![]() ![]() JUSTER: (Reading) We offer you the hospitality of our country, nation, state, commonwealth, realm, empire, palatinate, principality. In it, Milo meets five representatives of King Azaz the Unabridged, king of Dictionopolis, monarch of letters, emperor of phrases, sentences and miscellaneous figures of speech. ![]() Here's Juster reading a section for NPR in 2010. ![]() LIMBONG: And so when a mysterious tollbooth shows up in Milo's room, he gets in because there's nothing better to do and gets transported to this world filled with wonder and wordplay. There was no rhyme or reason in that kid's life. ![]() When I grew up, I still felt like that puzzled kid - disconnected, disinterested and confused. NORTON JUSTER: I had been an odd child, quiet, introverted and moody. In a 2011 essay for NPR marking the book's 50th anniversary, Juster reflected on his own childhood. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this appreciation.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: That opening line about Milo might as well have been about Norton Juster. Juster died yesterday at his home in Northampton, Mass. That's the opening to "The Phantom Tollbooth," the classic 1961 children's book written by Norton Juster that became a staple in children's literature. (Reading) There once was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself not just sometimes but always. ![]()
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