The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Chapter Books" |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Year of Publication: | 1961 |
| Date Read: | 08/31/1997 |
| Notes: | "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "There's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull. COMMENTS — Norton Juster also wrote The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics. |
| My Rating: | 6 |