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Norton Juster, mischievous author of the children s classic The Phantom Tollbooth, dies at 91
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The 1970 film adaptation of Norton Juster s novel The Phantom Tollbooth
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How sad to learn that Norton Juster, one of those writers made world-famous by a single book, died on Tuesday. He was 91 and would soon have been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novel forever associated with his name, The Phantom Tollbooth, which was launched in 1961 and has remained in print ever since.
It tells the story of an amiable American boy named Milo, 10 years old and bored with everything. He is puzzled when a strange parcel arrives in his bedroom, containing a model tollbooth through which he can drive his toy car. So he does – onto roads that lead into the Lands Beyond, peopled with curious creatures, kindly or menacing. The book appeared 100 years after the pioneering work in its genre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was conceived by Charles Dodgson, an Oxford don with a passion for puzzles, conjuring tricks, verses and limericks. Alice launched a new
The Phantom Tollbooth : Crafting a literary classic
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Juster s classic book The Phantom Tollbooth tells the tale of a bored young boy, Milo, who is transported to a world of wonder when he drives through a magical tollbooth that has arrived without warning at his house. Photo: AP
Norton Juster, the celebrated children s author who fashioned a world of adventure and punning punditry in the million-selling classic
The Phantom Tollbooth and remained true to his wide-eyed self in such favourites as
The Dot And The Line and
Stark Naked, has died at 91.
Juster s death was confirmed on Tuesday by a spokesperson for Random House Children s Books, who did not immediately provide details. Juster s friend and fellow author Mo Willems tweeted on Tuesday that Juster ran out of stories” and died peacefully” the night before.
‘At birth they should give every child a PhD’: Norton Juster at home in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2011. Photograph: Getty Images
Norton Juster, who has died aged 91, wrote The Phantom Tollbooth, which became a classic for children of all ages. It tells the story of a boy named Milo, who is both bored and boring. One day he finds a package in his bedroom, from which he assembles the flat-packed eponymous tollbooth, and through which he proceeds in his toy electric car.
He finds himself enmeshed in an ongoing conflict between Azaz the king of Dictionopolis and his brother the Mathemagician, ruler of Digitopolis. Tasked with rescuing the princesses Rhyme and Reason, Milo – accompanied by Tock, a watchdog who sports an alarm clock on his torso – begins an epic journey through a world filled with wordplay. Juster recalled his own childhood, in which he experienced synaesthesia. “I couldn’t do numbers if I didn’t see co
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