The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster Reviews

I read this book during my primary school years and as I remembered findly of it I decided to purhcase it into my teenage years and memories came flooding back, this is the first book I can really remember getting into properly and reading again at a much later date. Never read or heard of Norton Juster before this book and haven't ...  Read the complete review

Milo is never happy where he is and is bored by just about everything! Nothing seems worth the effort to him, until one day a mysterious package arrives containing the Phantom Tollbooth (and accessories!). He enters the Kingdom of Wisdom and begins a grand adventure of self-discovery. He escapes from the Doldrums (a most Dangerous ...  Read the complete review

I have to say from the outset that this is one of my favourite all time reads. I first picked up this gem when I was 10 and we were at a favourite used book store. At 10, I picked it because the cover looked interesting (different cover altogether from the current one) and the title seemed odd. My parents allowed it into the to buy pile because of ...  Read the complete review

On the back of my copy of this book, under the blurb, is the customary quote. This time it comes from Amanda Foreman, writing in the Sunday Times. "I want to shout about The Phantom Tollbooth from the rooftops. I want to stand in Waterloo and press copies into people's hands. This is a book that should be in every ...  Read the complete review

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is one of my favourite books from my childhood. It tells the story of a boy called Milo who is bored- until one day a package arrives. He opens it to find that it contains a tollbooth to strange places... He sets off in his little car to a world populated by characters who seem to ...  Read the complete review

Milo is always bored but can't be bothered to do anything. One day he gets home from school to find a mysterious parcel which proves to be a DIY Tollbooth, the sort where you pay to travel on bridges or foreign motorways. Milo pays his money, drives his toy car through, and enters an incredible world of weird characters obsessed by words ...  Read the complete review