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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster,

Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: October 31, 2020

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Sep 22, 2011 Audrey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own-hard-copy, all-time-favorites, humor-satire-goofy, 2019-re-reads-and-misc

My copy of this book is so old — there’s no bar code, and at the top it says 95¢. This is one of the books that my dad read to me when I was little. A lot of the puns went over my head, but I loved the world and the goofy characters, and I’d stare at the map for a long time. By now I’ve read it quite a few times but almost seem to notice something new.

The whole book is a play on words with lots of idioms expressed literally:

“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo. ...more

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Jan 19, 2015 Josh Caporale rated it really liked it

4.5 stars

This has Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass written all over it. I really like what this book is getting at and how it gets at it. The structure and the pacing are sometimes a little rushed, but I think I have an idea as to why Juster goes about conducting his book this way.

Here's a review from my blog: http://caponomics.blogspot.com/2015/0... ...more

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Feb 06, 2016 Laura (Reading is a Doing Word) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-trad-and-modern, all-time-favourites, childrens

I fell a little bit in love with this book! Such wonderful imagination and wordplay but also some very worthwhile observations about life. Love, love, loved it!

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