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Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

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Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet lovable Humbug, the Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked "Which," Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the "impossible" mission of returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.

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" I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'"
-Anna Quindlen, The New York Times

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"A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."
-The New Yorker

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" I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'"

--Anna Quindlen, The New York Times

"A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."

--The New Yorker

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ulisesf, June 11, 2009 (view all comments by ulisesf)
I haven't read the book,I saw the movie when I was a child, I simply loved the story, I'd like to read it, every day comes to me a scene from the movie and it's helpful in everyday's life, as everybody knows a book is more powerful than any picture so I've missed a lot. Bye
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Kimberly Dull, January 6, 2009 (view all comments by Kimberly Dull)
I first read this book in 6th grade and fell in love with it. It's a truly original, fantastical story and is up there with "Alice in Wonderland" in its silly, nonsensical fun. I recently bought it for my godson, and I hope he lends it to me.
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Cathy from Olympia, Washington, July 13, 2008 (view all comments by Cathy from Olympia, Washington)
Milo discovers that a largish package has mysteriously appeared in his room, containing "one genuine turnpike tollbooth." Milo assembles the tollbooth and drives past "for lack of anything to do," quickly finding himself in a totally different world...

Juster's novel is a wonderful play on words throughout-- for example in Dictionopolis, land where letters and words are grown for local use and export, one literally eats one's words. And Milo is accompanied on his adventures by Tock, a "watchdog" who ticks and Humbug from the "noble ... Insecticus humbugium" family. I would share more, but don't want to spoil the fun! One of my favorite books ever.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780394820378
Author:
Juster, Norton
Publisher:
Random House
Illustrator:
Feiffer, Jules
ill.:
Feiffer, Jules
Author:
Feiffer, Jules
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Children's fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Action & Adventure
Subject:
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Fantasy
Subject:
Fantastic fiction
Subject:
Fantasy
Subject:
Children's stories, American
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
Puns and punning
Subject:
Action & Adventure - General
Subject:
Fantasy & Magic
Subject:
Imaginary places
Copyright:
c196
Edition Number:
35
Edition Description:
Anniversary
Series Volume:
125
Publication Date:
October 1988
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Elementary and junior high
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
7.15x5.24x.70 in. .39 lbs.
Age Level:
08-12
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