From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.
Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.
The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her–well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
Review
Kim Gruschow
Twelve-year-old Claudia decides to run away from her frustrations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She takes her brother Jamie, carefully selected because of his pocket money savings and ability to keep secrets. Their routine at the Met involves sleeping in an antique bed, fishing coins out of the fountain and learning about the exhibits.
Claudia is particularly enchanted by a newly donated sculpture, said to be by Michelangelo, and the two children become determined to find out the truth about the beautiful angel.
Konigsburg writes delightfully. She is deeply considerate of the feelings that children have and takes seriously the problems they face. Claudia and Jamie are smart, independent and curious, making for a book that has been adored by similarly thoughtful children of all ages since its publication in 1967.
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