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This was an enjoyable reread of a book I haven‘t read in several years. The idea of running away and hiding in a museum is a fun one, and there‘s a bit of a mystery for Claudia and Jamie to investigate as well.

It‘s also been a while since I spent a quiet Friday night with a book and cup of tea, and it was very much appreciated.

#MiddleGrade #MsDsLibrary

I took a Little Free Library book! I‘ve been wanting to read it (or reread it?) since reading Dash & Lily‘s Book of Dares.
I‘ve donated at this #LFL before but I don‘t see it registered on the website.
#93599

Any Dash & Lily fans?

When Claudia and her brother decide to run away from home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they are pulled into a fascinating adventure!

#CoverStories #Running

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

I know I read this as a kid but I didn‘t really remember it. It was published in the 60s and the language really feels like it. One character‘s favorite line is “oh baloney!” 😆

It‘s a cute middle grade read, low pick for me. I looked up to see if there was a movie made, and there was in the 70s, called The Hideaways.

I feel like it probably inspired A Night at the Museum, but there‘s no magic here, just two kids staying in a museum.

Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about”

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

‘To my lawyer, Saxonberg
I can‘t say that I enjoyed your last visit.‘
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about“

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

“Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about“

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about“

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

Contemporary Realistic Fiction- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

“Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about“

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

Well, Saxonberg, that's why I'm leaving the drawings of Angel to Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, your two lost grandchildren that you were so worried about“

I thought that the point of view in which this story was told (revealed at the end) makes the story very interesting. Since it is a chapter book this would have to be used with the older grades. I would use this story to talk about POV within texts.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg was published in 1967. This is a story that follows two young children who are siblings who run away from home in an attempt to make their absence noticeable to their parents. The children go to the Metropolitan Art Museum and from there meet many interesting characters and interesting circumstances.

I‘ve missed a bunch of prompts for #SchoolSpirit because, well, life. And I‘m not sure what the rest of the month will bring, but I‘m going to jump in when I can! Starting here… Claudia planned a #FieldTrip of sorts to the Met for her and her brother. A fun read!

1. It might be the recency effect, but I love Planet Word in Washington, DC. I also love to visit the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, if that is considered a museum.

2. My very favorite since Ms. Kowalik read it to our class in third grade!

Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView ! #Two4Tuesday

Favorite museum is hard!
-Most impactful: the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Berlin. The pitch black room except for a sliver of light in the ceiling far above taught me how architecture can be both art and argument.
-Most nostalgic: the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, more of a science center than a museum.
-Most Unexpectedly Fascinating: the National Archives in DC - saw the actual records of the Glory troops!

#TwoForTuesday @TheSpineView

#Two4Tuesday

1. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (the old one) which houses the most remarkable collection of ancient objects (one more impossibly beautiful than the last) I‘ve ever seen. The Louve, a building as fascinating as the art within, and The Art Institute of Chicago which has my favorite John Singer Sargent painting along with many other favs.

2. Tagged—who doesn‘t love the idea of moving into a museum?!?

@TheSpineView

1. So many! Loved the Smithsonians!!

2. 🩷🩷

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @IndoorDame @CoffeeNBooks

A favorite of mine-I‘ve read it countless times…so clever

#ArtGallery

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

@wildalaskabibliophile made this fun Litsy Challenge. Everyone is invited to play:
1. Tag a favorite mystery you've read
2. What is your favorite way to prepare eggs?

Here's mine:
1. Since it's #throwbackthursday: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
2. If I have to prepare the eggs, I like them over-easy on toast. But my favorite kind to eat is eggs benedict. 😂
#nationaleggmonthchallenge

Rereading this with my daughter was wonderful! The magic of running away to live in the MET still resonated, but I loved Claudia's journey to understand herself even more than I did as a child. I loved how the differences between Claudia and her brother Jamie helped them grow as their different personalities taught them to compromise. Her exploration of her own motivations will stay with her much longer than her week in the museum.

This book holds up so well! Still one of my favorite books!
@IndoorDame thanks for putting it back on my radar!

