"The Phantom Tollbooth" ist eine wirklich schöne Geschichte für Kinder und ganz anders als ich es erwartet hatte! Wunderbare amüsante Ideen und herrliche Wortspiele. Zwar hat es mich an manchen Stellen etwas gelangweilt (*hust* blöde Zahlen) und der Zeichenstil, der zwar sicherlich kindgerecht ist, ...
Milo is a dull boy. He's bored by everything, and the world is colorless and uninteresting. And then a tollbooth appears in his room, and since he has nothing else to do, he gets in his small electric car and drives past it. The world he finds is strange, full of mistakes to make and learn from, ...
Norton Juster lived around the block from me when I was a kid. We all steered clear of his house because our parents told us he was a miserable bastard. I don't know if that's true or not; we really took those warning seriously for some reason. Totally read this book like fifty times. But somehow ha...
I would have read this book in elementary school if my jerk third grade teacher had actually believed I was smart for my age like I was, but that's another story for another time. As for the book itself, which I just read for the first time today, this was a fun, though decidedly strange, fantasy a...
I love David Hyde Pierce and thought there were some witty plays on words in this classic, but the audio just didn't work for me. I think it's because I need more plot and action when I'm listening, so certain books, like this one, are better read. I do wonder how many kids understand the humor in h...
Juster's famous novel is described in the introduction as being about the value of education - I certainly agree with that but I think it is also something a little more specific and personal to Juster; how to view the world. For example the chapters on not looking at one's environment and noise pol...
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