shoulder neither the tollbooth nor his room nor even the house was anywhere in sight. What had started as make-believe was now very real. "What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never. Get all the key plot points of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Plot Summary | LitCharts. The Phantom Tollbooth Introduction + Context. Plot Summary. Detailed Summary Analysis Chapter 1. · Norton Juster was an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera based on The Phantom Tollbooth/5.
The book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a magnificent story filled with word plays and idioms taken literally. The story starts off with a boy named Milo who is always bored with whatever he is doing. One day, while in his room he see a large box. He opens, and quickly realizes it is the contents for making a tollbooth. Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth has died at the age of 91 years old. This is probably not a tragedy. Juster lived a full and amazing life, and his legacy, via Tollbooth is all about tolerance and whimsy. He wrote countless children's books — both of the chapter book variety and several picture books, too — but he'll forever be associated with Tollbooth, and for good. 'Phantom Tollbooth' Author Norton Juster Dies The author of the beloved children's book reunited with its illustrator for the more recent The Odious www.doorway.ru was also an architect and he died.
About The Phantom Tollbooth. With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom. I have always loved The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I once had a print copy of this book.
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