![]() ![]() ![]() But that’s not what The Mixed-Up Files is about. Snobby, dreamy Claudia Kinkaid, who at 11 years old knows “she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away,” decides to run away from her middle-class home in Greenwich, Connecticut, because she feels vaguely that she has too many chores, and also she is bored. Note: not me © The Metropolitan Museum of Art In The Mixed-Up Files, the Met is the perfect hiding place: comfortable and also beautiful The tour was technically meant for children ages 7 to 11, but earlier this month, I secured permission to tag along anyway and fulfill some childhood dreams. In celebration of the book’s 50th anniversary this year, the Met offered the next best thing: a tour of the highlights of the museum as experienced by the book’s protagonists, Claudia and Jamie Kincaid. The Mixed-Up Files tells the story of two children who run away from home to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and over the course of the book’s 50-year life - it’s celebrating its golden anniversary this year - it has instilled in multiple generations the deep desire to live in an art museum, surrounded by beauty and luxury. Part of it is that the fantasy of the story is always compelling. Frankweiler is, like its close contemporary Harriet the Spy, one of those books that you can love as a small child that holds up astonishingly well to adult rereading. ![]() Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. ![]()
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