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THE ANNOTATED PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Norton Juster,Jules Feiffer | 284 pages | 25 Oct 2011 | Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers | 9780375857157 | English | New York, NY, United States The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth | Reading Rockets But we solved it: "I'm possible", we wrote underneath. It is one of my favourite memories of reading with students, and I highly recommend the book to grown-ups and children alike: if you are not satisfied, after all, wasted time will be refunded! Nov 17, Calista rated it really liked it Shelves: classic , own , x-surreal , groundbreaking , genre-fantasy , genre-comedy , wordsmith , s , bage-middle-grade , z-norton-juster. This was a joy to read again. It's amazing how much of this had faded from my memory since childhood. Norton takes all these common phrases and ideas and puts them together in a way that makes them feel absurd. He remakes them. This is a great book for kids starting out their reading journey. It sparks the imagination about words. I loved the dictionopolis. That was amazing. Words are important and this book encourages a curiosity about language and words and how things can be used. It is a fun l This was a joy to read again. It is a fun little middle grade read that I'm so glad is still around. I did listen to this in the car on my way to school and I can't remember many of the wonderful quotes from characters I would love to put down here and comment on. Rhyme and Reason are important in this book and without them we do see what a mess the world can be. I also enjoy how the Phantom Tollbooth just appears and disappears without ever explaining who are what sent it. It just is. I found that refreshing. This should be school reading or on a reading list at school. This also reminds me so much of Alice and Wonderland and the absurdity of the characters we meet in this strange land. Milo is simply trying to figure things out. It's the closest thing to it that I know of. It is a sharp witted little story and it's easy to see how it came out of the 60s era. I had fun reading it. Aug 05, Brian Yahn rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. The Phantom Tollbooth is-- without doubt--the funnest book I've ever read. Not only did I love this book as a kid, but I love it even more the older I get. It has enough of a save-the-princess plot to hold your attention, a cast of Pixar-like zany characters, and it's set in a world so riddled with puns it's unbelievably fun. From the way the tollbooth mysteriously arrives, to the way it takes Milo to a strange new world, to the quest he ends up on to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason, to how he The Phantom Tollbooth is--without doubt--the funnest book I've ever read. From the way the tollbooth mysteriously arrives, to the way it takes Milo to a strange new world, to the quest he ends up on to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason, to how he ultimately returns home--this story never stops surprising, never stops intriguing, and definitely--not for a word-- does it stop being fun. View all 4 comments. Nov 25, emma rated it it was amazing Shelves: funny , that-setting-tho , owned , recommend , classics , children-s , beautifully-written , 5-stars , reviewed , reread. Is this the cleverest book of all time? I think this is the cleverest book of all time. I so deeply enjoyed rereading this. When I was younger, I would only keep books that I would reread over and over - and I would pick up each one, seriously, an average of 4 to 6 times. I believe this absolute insanity is why I was unable to reread for the subsequent, like, 6 years. But now we're BACK. And it's been a mixed bag, but rereading this was just the greatest. There were so many puns and allusions and Is this the cleverest book of all time? There were so many puns and allusions and metaphors I didn't understand the first eleven times I read it, so they made rereading this like a whole new experience. I read it in a sitting! It was such a blast. God, I want to drop a visit to the Lands Beyond so badly. Don't you guys wish you could jump into books, just for a hot second? Or, at the very least, a mysterious tollbooth would be given to you to grant you passage into a mysterious kingdom filled with puns. I mean, come on. This is only going to be a mini review because I don't even know how much I can joke about this book. I have a major soft spot for it, okay?! We all have our things. Bottom line: Totally give this book a try. It's compelling, and clever, and short, and the characters are so cute, and the setting is so fascinating and creative and fun and amazing, and the whole thing will stick to ya like glue. I'll never be able to escape this book, and I'm not mad about it. View 2 comments. Sep 20, Katie rated it it was ok Recommends it for: children who like wordplay. I wasn't as impressed with this book as many of my friends. Perhaps that is because of my high expectations for the book or perhaps because of my preferences in writing style. So those who love this book can use one of those two reasons to blow off my review. However, the fact remains that I was not very interested from page to page, and if not for a commitment to a book group, I am afraid I would not have had any desire to finish it. In style the book seems to be written for a particular age gro I wasn't as impressed with this book as many of my friends. In style the book seems to be written for a particular age group ranging from , depending on the vocabulary and maturity of the reader. And, for the preteen sense of humor, the wordplay was appropriate and would be quite funny to the intended audience. However, the wordplay was really the only interesting aspect to the book, and I'm tempted to say as much for the joke books my niece reads to me. The plot was simple and was secondary to both the wordplay and the multiple morals of the story. In fact, a new moral was introduced with every chapter some chapters containing more than one moral , and each chapter was only a few short pages long. This was the main drawback to the book. Not to say that morals aren't important in a work, but too many morals are detracting. Introducing, then immediately leaving a moral behind decreases the likeliness that it will be remembered once the book is finished. My other main problem with the book was the lack of description to help the reader enjoy the fantastical and quite creative world Juster introduces. Here one moment, and there the next, the reader is left wondering How did Milo find his car again he was lost only a moment ago? Where are they? What do they see? This book, whose main moral is to teach a child to notice the world around them, simply forgot to take a look around. The spectacular scene with Chroma and his orchestra being the exception. Overall, an interesting book, leaps and bounds above the other children's literature of Juster's contemporaries, but not my favorite. View all 8 comments. May 08, David rated it really liked it Shelves: young- adult-childrens. Reading "grown-up" literature is excavating the human soul, the adult soul: a mangled mess of contradictions and self-deceptions, screwy motives and the odd self-adherent logic of artistic creation. But Literature capital ell is a pyrrhic battle between message and evasion: one must avoid moralizing outright, must avoid overt allegory, but must never be too subtle, too veiled, lest you be resigned to snobby undergrabs and many rubbish bins. The Phantom Tollbooth is a strange beast: decidedly a Reading "grown-up" literature is excavating the human soul, the adult soul: a mangled mess of contradictions and self-deceptions, screwy motives and the odd self-adherent logic of artistic creation. The Phantom Tollbooth is a strange beast: decidedly accessible to children, but remains lovable to adults. It's championing of the struggle against moral short-cuts, boredom, and mental waste is timeless, ageless, and remains prescient, even to me: a grown person 52 years after it's publication! My grandmother has always said: "only boring people get bored" - I am guilty of sometimes serving this packaged wit cold when a friend laments "I'm bored! What is signifed in my grandmother's aphorism is that interested people are interesting , and more importantly are never idle. My family paternal side is a hard-working, conservative, New Englander family: we don't watch much television, we read lots of books, we listen to NPR and read the Wall Street Journal, we somewhat self-indulgently talk about the cultural decline in literacy and how we are not a part of it. But the story of Milo is one which is both entertaining, lovable, but also cautionary. By no means is Milo a bad child, a dull idler, but rather he has not found passion yet.

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