Sixty-eight rooms / Marianne Malone 274 p.

Sixty-eight rooms / Marianne Malone 274 p.

While on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Ruthie and Jack find a magical key that shrinks them down to miniatures of themselves...small enough to view the Thorne Rooms from inside the rooms themselves.  These rooms come alive through their eyes.  When they sneak into the museum to spend the night they have several adventures.  Outdoors, near the French doors of room E24, they meet Sophia who lives in Paris of the 1780s.   In the colonial American room they meet Tom.  What an adventure.  What child won't want to go adventuring like this.  I'm ready to see the Thorne Rooms again.



See the Thorne Rooms  The Thorne Rooms are a series of miniature rooms set in a wide variety of time periods.  Some of the rooms that appear in the story are listed below.

French Salon of the Louis XVI Period, c. 1780   E24
Japanese Traditional Interior, c. 1937 E31
French Bedroom, Late 16th Century E17
English Drawing Room of the Georgian Period, c. 1880, E12