I love this book. I must have read it when I was a kid - I know I did - but beyond the museum, and the statue, I remembered almost nothing. Which was great, because I got to discover it all over again. It starts a tad slow, as Claudia meticulously plans her running away, but once they hit the mu...
Interesting framing devise that you forget about till you reach the end *grin* I found this one charming and interesting. And imagine every child with a minimum possibility of ever be able to reach the NY Museum would find it a million times more thrilling. There's is no magic more real, more so...
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore...
I didn't read this when I was a kid like all my friends seem to have done, but I don't think I necessarily would have liked it any better then than I did now. It was all a little too "cutesy" for my taste, and while the motives were fairly believable for children, it's still hard for the main charac...
As an adult reading this for the first time, I really had to shut off a good portion of my brain that concerns itself with 'plausibility' and 'child safety', etc. Once I did that I really had a jolly old time! On one level, the most important level really, this is fabulous escapist fiction for kids....
I had never read this before, and I'm trying to fill in some gaps: there are a lot of Newbery winning books that I have never read. It was interesting to read this one, thinking about how the world used to be before social media and 9/11 and everything that we live with these days. It was a sweet, n...
Totally forgot about this book until someone mentioned it the other day. I need to flip over it and try to remember what I enjoyed about it. Don't really remember any of it.
Out daughter, 8, mostly enjoyed this book. I don't think she was as seized by the mystery as I was, and after rating this 4 star, has gone back to her book of palindromes. I'll stick by my 5 star rating even after the reread; this story is just that good.
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