A New York Times article also provided inspiration. How had that lonely piece of popcorn arrived on the seat of that blue silk chair? Had someone sneaked in one night-it could not have happened during the day-slipped behind the barrier, sat in that chair, and snacked on popcorn? For a long time after leaving the museum that day, I thought about that piece of popcorn on the blue silk chair and how it got there." 2. There was a velvet rope across the doorway of the room. Konigsburg wrote later that she was visiting the Met with her three children, going through the period rooms on the museum’s first floor “when I spotted a single piece of popcorn on the seat of a blue silk chair. Frankweiler began with a piece of popcorn on a chair. Frankweiler from a visit to the Met.Ī kernel of the idea for From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Konigsburg got the idea for From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Here are a few things you might not have known about From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. This beloved children’s book-about a girl and her younger brother who run away to New York City, live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and try to solve the mystery of who sculpted its newest statue-is a staple of elementary school reading lists.
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