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The Phantom Tollbooth (平装)
by Norton Juster
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Story, Fantacy, Ages 9-12, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 98.00
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¥ 78.00
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MSL rating:
 Good for Gifts |
| MSL Pointer Review:
One of the most enchanting, magical, and vividly told stories giving kids a huge appreciation of imagination. |
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Nicole Harpe (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
My father read this book to me the first year it was published. I was nine and it has been on my bookshelf since. I can't tell you how many copies of this I have purchased for people. This is a great book to encourage thinking, not simply memorizing. Each page contains new language, new ideas, new ways to play with learning. It also happens to be a wonderful story. I may have been too young at nine to read it on my own, but certainly it is a great read-aloud for children nine or a bit younger. At nine, I didn't understand all the fancies, but like the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, this book succeeds on many levels. The Phantom Tollbooth encourages a child's love for language. It paints wonderful pictures (with the help of Feiffer's charming line drawings). It is as perfect a thing as can be written. Oh, and if you're an adult without any children at home - buy the book for yourself. It will take you away from the Doldrums and into the Kingdom of Wisdom where your spirit can be renewed. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
This book is recommended for readers with a strong imagination. You could basically make up something in your mind, and would find it in the book. The book may be challenging for the young reader because of all big words, but if you’re willing to look them up, it should be pretty easy. Norton Juster, the author had a sense of humor just about anyone could get. I rated this book a four because all and all it could make a non reader want to know what might happen next. It wasn't a five because it didn't spark excitement in the beginning. But all around anyone would enjoy it. |
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Zagnorch (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
After my first reading of The Phantom Tollbooth, it became, and still remains, my favorite young reader book. I wrote two book reports on it for my middle school reading classes. I even received a copy of it as a tenth birthday present. Ever since, I've read it from cover to cover at least once a year. As a child, I enjoyed reading the strange adventures of a bored Milo embarking on his legendary quest. As an adult, I enjoy the tome's play on words, such as the whether man ("It's more important to know whether there will be weather, rather than what the weather will be") and the Isle of Conclusions, a place you have to jump to get there. I also love the book's personifying such abstract concepts as statistics, like the (literally) half a child that Milo meets who's the end result of the average family having 2.58 children. It also has neat takes on people's points of view, like the boy who grows down, rather than up. Needless to say, it's pretty apparent that even though I loved this book as a kid, I appreciate it much more as an adult. If you remember reading this as a child, I strongly recommend you give it a look again. You'll likely pick up on quite a few things in the story that you might not have gotten the gist of in your youth! |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
I read this book with my mom and we both loved it! This book has an interesting beginning, a strange middle and a suspenseful ending. The author put in lots of creative puns and amusing ways to use words. For example, Milo (the boy) thinks him going to meet a witch in the dungeon, but actually he meets a "Which" who chooses which words to say and which words not to say. I liked how numbers were gems and words were food. Personally, I believe that words are more valuable than numbers. I think the author just plain rocks! |
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Carol Burnett (MSL quote), Japan
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who lives a very dull and ordinary life. One day Milo wakes up and finds a large mysterious package among the many toys in his room. To Milo's disbelief the strange object is a tollbooth! Milo takes his old car and drives through the scary tollbooth unaware of the new and fascinating world he is about to experience. Milo finds himself in a strange world called Dictionopolis. Everybody in this strange land of Dictionopolis speaks in proverbs, similes and use very fancy language. Milo meets some very fascinating creatures while he is in Dictionopolis like: The nothings, the watch dog Tock and the King. The Phantom Tollbooth is a great book for children ages 10-13 who enjoy writing and playing around with words. |
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Margo Washington (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
If you ever thought that learning was just a waste of time and that there is nothing to do, then you've felt what Milo felt: everyday. For Milo everything was a waste of time, until he was sent a rather odd gift. It was in fact a tollbooth, and two tokens. Milo, knowing what one does with a tollbooth set it up and drove up to it, the funny thing is he now was on a real road. Milo takes different roads to different places and in each he learns to notice the ordinary: numbers, letters, sounds, colors and pictures and he realizes that they are in fact extraordinary. Milo gets to conduct color, to eat his words and to mine for numbers but all the time he is on a quest to bring back Rhyme and Reason the princesses of justice. In this odd land all is not well; nothing really has been well ever sense Rhyme and Reason were banished. It is up to Milo, a watchdog named Tock and the Humbug to rescue the princesses and return honesty and fairness to the kingdoms of this spectacular land. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Imagine that you are a little child, whom has no friends, and is always bored. When you are at school you want to be home, and visa versa. One day, a mysterious present is delivered that changes your whole life. The really wonderful book begins after about a chapter of introduction that I have summed up above. Little Milo ventures into a world of Doldrumms, Words and Numbers with little Rhyme or Reason. Though this book has a few sections that you can tell are the 'MAIN' parts of the story, all of the little, seemingly forgettable parts of the story are the ones that seem to stick with one for the longest amount of time. What parts do I mean? Well, you will just have to find out. |
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Eric (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
I read The Phantom Tollbooth when I was a kid and absolutely loved it. The strange characters who all seem to control something uncontrollable (sound, color, and so on) stayed with me for years afterwards, so that when I saw it on the bargain table in the book store I decided to pick it up again. It was only on re-reading it as an adult that the message of the book jumped out at me for the first time. Milo is a kid who doesn't think anything is interesting, and the lands beyond the Phantom Tollbooth teach him, bit by bit, how the world is full of fantastic things, and how knowledge is always worth pursuing. But finally seeing the metaphor behind such characters as the Awful Dinn or Canby (who is as brave as can be and as cowardly as can be) didn't make them any less entertaining. I suppose that's the exact test that a book has to pass to be fun for all ages- and this one is! |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The Phantom Tollbooth is a terrific story that can be enjoyed by all ages. Norton Juster has done an outstanding job inn creating a timeless adventure that would appeal to all. From its hilarious puns, to its attack on the normal use of language, to the allegorical sense of it, it is guaranteed to make you think. Its comical plot revolves around the character, Milo, a boy who is entirely bored with his life, as he goes on an amazing journey to places you couldn't believe. Throughout the entire duration of the book, you will laugh and think in ways you never dreamed possible. |
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Sesquipedalian (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
I loved The Phantom Tollbooth. It's the story of a bored and unimaginative kid called Milo, who finds a Tollbooth in his bedroom one day, and rides through it into an imaginary world that opens his eyes, as well as the reader's. Milo passes through the kingdoms of Dictionopolis, ruled by king Azaz, and Digitopolis, ruled by the Mathemagician. He encounters a symphony orchestra that "plays" the sunsets, a Whether Man (who cares more about whether there will be weather than what it will be), an Everpresent Wordsnatcher who lives far away from his homeland of Context, and he sets out on a quest to restore the princesses of Rhyme and Reason back to the land. Needless to say, when Milo returns home, he has a healthy imagination and a joy to live life! When I read this book as a kid, I was running to my dad every other page so that I could read aloud the parts that made me laugh. It's extremely clever. Even now that I'm in college, this book cracks me up. A lot of it was over my head back in the days when I thought it was the funniest book ever. There's one reason why I think this book very important. Every kid lives with a sense of wonder, but at some point it melts away, usually before the kid is even smart enough to appreciate what they've lost. The Phantom Tollbooth gave me a huge appreciation of imagination. After I read this book in seventh grade, I remember wishing that I could be a kid forever. I believed that imagination was the most important thing in the world. You know, when you get older, you just don't think that way. |
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