کتاب فرار به موزه نیویورک نوشته‌ی کینگزبرگ است.این کتاب روایت دختری ماجراجو به نام کلودیا که از زندگی یکنواخت خود خسته شده و به دنبال هیجان هست،پس تصمیم می‌گیرد با برادرش جیمی به موزهٔ نیویورک (متروپولیتن) فرار کنند.کلودیا و جیمی میان نقاشی‌ها و مجسمه‌ها دنبال چیزی فراتر از یک خانه‌ی موقت‌اند: آن‌ها دنبال معنایی تازه برای خودشان‌اند. مجسمه‌ی مرموزی که شاید اثر میکل‌آنژ باشد، استعاره‌ای است از همین راز درونی انسان‌ها؛ ارزش واقعی، همیشه در نگاه اول آشکار نیست.کینگزبرگ با زبانی ساده و سرشار از ذکاو...

At least 20 years ago, I read this book for the first time, and I can say that I have never looked at a fountain the same way!Twelve-year-old Claudia decides to run away with her younger brother Jamie. Tired of living a boring life, Claudia sets her sights on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. One day, they notice an exhibit, an angel with a mystery. Did the famous Michelangelo create this sculpture? Will Claudia and Jamie get to the bottom of this mystery?The first half of this book i...

all i would like is to be a girl in the greater new york area who spends her entire allowance on hot fudge sundaes, up to the point where she saves it to go to the city and live in a museum and sleep in a historical bed the description of which i STILL remember, approximately 15 years later.

seeing as this does not seem like too much to ask for, i will begin my wait now.

part of a project i'm doing where i review books i read a long time ago and think about hot fudge sundaes.

Wow, I haven't been this uncomfortable about two related family members bathing naked together since Out Stealing Horses.Wither.Why? Why would the author write a scene of a prepubescent 12-year-old sister frolicking naked in a bath with her 9-year-old brother?I'm three years older than my brother, and when I was 12, I can promise you, I would have been far more inclined to hold his head underwater for five minutes than I would have been to stand naked before him, splashing him.Come on now. Make ...

This was my son's first book he read entirely in English (he is a rapid read of books in French already!) so I felt I needed to read it too. What a pleasant surprise! We both loved Jaime and Claudia and their adventures while running away and camping out in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. It is a touching book with lots of life lessons; my favorite quote is "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling place, but there is always a corner of it that keeps flapping around." (P 155)I have to t...

My oldest grandson Philip is an avid reader, a trait my wife and I like to encourage. He'd encountered this Newbery award winner in his school library, and wanted to own a copy, so we gave him one for his 11th birthday last fall. When he discovered that I'd never read it (it was first published in 1967, by which time I was in high school, and focusing my reading on more "grown-up" books), he wanted to share it with me, so he loaned me his copy. (Last year, he likewise introduced me to another ki...

99c Kindle sale, Oct. 23, 2017. This short novel is a classic of middle grade fiction, and the 1968 Newbery Award winner. Eleven year old Claudia decides to run away from home. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night seven-thirty television show, of injustice, and of the monotony of everything.You can tell this is set in an earlier time, before our media entertainment options multiplied. :) Because her little brother Jamie is a lot better at saving money than ...

There are certain, special books that I don't want to give up once finished. I guess to prolong the separation and perhaps to somehow physically absorb whatever magic it possesses, I'll find myself pressing my palms against the book, sandwiching it. It doesn't happen very often. But it did happen with this book.I had never read this book growing up. But I'm so glad that I finally got around to it.What is it that makes this book so wonderful? Let's begin with Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler's clever na...

OK, I'll admit it: I freakin' hate the Newbery Medal. Any time I see it on the cover of a book, I'm 98.5% sure it sucks. All of the books that have been given this "honor" seem to have been written with the intent of teaching kids some crappy history lesson. There's no magic or mystery to any of them...reading these books is akin to eating dry toast when you know damned well you could cover the bread with butter, cinnamon, and sugar. I mean, if you really want to martyr yourself, do it creativel...

I first read this book when I was 7-going-on-8. I read it, and then I read it again. Then I read it again, and kept going until, according to my personal mythology, I had read it 11 times. And then I stole my school's copy of the book. I hadn't picked it up for many years since then, but this book is woven into my neural pathways every which way, and rereading it still makes me love it more.The Mixed-Up Files drew me in with its details and paraphernalia (the instrument cases! the transistor rad...