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Summary: Toll Boothtastic
Review: I read this book when I was in third grade and immediately loved it. Since then I have read it numerous times and continue to enjoy it. Every time I read it I'm taken to the Lands Beyond and am taught new things. The only thing I could possibly compare the book to would be a Disney movie which has hidden jokes for adults. Both Disney movies and the Phantom Tollbooth entertain young children as well as adults. When asked by a college advisor what my favorite book was I did not hesitate before saying the Phantom Tollbooth. This is truly an amazing and wonderfully creative book. I would strongly recommend reading it to anyone of any age.
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Summary: The Phantom Tollbooth
Review: I read this book when I was nine. Now I am eleven, and it is still a great book to read. I am actually doing a book report on it for school right now! The characters, ecspecially Tock, are great and the book is sarcastically funny. This book is about a forlorn boy who needs some fun and exciting adventures. He drives through the phantom tollbooth and through the lands beyond. But then he gets stuck on a dangerous mission, rescuing Rhyme and Reason. You'll have to read it to find out the rest! I'd recommend this book to anyone with imagination!
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Summary: The Phantom Tollbooth
Review: I really like the book. Like at the beginning when he first saw the Tollbooth in his room. But the end I didn't like when he got home from school and the Tollbooth was gone and a letter was in its place. I think there should be lots of Tollbooth's for every child who needs one. So that way they will have the Tollbooth when they get older and they turn into adults.I think that it would be funny if when Milo got older and the Tollbooth would still be with him that he would go and visit all of he friends that helped him. And see if they would recognize him as an audlt.
I learned that you should not always listen to what you hear. I also learned that you should not jumb to conclusions before you know they are true.
The main charters are one a little boy who is used to think that life was boring. Two Ryme and reason who Milo is going to save. The third is tock who always does not like to waste time and he is is helping Milo to get the two girls.Fourth the Humbug who is also helpng Milo get the two girls.
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Summary: This book saved me
Review: I remember when I first read this book about two years ago. After finishing the 4 Harry Potter books, I impatiently waited for the 5th. While waiting, I looked for a different book to read, but none of them could give me the satisfaction the HP books did. I read A Wrinkle in Time--to many weak characters and mushy ending. Then I read the Golden Compass--practically a highschool-level book; I couldn't understand many of the descriptions and vocabulary. I was just about to give up my interest in reading. Then I finally decieded to read the highly acclaimed Phantom Tollbooth. I was a bit reluctant to read it at first, it sounded so absurd and the title didn't get me too excited.Well, I was wrong. I was amazed at how well-written and creative the book was! It was a world of language and math--two things I show a lack of interest in, yet the book showed the world of those two in such interesting, philosophical, and funny ways. I cracked up at so many parts. Not to mention the characters were so incredibly well-developed, and the hero was so likable. I was sad when I came to the ending of the book, but it really made me think and look at the world differently when I finished reading it. This book is a true classic and is now one of my all-time favorite books. It'll have a special place in my heart.
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Summary: This is a GREAT book!
Review: I think that "The Phantom Tollbooth" is a very good piece of literature! I reccomend this book to 2nd graders and up, because there are quite a few hard words. It is a funny, clever and wonderful book, and I think YOU should read it very soon!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I think the The Phantom Tollbooth is great book because in a way it is informational.It is somthing you can read in your spear time
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Summary: A lovely book
Review: I was read the Phantom Tollbooth while in Grade School and I simply loved it. So when I saw it again, I had to get it. The whole story line is amazing. The people Sam encounters have a deeper meaning than face value. I highly recommend this book, even though it is directed towards the young, or young at heart!!
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Summary: ABC, 123, do-ray-me....
