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WILLIAMSBURG The students participating in the upcoming musical at the Anne T. Dunphy School might just be able to relate to the main character in “The Phantom Tollbooth Jr.,” a boy who in a fit of boredom visits the Kingdom of Wisdom.In real life,.
, the story of a love triangle involving a line, a dot, and a squiggle, made into an Oscar-winning animated short by Chuck Jones he was an architect by trade. This makes the literary accomplishment of
The Phantom Tollbooth even more impressive. Every time I return to the book, I marvel at how beautifully crafted is, and not just for a kids’ book. There’s plenty that all kinds of writers can learn from Juster’s masterpiece, such as:
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