I just got done reading this book to my son. I wasn't really sure if he would like it because he likes books with a lot of action in them, but he said that he would give it 4 stars!
This is what I liked about it: I liked the mystery surrounding the statue, the dialogue between Claudia and Jamie (Jamie totally cracked me up!), the whole idea of running away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is ingenious!
There were really only two things that I didn't like about it, 1) I think that I would have liked the book better had it not been written in Mrs. Frankweiler's point of view, those little side comments to her lawyer, Saxonberg were a bit annoying, and 2) the children didn't seem to show any remorse for running away and causing their parents so much pain and heartache.
All in all a good read and I'm sure that I'll be reading it again before my children are grown and gone.