Read more in urban planning and learning to ride a motorcycle. He grew up (carefully) in Brooklyn, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing graduate work. There are still a number of people who attribute that catastrophic event directly to his birth. Norton Juster was born in New York State in 1929, just prior to the Great Depression of 1929. Read more there when he gets back from school? This new edition of Norton Juster’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by award-winning author, Diana Wynne Jones. He meets the weirdest and most unexpected characters (such as Tock, the watchdog, the Gelatinous Giant, and the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing over and over again), and, once home, can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. Milo’s extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers bringing these timeless story to a new generation. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education (J) Children / Juvenile. Description for The Phantom Tollbooth (Essential Modern Classics) Paperback.
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