Words for Sale! Delicious Parts of Speech Fresh from the Oven!

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	• The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Bullseye Books, 1988 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 552 reviews view larger image
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Alice in Wonderland for boys

After nasty families and school bullies, boredom is probably the predominant plague of children in Western society. The remedy for boredom: a voyage to a far-off world where things happen that don't usually happen. Begun by Alice in Wonderland, this theme of children's fantasies is continued here in The Phantom Tollbooth. Readable by both children and young teenagers, this adventure - comedy is about Milo, a young boy who discovers a tollbooth in his room one day. Traveling thru it, he enters a world that seems to have been concocted out of his classroom lessons. Milo encounters the warring cities of Digitopolis and Dictionopolis, the Doldrums which one never wants to get stuck in, and makes an accidental jump to the Island of Conclusions. Along the way he meets a wide variety of characters, such as Tock the dog, the Whetherman, and Rhyme and Reason.

I read this book when I was 12, and it has remained one of my favorite books since then. I highly recommend it for all readers, young and old, who have time to spare or time to kill.

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Words for Sale! Delicious Parts of Speech Fresh from the Oven!

Norton Juster's ten-year-old Milo is bored with life and everything, so he does not see the porpose for learning in The Pahantom Tollbooth. One day, he glumly returns home and finds abox in his room labeled, "ONE GENUINE TURPIKE TOLLBOOOTH." He decides to try it out in his red toy car, ans as he drives through the the booth he finds himself in a very interesting parrallel universe, with dolldrums, subtraction soup, edible words for sale, watchdogs, humbugs and countless onders. "Dictionopolis, a happy kingdom, advantageously located in the foothills of confusion and caresseed by gentlie breezes from the Sea of Knowledge. Today, by royal proclamation, is market day. Have you come to buy or sell?" says the guard at the gates. As Milo travels through Dictionopolis, the Valley of Sound, Expectations, and various lands, he meets interesting characters such as the Whether Man and the Dodecahedron. this book is a favorite of mine because of the clever puns and play on words that make you laugh. Also, it has exciting adventures and interesting ideas sure to satisfy the picky reader. In The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton plays on puns in his plot, and can make any unenthusiastic reader, like Milo, eat their words.

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It Was Fun to Read

Candy Lane Craze is a really funny story. It was written by a funny author named David E. Spencer. He is one of the funniest authors I ever read. I first read this book online and then I told my mom to buy some books for my family. And then she said I could write some book reviews for other children and kids. I recommend this book to boys and girls that like reading funny stories. It's about Johnny, Sara, and Sabrina and they receive some magical candy from their grandmother, and then they magically disappear from her house when they eat dinner there. They disappear to a strange planet and they find a city called Sweet Little. It's a city where the people love candy and they like to build there houses with cookies and sweet stuff and they like to grow trees that grow candy. The kids meet Gloria and Gloria takes the kids to all the interesting sites around the city and there's candy and sweets everywhere they go. The city has a giant bug problem and the people have to fight the bugs when they search around the city for the candy. That is where the funny stuff happens in the book. This book will make great gifts for kids like me that read silly stories and fantasy stories.

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My favorite book ever-- by FAR!!! by Sammy K.

Milo is a sad, strange boy. Whenever he is one place, he wants to be in another place. He never finds anything to do; he's always bored. Well, that changes when he receives a strange package. He opens it up, and inside is a miniature tollbooth. He goes through, and he experiences many adventures. From jumping to the Island of Conclusions to saving Rhyme and Reason, to meeting a watchdog named Tock, to even meeting a dodecahedron and trying to find the highest number ever, Milo comes back a changed boy.
This book that has many plays on words is by far my most favorite book. I think Norton Juster, the author, is just the best!

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Timeless

One of only two books I've ever read more than once. Though it may seem childish to an adult, the message is touching at any age. The power of hope, possibility and friendship is sure to brighten anyone's day.

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