Well, I'm with you, Indigo. When I started on computers, you could only fit
in one per room. (Has anyone seen my walker?)
I missed this book. My kids missed this book. It sounds absolutely
wonderful! Wouldn't it be a boon to have it made into a movie (like Harry
Potter) with a trickle down effect on Museum attendance? Anyone have any
pull in that direction?
Andrea
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From: "Indigo Nights" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:30 PM
Subject: Mixed-Up Files
> Having once refused to do a huge, ugly filing job,
> where everything was filed numerically and by hand
> (way back in 1975 when the dinosaurs still roamed the
> face of the earth, LOL), and after having worked on
> computers in some form or another since 1973 (can you
> say mag card typewriter?), I find the thought of
> mixed-up files very disturbing. I shudder at the
> thought of my files being thrown all helter skelter
> (somewhat like my bedroom right this moment).
>
> What troubles me more is that we're discussing a book
> that I had NEVER in my life before heard of. It
> appears to have been THEE thing to read, and yet both
> my kids and I missed it.
>
> So, I wanted to know more about this book and what in
> the world was the list talking about.
>
> I found it is still available through Amazon.com (not
> a commercial, just my preferred source other than
> Ebay), and I was able to glean the following about the
> book (in case there are any others here on the list
> who had dinosaurs as pets and can't figure out what in
> the hell all the hubbub is about):
>
> From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
> by E. L. Konigsburg (Illustrator)
>
> List Price: $5.50
> Our Price: $5.50
> Used Price: $1.91
>
> (For what it's worth, I've recently tried their used
> books option and had great success.)
>
> Anyway, the reviews of the book on the Amazon site
> include:
>
> Editorial Reviews
> Amazon.com
> "After reading this book, I guarantee that you will
> never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any
> wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking
> into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother
> Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding
> until the museum closes and their adventure begins.
> Such is the impact of timeless novels . . . they never
> leave us. E. L. Konigsburg won the 1967 Newbery Medal
> for this tale of how Claudia and her brother run away
> to the museum in order to teach their parents a
> lesson. Little do they know that mystery awaits!"
>
> Book Description Read by Jan Miner Two cassettes / 3
> hours 32 mins.
>
> Twelve-year-old Claudia Kincaid is restlesses--she
> wants to do something different, such as running away
> from her comfortable suburban life in Connecticut for
> a while. But not just any place will do because
> Claudia likes her comforts. It needs to be a place
> with a bit of luxury and some good company. Ans she
> wants to be gone just long enough to teach her parents
> to appreciate her.
>
> With careful planning, Claudia stages her own secret
> live-in at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art,
> taking along her nine-year-old brother, not so much
> for company, but mostly because he is a miser and will
> have money. What happens to Claudia and Jamie, and the
> changes that come about in this sister-brother duo,
> prove greater than either had bargained for. --This
> text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
>
> Ingram
> Claudia and Jamie run away from home and wind up
> living at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they
> are privy to the introduction of a new statue and
> immediately are suspicious of its authenticity. 1968
> Newbery Medal; Library of Congress Children's Book of
> the Year; ALA Notable Children's Book.
>
> From the Publisher
> 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 live in comfort-at the Metropolitan Museum of
> Art. She invited her brother Jamie to go, too, mostly
> because he was a miser and would have money
>
> The two took up residence in 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 had discovered its maker, a question
> that baffled even the experts. The former owner of the
> statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler And without her
> help Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
>
> About the Author E.L. Konigsburg has never spent the
> night in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
> City, like the heroine of her Newbery Medal-winning
> novel, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
> Frankweiler, does. But she was born in New York, and
> she is a part-time painter. In fact she's done the
> illustrations for a number of books.
>
> Konigsburg did not grow up in the city. Her family
> moved to Pennsylvania when she was young, and most of
> her childhood was spent in small towns in that state.
> When she attended Carnegie Mellon University in
> Pittsburgh, she majored in chemistry, and after
> graduation she worked as a chemist, doing research and
> teaching. It wasn't until after she was married and
> had three children in school that Konigsburg began
> writing books.
>
> What is exceptional about Konigsburg is her ability to
> communicate convincingly from the point of view of a
> child. As the reviewer for The Horn Book said of
> Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me,
> Elizabeth, "The story is full...of situations
> completely in tune with the imaginations of
> ten-year-old girls." One of Konigsburg's characters,
> Ben in (George), has an ornery inner voice called
> George that seems to have come from the mind of a real
> child.
>
> Konigsburg, who now lives with her family in Ponte
> Vedra Beach, FL, is the author of many books for
> children with a wide variety of subjects and settings.
> One of them is a novelized biography of Eleanor of
> Aquitaine; several are collections of short stories;
> another is a historical novel about the Mona Lisa; and
> the rest are wonderful novels. Most of her books were
> named American Library Association Notable Children's
> Books, and a number were chosen by The Horn Book
> magazine for its Fanfare List. From the Mixed-Up Files
> of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and
> Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me,
> Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book.
>
>
> I sure do miss my old dinosaur!
>
>
>
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