[1] For the body of his work he was the United States author nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2012.

[7] Before writing full-time, he worked as a bagel baker, library shelver, bookstore clerk, and proofreader, the last leading to his grammar watchdog groups Colonwatch and The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to English.

[9] Multiple points of view have been a hallmark of his fiction, beginning with Bull Run (1993), one of the first multiple-viewpoint novels published for children.

This format was further explored in Seedfolks, the 50-voice aural collage Seek, the seven-plays-in-one Zap, and the joined Cinderella variants in Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal.

Paul Fleischman has also won awards from the Commonwealth Club of California and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.