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Norton Juster
Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on... show more

Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera based on The Phantom Tollbooth. The musical adaptation, with a score by Arnold Black, premiered in 1995 and will soon be performed in schools and theaters nationwide. An amateur cook and professional eater, Mr. Juster lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Birth date: June 02, 1929
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Children's Books
Norton Juster's Books
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics - Norton Juster The Hello, Goodbye Window - Norton Juster, Chris Raschka Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien, Norton Juster, Ovid, Italo Calvino, H.G. Wells, William Morris, Julio Cortázar, George MacDonald, Chinua Achebe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, M.R. James, Bruno Schulz, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jack Finney, Joel Chandler Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Brautigan, L Neville - Norton Juster, G. Brian Karas Alberic the Wise - Norton Juster, Leonard Baskin The Odious Ogre - Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer Otter Nonsense - Norton Juster, Eric Carle Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie - Norton Juster, Chris Raschka The Phantom Tollbooth: A Children's Play in Two Acts - Norton Juster, Susan Nanus So Sweet to Labor - Norton Juster So Sweet to Labor - Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America - Norton Juster Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster, David Hyde Pierce As: A Surfeit of Similes - Norton Juster, David Small
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FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it 6 years ago
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For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis is one of those books that I had been meaning to get around to reading. Multiple people had told me I would like it, but I always got distracted by other books. When I finally started it, I did not want to put it down. I absolutely loved this book...
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Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it 8 years ago
text Long overdue + Anniversary
"...the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between..." There were several lines from The Phantom Tollbooth that I could have chosen to start this blog post but this one really stuck with me. It might come as a surprise for you to learn that this was the f...
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The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 8 years ago
text About lesson books
I ended up liking it. It took two tries, but I did. I actually enjoyed the cleverness of it the first time around too. I just got bored. I think It was because it is didactic. As a child, I used to despise books that used stories only to carry a message or lesson (I hated morality fables with a pass...
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Books for my Classroom
Books for my Classroom rated it 8 years ago
text The Phantom Tollbooth
I have chosen The Phantom Tollbooth having never read the book. However, my mom has used the book in her classroom for many years and she always coming home to tell me new ideas she has for the book. The book is about a boy that travels to a fictional land to help release a princess. My mom has ment...
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Irresponsible Reader
Irresponsible Reader rated it 9 years ago
text One of the cases where the audiobook can't deliver what the text can.
I needed something to listen to at work a couple of weeks back, and the only thing I could find from the library's collection was the audio version of the children's classic, The Phantom Tollbooth. It's been a few years since I read this with my kids, so I figured it was worth a shot. The story of b...
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