of wisdom and heart. It delivers a full-scale story in a short, accessible format.”  —Brightly
从前有一个住在城堡里的小王子，因为太过调皮，时常闯祸。国王找了一个住在街上的穷小子当作“替罪羊”，代替小王子承担过错。一次机缘巧合，他们偷偷从城堡里跑了出来，却遭遇坏人绑架。在和坏人周旋的过程中，两个小男孩渐渐相互信任，并建立起深厚的友谊……

A Prince and a PauperJemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.

Sid Fleischmanwrote more than sixty books for children, adults, and magicians. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal for his novel The Whipping Boy. The author described his wasted youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography TheAbracadabra Kid. His other titles include TheEntertainer and the Dybbuk, a novel, and three biographies, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World;The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; and Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini.
The young prince was known here and there (and just about everywhere else) as Prince Brat. Not even black cats would cross his path.
One night the king was holding a grand feast. Sneaking around behind the lords and ladies, Prince Brat tied their powdered wigs to the backs of their oak chairs.
Then he hid behind a footman to wait. When the guests stood up to toast the king, their wigs came flying off.
The lords clasped their bare heads as if they’d been scalped. The ladies shrieked.
Prince Brat (he was never called that to his face, of course) tried to keep from laughing. He clapped both hands over his mouth. But out it ripped, a cackle of hah-hahs and haw-haws and hee-hee-hees.
The king spied him and he looked mad enough to spit ink. He gave a furious shout.
“Fetch the whipping boy!”
Prince Brat knew that he had nothing to fear. He had never been spanked in his life. He was a prince! And it was forbidden to spank, thrash, cuff, smack, or whip a prince.
A common boy was kept in the castle to be punished in his place.
“Fetch the whipping boy”
The king’s command traveled like an echo from guard to guard up the stone stairway to a small chamber in the drafty north tower.
An orphan boy named Jemmy, the son of a rat- catcher, roused from his sleep. He’d been dreaming happily of his ragged but carefree life before he’d been plucked from the streets and sewers of the city to serve as royal whipping boy.
A guard shook him fully awake. “On your feet, me boy.”
Jemmy’s eyes blazed up. “Ain’t I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What’s the prince done now?”
“Let’s not keep the great folks waitin’, lad.”
In the main hail, the king said, “Twenty whacks” Defiantly biting back every yelp and cry, the whipping boy received the twenty whacks. Then the king turned to the prince. “And let that be a lesson to you!”