Review: Let me begin by saying how pleased I am to see so many reviews for this book. I had been under the impression (an impression I now see was thankfully false) that "The Phantom Tollbooth" had fallen into relative obscurity in the last 20 years or so. I'm basing this impression on the fact that you just don't hear anybody mention it anymore. Not librarians or booksellers or teachers or anybody. You don't read current criticism of the book. There aren't huge theses based on its plot or reasonings. And yet... It is a great story with great writing, a lovely (if sometimes overdone) plot, and a merry cast of characters. Accompanied by the delicate illustrations of one Jules Feiffer, the book deserves to be remembered for all time. Hopefully, it will be. We follow the adventures of Milo in this story. Milo is ennui incarnate. Nothing interests the boy and he has a very difficult time seeing the point in anything at all. One day Milo walks into his room with the plan of finding disinterest there and finds instead that he has been given a large present. It is, according to an accompanying note, one genuine turnpike toolbooth. After assembling the creation, Milo decides to play with it for a little while. He hops into his electric car (possibly the number one toy most desired by children reading this tale), plops some money into the toolbooth, and finds himself in a completely different, and oddly unnamed, new land. It is there that Milo meets and befriends a variety of different creatures and beings. Ultimately, the boy is sent on a journey to locate the princesses Rhyme and Reason from their imprisonment in the sky. But the brunt of the book, and the parts that most people remember, are the warlike words between the king of Dictionopolis and the Wizard of Digitopolis. In fact, all that I could remember about this book (years after reading it and moments before rereading it) was that the debate was the question of which was more important; words or numbers? Being an English major I'd probably throw my cap in with the former, but, as the princesses Rhyme and Reason make clear, the two are of equal value. The book's plot is not a particularly new one. Anybody familiar with any basic quest story, be it "Alice In Wonderland" (to which this has many similarities), "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" or even "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" will recognize this book's form. What sets it apart from the rest is not only the world in which Milo finds himself abroad, but the character of Milo himself. Here is a boy with a serious deficiency. He is Maurice Sendak's "Pierre" and he simply does not care. By meeting the residents of a world of everything from words and numbers to colors and sounds, Milo comes to understand that the more one learns, the farther one can travel. Filled with sly puns and clever ideas the book is a real delight. The king of Dictionopolis is named Azaz. There is a boy who is only .58 of a person and who patiently explains that in his land every family has 2.58 children. He is simply that .58. Things like that. A lot of this books sails swimmingly over the heads of children, while a couple other moments sail swimmingly over the heads of most adults. It's worth it to pay attention to Juster's writing too. Though prone to silliness, the author is equally comfortable spouting text like, "Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?...Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house?" I love passages like this. Juster is the rare author that can make you laugh and then pause for thought within a scant two or three sentences. As I said at the beginning, in spite of all the good reviews this book has received, I still feel that, "The Phantom Toolbooth" is unappreciated in this day and age. Where's its movie? Its official fan club? Its annotated editions? Alas, I feel we'll have to wait until the novel receives the acclaim of which it is utterly and entirely deserving. Until it does, let's just sit back in a comfy chair and glow in the inviting warmth of a book that finally gives full attention to the inner lives of sounds, vowels, and computations.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: My 8-yr old son and I happened upon this book and could not stop laughing. The humor is simple enough even for a second-grader. The "whether man" was by far our pick of the characters. I am sure that ten to twelve year old readers would understand more of this fun, but we enjoyed it now and we will definitely read it again!
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Summary: It doesn't get better than this
Review: My father read this book to me the first year it was published. I was nine and it has been on my bookshelf since. I can't tell you how many copies of this I have purchased for people. This is a great book to encourage thinking, not simply memorizing. Each page contains new language, new ideas, new ways to play with learning. It also happens to be a wonderful story. I may have been too young at nine to read it on my own, but certainly it is a great read-aloud for children nine or a bit younger. At nine, I didn't understand all the fancies, but like the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, this book succeeds on many levels. The Phantom Tollbooth encourages a child's love for language. It paints wonderful pictures (with the help of Feiffer's charming line drawings). It is as perfect a thing as can be written. Oh, and if you're an adult without any children at home - buy the book for yourself. It will take you away from the Doldrums and into the Kingdom of Wisdom where your spirit can be renewed.
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