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THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Norton Juster,Jules Feiffer | 256 pages | 01 Jul 1993 | Random House USA Inc | 9780394820378 | English | New York, United States The Phantom Tollbooth - Wikipedia Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Added to Watchlist. Watched in Elementary School Movies that should be on Blu-ray but aren't. Book Adaptations. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Butch Patrick Milo Mel Blanc Princess of Sweet Rhyme voice Shepard Menken Kakofonous A. Tock The Watchdog voice Les Tremayne Edit Storyline Milo is a boy who is bored with life. Edit Did You Know? Goofs When Milo meets the Which, she addresses him by name even though he never told her what it was. Quotes Lethargians : Laughing is against the law, and smiling is permitted only on alternate Thursdays. Discovery and delight do not come at the end of the trail, but along the way. The going is the goal. Time Out Paris wrote that the story has "too many lessons" but "some very nice ideas". Alex Tse wrote the first draft. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Phantom Tollbooth Theatrical release poster. Release date. Running time. This article needs an improved plot summary. Please edit this article to provide one. May May Retrieved 15 February Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 29, — via Newspapers. Psychology Today Interview. Interviewed by Mary Harrington Hall. Sussex Publishers. September 15, October 21, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 11 March Retrieved November 29, Time Out Paris. TV Guide. Radio Times. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved November 2, First Showing, LLC. First Showing LLC. Retrieved April 14, The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved Retrieved October 24, Chuck Jones. Rabbit, Duck! NPR Choice page Juster had no input into the adaptation, and has expressed his hatred for the film in an interview: "It was a film I never liked. I don't think they did a good job on it. It's been around for a long time. It was well reviewed, which also made me angry. Milo, a bored boy who lives in a San Francisco apartment block, is surprised by a large, gift-wrapped package that has appeared in his room. The package turns out to be a tollbooth which is a gateway into a magical parallel universe. As Milo uses the tollbooth's toy car to pass through the tollbooth, the character moves from live action to animation, and after getting accustomed to this he drives further, and is transported to the enchanted Kingdom of Wisdom in the Lands Beyond and the states of Dictionopolis Kingdom of Words and Digitopolis Kingdom of Mathematics. Accompanied by Tock, a "watchdog" who actually has a large pocketwatch in his body, Milo has a series of adventures in places like the Doldrums, Dictionopolis, Digitopolis, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. Together they must rescue the Princesses of Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason, who are being held captive in the Castle in the Air, and restore order to the Kingdom of Wisdom. Kakofonous A. Jones remarked, "It was a natural progression to another Juster work. On this one Les Goldman and Abe Levitow are my co-producers. Levitow and I are directing and Maurice Noble is production designer. In a departure from the novel, Ralph was added to the film to act as a friend to Milo. Jones explained, "It had to be a boy named Ralph. Anybody called Steve or Mike would have called with something to do. Ralph sounds like a wet tennis shoe. The release was accompanied with six other films that were released across key cities throughout the United States. Martin and Paul Vance two more songs unless otherwise noted. The film was not a box office hit. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is a lively and warming enchantment with real appeal for the 7-plus age group—and theplusses run up well into adulthood. More than 20 characters are thrown at the audience in 90 minutes; children will barely be able to recognize them before they disappear forever. Discovery and delight do not come at the end of the trail, but along the way. The going is the goal. Time Out Paris wrote that the story has "too many lessons" but "some very nice ideas". Milo learns a valuable lesson from Rhyme that he had never stopped to consider before: the real secret to defeating boredom is not finding something to do, but finding something to do from you can learn something new. Sad to leave, but armed with newfound power of knowledge, Milo says goodbye and heads off. When he passes through the tollbooth and arrives back home, he is shocked to learn that he was only gone for a few hours since weeks had passed during his adventures in Lands Beyond. Although he plans to go back to the magical land the next day when he gets out of school, he discovers the tollbooth is no longer there. The Whether Man likes to twist words around and giving them new meanings: "I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be". The Whether Man reflects Now, pay attention. The Phantom Tollbooth study guide contains a biography of Norton Juster, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Remember me. Forgot your password? Buy Study Guide. To ask other readers questions about The Phantom Tollbooth , please sign up. Is this a good read for a third grade who reads above grade level? She loves wordplay so this one was perfect for her. I loved that the content was appropriate and the languag …more My daughter who is a 3rd grader loved it. I loved that the content was appropriate and the language was challenging. How many pages is the book. Christen It depends on the edition, but Goodreads has that information in the book description. See all 19 questions about The Phantom Tollbooth…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Phantom Tollbooth. Oct 13, Patrick rated it liked it. I just finished this book with my oldest boy. I've been reading a chapter or two out loud to him every night when we can manage it. I never read The Phantom Tollbooth before, so it had no particular nostalgic appeal to me. But I'd heard about it, and it was in my house somehow so I decided to give it a try. Here's the short version: Meh. It's not awful. But it wasn't great, either. Overall, I found reading it to be a bit of a slog. When thinking ahead to reading time at night, I want to be exci I just finished this book with my oldest boy. When thinking ahead to reading time at night, I want to be excited. It's special time with my boy. But instead when I thought about this book, I mostly wanted to get through with it I could start reading a different, more engaging, book together with my boy. Here's the long version: Irritations: 1. No plot or tension. I'm fairly sure the formal term for a book like this is a picaresque. It's mostly just a series of adventures and visits to interesting places. There's not much of a plot. And before you get all impressed that I know that term, I'd like to mention that I only learned it in by listening to an interview with Neil Gaiman where he was discussing American Gods. I remember thinking, "Huh, apparently I've written a picaresque. I wish I'd known that about 10 years ago…. There's plenty of tension in American Gods. There's a mystery and action and questions that need answering. My point is, there's a lot of things going on in American Gods. Many things to make you curious. Many things to pull you into the story in addition to the interesting people and places that we meet through the course of the story. Phantom tollbooth doesn't have that. It's the story of a boy who goes places and stares around in amazement as things happen around him. He and his companions for the most part don't do anything. They're reactive, not active, and they're not particularly clever… Which leads to my next gripe… 2. The characters aren't that interesting. If your main character's motivation is that he's bored… well… that's not really edge-of-the- seat material is it? Don't get me wrong. I don't need an apocalypse. I don't need something to blow up. The Laura Ingalls Wilder books were fucking gripping. There were snowstorms and locusts and fucking bears. Just getting water or going to town was an adventure in those books. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a picaresque too, of a sort. Every different piece of the factory is like a separate land and adventure. The grampa and all the other kids might be fairly simple characters, but they all have personalities. I just wasn't feeling the same way about the people in this book.