‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ by Norton Juster

Sundays | 12:00pm

About the Author

Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.

The story follows Milo, a boy who is disenchanted with life until he encounters a mysterious tollbooth that transports him to the fantastical Kingdom of Wisdom. The main conflict in The Phantom Tollbooth is twofold. The narrative goal is to save the Princesses Rhyme and Reason, but the psychological goal is to overcome boredom in order to learn well.

Not everyone in the publishing world of the 1960s embraced The Phantom Tollbooth. Many said that it was not a children's book, the vocabulary was much too difficult, and the ideas were beyond kids. To top it off, they claimed fantasy was bad for children because it disorients them.

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