Read this as a child and loved it. Re-read as a bedtime read-aloud and boys loved it just as much.

I loved everything about this Newberry Award winning story published in 1967. My 12-year-old self, heck my 32-year-old self could totally relate to Claudia, that need to feel just a little bit different on the inside from everybody else. I loved the banter between Claudia and Jamie and it was true to my own older sister/younger brother dynamic growing up. I loved Mrs. Frankweiler's spark. And, I especially loved the lesson of listening to what's inside you.

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I loved rereading this as an adult. It was an amazing throwback to reread it as a grown up to compare to when I read it in grade school. It's a sweet and childlike story and I enjoyed the fanciful ideas of hiding out in a museum. I recommend it as a reread but probably wouldn't recommend it if the nostalgia isn't a mitigating factor.

This was one of my favorite books as a kid. I always wanted to live in the Met.

I'd never read this book before as a kid and I'm sad for my childhood because I was really missing out! To me, this was like the city version of My Side of the Mountain. As a kid, I always imagined running away and living on my own, so I have a huge soft spot for these kinds of stories.

I loved Claudia and Jamie's relationship. I like all kinds of sibling relationships, but it's almost difficult now to find a story where the siblings bicker but still rely on and genuinely like each other. The pacing was kind of slow but I feel like it suited the story and added kind of an air of mystery up to the big reveal at the end. I didn't really know where the story was going but I enjoyed it immensely the whole way through.

I loved this book as a kid.

I love this book! I read it around 4th grade. I can remember that because I lent it to my teacher to read to the class, the class got bored of it, and then my teacher LOST my book! It's a good one though.

Not gonna lie, I picked this book up because of a reference to it in “The Office”. I love it! I look forward to reading it to my niece and my children in the hopes that it sparks an interest in art, the MET, and reading!

I'll confess that I should have read this a long, long time ago, and have had a copy of it that I purchased on a visit to Pooh Corner books (one of my childhood haunts) floating around in my car for months. I figured there was no time more appropriate than an impending visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to get it in gear! This would be a superb read-aloud for elementary classes (where it already has a well-established home), and affords all kinds of teaching points from art appreciation to research skills. An afterword in my copy explains how much of the museum has changed in the years since it was written, so I didn't get to see many of the big things that the book depicts, but still, it was fun to visit the museum right after reading it.

Such a great book! Extremely creative and thought provoking. As a child it was one of my favorite stories and I highly recommend it.