![]() ![]() and you’ll marvel at wit, complexity, and its understanding of how children perceive the passage of time. Critics in the New York Times and Life Magazine likened the book to Lewis Carroll's famous Alice. ![]() When he published The Phantom Tollbooth in 1961 it was an instant classic. Norton Juster was an architect by training and worked as a professor of design at Hampshire College in his native England. A classic indeed.” -Los Angeles Review of Books“You loved the humor and adventure. Norton Juster and The Phantom Tollbooth Background. I still have the book report I wrote, which began ‘This is the best book ever.’”-The New York Times“The Phantom Tollbooth is the closest thing we have to a modern Alice in Wonderland.”-The Guardian“The book lingers long after turning the final page. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams.Features an appreciation by Maurice Sendak, award-winning author of Where the Wild Things Are!“I read first when I was ten. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. But on the other side, things seem different. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. humorous, full of warmth and real invention” (The New Yorker), this beloved story-first published more than fifty ago-introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. ![]()
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