A to Z Challenge: More Fictional Favorites! Day 13: Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth

M is for — Milo from Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth

One of my favorite books when I was growing up was The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. In it, I met Milo, a young boy who spends his days in perpetual boredom. He has no interest in anything at all and thinks everything, particularly learning, a waste of time. There is nothing he wants to do, nowhere he wants to go, and nothing worth seeing.

Then he comes home from school one day and finds a huge package in his room — a magical t...