Phantom Tollbooth

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Summary: This is the best book i have ever read!!!!!!
Review: This is a great imagintive book, about a boy named Milo who encounters a toll booth in his bedroom. He travels to this imaginary place where he meets different people and different funny things. It is the best book ever written.

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Summary: very interesting
Review: This is a very interesting book. It's about a boy named Milo who first thought everything is pointless. Then, one day he got back home from school, and saw a strange machine. He got into it, and just played the game. Which was a very weird place to be. First he went to dictionopolis, where people used to buy words. I know this sentence sounds weird. But that's just the way it is. He met there such friends as Tock, who is a watchdog, The spelling bee, and Humbug, a bear, and many more. And the 3 were searching for rhyme and reason. Then they went to digitopolis, where people think numbers are the most important things in the world. They buy them. And do lots of such things. And in Digitopolis they finally found rhyme and reason. They are two princesses. After that, everyone respected Milo, the watchdog named Tock, and the bear Humbug. Then Milo just went back home. And another day he didn't find that machine. But found a letter. It said that the machine is travelling around the world, and lots of other kids have to try that. He was sad. But he realized, that nothing is pointless, and started doing lots of things.

This is a fairy tail. And it has a lot of interesting adventures. But you have to be smart to understand it. And don't read, when you're half asleep. 'Cause you might miss a lot of interesting things. It's definetly one of my favorite books. And I recommend it.

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Summary: WORST BOOK EVER
Review: This is absolutely the most horrendous book I have ever read. I would never recommend this book to anyone, EVER! Reading about a kid who thinks every one is abore is boring its self. Who would be dumb enough to go through a tollbooth that appears in your room after school? So, whoever reads this should never read "The Phantom Tollbooth."

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Summary: Essential reading
Review: This is an all-time classic children's book. It follows the story of a young boy named Milo as he meets strange characters in his mission to bring Rhyme and Reason back to the Kingdom of Wisdom. Milo is continually confronted with logical conundrums and challenges to his assumptions and attitudes. He is transformed from a boy who felt he had nothing to do to someone who considers his actions (or inactions) consciously.

This was the first "chapter book" that I ever read, at the age of 7. Its influence on me has been immeasurable, from knowing that the only escape from the Doldrums is to think one's way out, to an unshakeable conviction that there is an inherent unity between words and numbers, and isolating the study of one from the other will limit achievements in both. This book is a delight to read, whether you are pointing to the words with your finger and sounding them out as you go, or reading the book aloud to your grandchildren.

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Summary: Great creativity!
Review: This is one of my favorite books - very creative - I have enjoyed reading it for the past 20 years & I plan on reading it to my daughter. From the moment Milo drives through the tollbooth, you are on a wonderful adventure - eating "Substraction Stew" makes you hungrier and jumping to conclusions puts you on an isolated island called "Conclusions".

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Summary: One of my all-time favorites...
Review: This is one of those books (a novelette, really--it's only a little over 100 pages) that has become a classic, and rightfully so. It's about a somewhat shy man, Mr. Chipping, who comes to teach at Brookfield School in 1870. He begins to warm up to his students, after falling in love and marrying Katherine, who brings him out of his shell. He becomes a beloved institution at the school, and is there until the end of his life. It's a wonderful story, told by one of the best of the modern story-tellers, James Hilton.

Hilton is a wonderful author, and I never tire of reading his books. He's very good at characterization, and that talent really shines in "Chips." "Chips," "Lost Horison," and "Random Harvest" are among his best, but I've never read a bad book by Hilton. By all means, check out his books--you'll be glad you did!

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Summary: Valuable lessons. But just not for adults.
Review: This small book was written in 1961 and has become a classic. I had never heard of it however. Maybe that's because it was written for children. The lessons though, can be applied to adults, and, through the years, the book has received accolades from a large variety of people, both young and old.

The story centers around a young boy named Milo who is bored with his life. One day, a phantom tollbooth appears in his room. When he goes through the turnstile, he enters another reality. He's suddenly thrust into an "Alice In Wonderland" existence as he travels through a new and foreign land. There's the world of words in "Dictionopolis" and the world of numbers in "Digitopolis" There's the "Valley of Sound" and the "Forest of Sight" and the "Foothills of Confusion". Along the way he meets some strange characters as he bravely rises to the task of rescuing "Rhyme and Reason."

By the end of the book, the boy comes home older and wiser. And the reader has had the fun experience of smiling at the writer's cleverness as well as being reminded to appreciate things we take for granted such as our senses of sound and sight. After the first quarter of the book I was bored. However, I am sure I missed a lot of the subtleties, which would become clear if I wanted to read the book again.

There are many valuable lessons to learn from this book. And I'm glad I read it. It's probably a great book for a 10-year old. But I just can't recommend it to adults.

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Summary: Funny and Educational
Review: This story is kind of like Wizard of Oz, but better, in my opinion. We are taken to a magical and very literal world full of great characters like the Watch Dog, the Spelling Bee and the Humbug. It is funny, with a log of play-on-words jokes. With all the so-called "classic" literature that they make kids read in school (most of which is just boring) - this book should be something that every kid reads. Very entertaining.

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Summary: THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
Review: Usually most books start out really boring, but when I first read The Phantom Tollbooth, it wasn't boring at all! I loved it! I recommend that anyone on earth would enjoy it, young and old. The book started out exciting and ended out with more excitement.
The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy who doesn't think anything has a reason. He thinks his life is a big bore. Milo takes an enchanted adventure through a tollbooth that he found in his room. On the way, he meets all sorts of strange creatures. Eventually, Tock the watchdog in the Doldrums, Humbug in the Word Mart, and the two kings. Suddenly, Milo, Tock and Humbug get granted the mission to rescue the two princesses Rhyme and Reason. The ending is the best part, you see what happens!!

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Summary: Wonderful book!!
Review: Very imaginative and fabulous book! The main character goes on an adventure in a fantasy land, where he learns the importance of learning vocabulary and math in school. Plus he learns the pitfalls of such bad behaviors as lethargy and insincerity. As the character Princess Rhyme says at the end of the book, "It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters." Even though this book was intended for children, I think many adults would enjoy it too.