From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Aladdin - Aladdin
Release date: 1998-04-01
Paperback
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Action & Adventure - General, Art (painting sculpture artists architecture etc.), Classics, Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General, Juvenile Fiction / Art & Architecture, Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Family - Siblings, Social Issues - Runaways, Crime & mystery, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ne, Runaways, Self-reliance
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Date undefinedI had to read this in 5th grade and it was torture throughout. The story was good but the way it was written gave no true human reactions and it was a normal book with a weird displaced mistery put into it.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Date undefinedI received 8 of 10 individual orders of this used novel within a few days and the other two before the deadline. The quality of the novels was overall good - perfect covers and very slight yellowing. I had one query from a vendor for which I received a prompt reply from the vendor and from Amazon. I'm very satisfied.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Date undefinedAs I child I would have wanted to be Claudia: brave enough to run away, worldly enough to live in a museum, and smart enough to figure out the "cupid" mystery. But having read it only a few days ago, as an adult, I'd like to have written some of lines author E.L. Konigsburg attributed to her narrator Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Here are two examples:
"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
"...Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow."
Note: Find a new edition that contains Ms. Konigsburg's Afterword. You'll like her discussion of things around and in the museum that have change, or stayed the same, since she wrote the book.
