Famous children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth, about a listless young man named Milo who enters a bizarre world of word and number games, was the product of two neighbors — an architect named Norton ...

“The Phantom Tolllbooth” employed a gender-neutral casting process, so that talented performers would not be limited in landing certain roles. From Georgetown’s Theater and Performance Studies Program ...

"There is no such thing as a difficult word," said Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth. "There are only words you don't know yet — the kind of liberating words that Milo encounters on his ...

The dog Tock (Curtis Smith) relates the story of the King (Nicholas Devine) and Queen (Jasmine Osterhoudt) of the Kingdom of Wisdom to Milo (Taryn Palmatier) SHERMAN — The Phantom Tollbooth found its ...

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Here are Milo’s adventures in the Land of Wisdom, where he’s forced to think about many new things. Milo learns of the argument between King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician, whose disagreement ...

There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself — not just sometimes, but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way ...

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Beloved children's book author Norton Juster, who wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth," died Monday at his home in Massachusetts, his daughter said. He was 91. Norton's daughter, Emily Juster, said in a ...

After a perpetually bored young boy named Milo drives his toy car through the tollbooth that’s mysteriously appeared in his bedroom, he’s transported to the Kingdom of Wisdom, a magical land divided ...