SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – When I was in middle school my class read a book called The Phantom Tollbooth, and I liked it. It has a sort of an Alice in Wonderland-like whimsy. Instead of little Alice falling ...

COOS BAY — Milo and his dog, Tock, set off for adventure through the Land of Wisdom, encountering a Mathemagician, Princess Rhyme, Princess Reason and other strange but wonderful characters as the ...

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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 ...

A look back at the life of Norton Juster will rear plenty of stories—both the sort he wrote and the sort he lived. In his 91 years on Earth, Juster lived as an architect, a soldier, a professor, an ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Bruce Handy THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH By Norton Juster Like books of varying allegorical degree it is ...

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado ” Even surrounded by dozens of toys, Milo is bored. Nothing interests him at all. But there is hope for Milo when “The Phantom Tollbooth” comes to the rescue “-and comes to ...