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June 2015 Book of the Month This is everything a classic children’s book should be: it’s exciting, funny, has terrific central characters, a mystery to solve, and a truth – particular to childhood – to be revealed. Claudia Kincaid is fed up - as the oldest child, and a girl - with life’s injustices. So she runs away to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, taking her second youngest brother, Jamie, because he’s the best with money. It’s a marvellous adventure – they mingle with tourists, sleep in a medieval bed after everyone’s left, bath in the café fountain and scoop up change from its floor to boost their coffers! When a new exhibit is unveiled Claudia turns detective, determined to prove it the work of Michelangelo. Success will send her home a heroine, and that’s really important. The children’s search leads them to the statue’s original owner, the eponymous Mrs Frankweiler, someone who understands Claudia exactly and can give her what she needs. ~ Andrea Reece
Piece of Passion from Adam Freudenheim, Publisher, Pushkin Children's Books 'From the Mixed-up Files… was one of my childhood favourites, and my own children love it too. It's a simply magical, perfect book for any child with an imagination of about 7-10 who's ever visited a museum (or dreamed of running away, even for a moment). I'm delighted to (re)introduce it to British readers – nearly 50 years on its appeal is a strong as ever.'
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Synopsis
New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination (inevitably involving having to eat outside with the insects, and cupcakes melting in the sun); so she plans everything to perfection, including their destination: the grand, elegant, beautiful, all-encompassing Metropolitan Museum of Art.
However, no sooner have Claudia and Jamie settled into their new home, than they are caught up in the mystery of an angel statue bought by the museum for the bargain price of $225. Is it in fact an as yet undiscovered work by Michelangelo, worth millions? Claudia is determined to find out, and her quest leads her to the remarkable, secretive Mrs. Frankweiler, who sold the statue to the museum - and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.
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9781782690719 |
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4th June 2015 |
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E.L. Konigsburg |
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Pushkin Children's Books |
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Paperback |
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160 pages |
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Press Reviews
E.L. Konigsburg Press Reviews
'Mischievous and metropolitan... A wild rumpus... Japes abound New Yorker One of the finest storytellers of her era and genre... [From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler] is a story of discovery and self-discovery' Washington Post
'E. L. Konigsburg is one of our brainiest writers for young people, not only in the considerable cerebral powers she brings to her books but in the intellectual demands she makes on her characters' The New York Times
'It sticks in the mind like a personal memory, like a secret childhood experience. A perfect, miniature adventure' -- Wes Anderson, writer and director of 'Fantastic Mr. Fox', 'The Royal Tenenbaums and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler dominated my imagination in the way only a really good book can wholly inhabit the head of a child.....Re-reading it, is was, if anything, even more wonderful than I remembered" Hadley Freeman, Guardian
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About E.L. Konigsburg
The writer and illustrator E. L. Konigsburg (1930-2013) is one of the most celebrated writers of books for children and young adults. She is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor in the same year - a feat she achieved in 1968, for The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, respectively. Not only that, but she won the Newbery Medal again almost thirty years later, for The View from Saturday.
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