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Juster loves words. He says that for kids, there are no difficult words -- just words they have never come across before.

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Norton Juster

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It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” Milo laments. “There’s nothing for me to do, nowhere I’d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing.” And so we are introduced to a young (and very bored) boy named Milo, a tollbooth, and an adventure in a strange place called Dictionopolis. The world knows and loves The Phantom Tollbooth and its creator, Norton Juster — a professional architect who also loved writing delightfully inventive books for children.

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