#NewberryAward

1. Basil from The Great Mouse Detective, Meg from Hercules, and Belle!
2. The tagged would be super neat I think! Honestly I just really want a movie version 😂

What a fun trip down memory lane! I think my fantasies of sneaking into the MET after hours and sleeping in those mind blowing rooms started before I ever read this and were probably inspired by Corduroy‘s nighttime department store adventures, but those fantasies made me immediately fall in love with this story, and in turn, reading this kept that fantasy alive in me (and a whole generation of NY children) for many years after.

I was feeling sad that my reread was on audio and I‘d miss out on reliving all the original illustrations, so I went searching for some of the images online and found this gem that perfectly describes the mixed emotions of revisiting a favorite childhood book https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bed

I had to check this one off my list this #MiddleGradeMarch. It seems impossible I never read it as a kid. It was enjoyable but I might have enjoyed it more reading than audio.

1 Nov-2 Dec 22
Good book to read with Trix prior to our trip to New York. I loved the fact that the siblings ran away to the Met and it was fun to walk through a few of the rooms whilst we were there and speculate whether they contained the beds slept in. I love reading books and watching movies set in locations we intend to visit and I do think it helps children get excited about vacations.

📖 12-10-22 || Love this just as much as I did when I read it in 4th grade (decades ago!). I love this special edition so much with the original illustrations, the photos of the author‘s correspondence with the editor, and invitation to the Newbery award ceremony in 1968.

I put this on hold as soon I saw today‘s prompt was #ArtMuseaumDay. I think every geeky little kid in NY dreamed about sneaking into the regency rooms in the Met after hours & playing on the furniture whether they read this book or not. It was Rodin room that made me first fall in love w the place, by I went back nearly every weekend for a year & those rooms became an obsession for me long before I discovered this gem of a book. #NovemberNarrative

The Metropolitan Muséum of Art figures prominently in this Newbery award winner…

#ArtMuseumDay #NovemberNarrative @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Roll100 picks for October!
@PuddleJumper

Books: The tagged is a favorite, but I also loved: Fall of Giants (Ken Follett), The Firm (John Grisham), The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
Authors: Jasper Fforde, Ken Follett, C.S. Forester, Tana French
Movies: Funny Girl, From Russia with Love
Singers: Freddy Mercury, Ella Fitzgerald
Songs: Fire and Ice (James Taylor), Fly Me to the Moon (Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie), From This Moment On (Shania Twain)

#manicmonday

Books I finished in August 2022 📚 ✨️
5 🌟: From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler, I Am a Cat Barista, Wrapped Up in You, Always Only You, You Got Anything Stronger?, Strange Love
4 🌟: Playing the Palace, Davo, The Ghosts of Rose Hill, Recitatif
3 🌟: Dark and Shallow Lies, Witchlight

This is one of the books I read as a child that has stuck with me the most, but I put off rereading this childhood favorite because I feared it wouldn't hold up. Turns out I had nothing to worry about; it's still wonderful. 😇

Something a little lighter to balance out my heavier reads this year. Definitely hit that spot.
Also part of the #roll100 for this month.

Reader Harder Challenge 2021: Read a Middle Grade Mystery

While many read this book in grade or secondary school, I never had a pleasure. Enjoying it for the first time as an adult not old scared the beegeebees out if this Momma but was also fun! I so thankful they were never in any harm on their adventures but goodness the thought of it kept me on my toes and I read the book clear through in two sittings over my lunch break and split shift.

Loved it! Such a great middle grade novel. Running away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a mystery, and witty sibling banter make this an enjoyable read.

Claudia and her brother run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

As a child, I loved this author and her stories, I still enjoy these books as an adult.

This is a delightful read for kids (and adults) of any age. Creative, imaginative and inspiring. Wish I had had the imagination to have run to something when I was at these kids age. This is a delightful read for kids (and adults) of any age. Maybe, at my age it would be the adventure of my later years. It's a thought. The first thought is:
Where do I want to run away to? The second is who would I want to run with me?