The Phantom Tollbooth (Large Print)

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Summary: It was an exciting and educational book!!! 5 STARS!!
Review: It was a very magnificent book that I have read 3 times! It was so very exciting that it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. It was a very creative book with a great storyline and it is so wonderful that it will cheer you up and draw you in to reading it again and again.

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Summary: FOR THOSE WHO SEEK, EXPERIENCE, AND FIND THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Review: This book is especially meaningful to those who find life a waste of time. Mr. Norton Juster deserves an applause straight from my heart. I read this book halfway in fifth grade, and it is the first book to entice me to walk into a library, and begin other journeys in the talented hands of hundreds of authors. This little boy is very similar to me, as well as many people, young and old, who find themselves bored with the world. A little boy who mysteriously finds a tollbooth in his room is swept into a journey full of fun and odd surprises: two conflicting royal brothers who fight about words and numbers, The Silent Valley where people protest their rights for the return of sound, a place where people grown down rather than up, and places understandably known as Illusions and Reality. In conclusion Milo finds understanding in King Azaz's words,"...So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." This book will take you right on along with Milo, Tock, and the Humbug and show you what makes this book, and life altogether adventurous and beautiful. Although many stories such as Alice in Wonderland are very similar to The Phantom Tollbooth, nothing else has quenched my thirst. For that reason at 20 years old until I die it is and will be my favorite book...Thank you Mr. Norton Juster.

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Summary: This is a wonderful story!
Review: This is a great book ! I love all the little twists of words and the interesting names for people and places. I think that the characters are fun and likeable and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. One of my favorite parts was when Milo, Tock, and the Humbug attended the feast in Dictionopolis. I also enjoyed the part when they rescue Rhyme and Reason from the Castle in the Air. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story and a super plot!!

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Summary: My Favorite Book!
Review: This wonderful tale of a boy who didn't know what to do with himself will always stay with me. I was just nine when I read it the first time, but I will never grow out of the wonderful life lessons that the story teaches. It's beautifully written, and a fun book for anyone to read. This is my FAVORTIE book, and one of the few which made me cry because I didn't want it to end.

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Summary: No matter where you go, there are lessons to be learned.
Review: I love this book. Not only is it entertaining, with it's strange personalities and extraordinary lands, but everything in it teaches a lesson. A lesson that's usually hidden, but not to hard to uncover. Read it.

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Summary: Confusion Galore
Review: I really didn't like this book, I mean why would a package containing a TOLLBOOTH, be delivered into your room? What's up with that? Besides, nobody would go through it with a little car that just happened to be right next to it, they'd tell someone! DUH!!!!!!

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Summary: Thank you, Norton Juster!
Review: This is without a doubt the best children's book I've ever read! I'm 38 years old, and I still go back and reread it at least once a year! To all those "reviewers" who gave it less than 4 or 5 stars: perhaps you might want to take a look at the book again. It's an amazing story, the imagination of the author and the wonderful characters - it's great! I don't know how else to say it! I recommend it to everyone - not only kids!

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Summary: Genius, it was genius!
Review: I think that it is difficult to write a story, much less, an interesting story, about numbers and words. Juster went further than interesting; he went to intriguing, exciting, and extraordinary. I would say that he has reached infinity and has done the impossible. I am not saying that he is better than the classic writers: Hugo, Cervantes, etc., but he has produced a work that really stands out. The Phantom Toolbooth really was a book impossible to put down, even with its math problems and word games.

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Summary: This book defined my childhood
Review: A wonderfully charming and entertaining book, which I credit with instilling me with a lifelong love for reading. From a child's point of view, it's a whimsical fairy-tale about a young boy's adventures in a magical land; from an adult's point of view, it is a well-crafted allegorical Bildungsroman about the journey from Ignorance to Knowledge. Highly recommended for anyone aged ten to ten thousand.

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Summary: Good, but...
Review: This book was on my summer reading list, and I expected to like it very much cause I remember reading it years ago and loved it. I read it in 3rd grade, so, 6 years later I didn't remember much. After I finish it, I have one question. Why was this on a 9th grade reading list when it was obviously directed towards 3-5th graders. The age group is about 8-11. Not 13-15. Sure it was good, a nice break from the challenging books on our list. But it was simply childish and boring from the standpoint of a teen. So, if I was in 4th grade, I'd give it a five. In 9th I give it a one. So, I'll meet it down the middle. 3 stars.