An excerpt, for today's bright and sunny, from E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler--the book that made me want to live in New York in the very first place:
Claudia loved the city because it was elegant; it was important and busy. The best place in the world to hide. She studied maps and the tour guide book of the American Automobile Association and reviewed every field trip her class had ever taken. She made a specialized geography course for herself. There were even some pamphlets about the museum around the house, which she quietly researched.
She also decided that she must get accustomed to giving up things. Learning to do without hot fudge sundaes was good practice for her. She made do with the Good Humor bars her mother always kept in their freezer. Normally, Claudia's hot fudge expenses were forty cents per week. Before her decision to run away, deciding what to do with the ten cents left over from her allowance had been the biggest adventure she had had each week.
7 maids a-milking:
Oh I love this book so much! This was one of my favorites growing up. I love the illustrations in the original.
Now I've got another book to read :) Thank you!
This is still one of my favorite books, I think. Who wouldn't want to go live in the Met?
Apartment problem solved.
I've never read it but I like the sound of it, it sounds positively magical.
Oh, Julia, Peonies, do read it! It's such fun.
Good thinking ESB; I went to look for a suitable sleeping arrangement this morning.
I too adored this book when I read it as a child. I must re-read it.
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