From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Kid Toy and the grit

and the grit

before the development of manual dexterity which enables a child to hold a paint brush

or toy chest-bound

When you bring Lyle the Crocodile into your home

Gwendolyn Brooks

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Kid Toy and the gritWhen Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on