The Phantom Tollbooth

Title: The Phantom Tollbooth
Author: Norton Juster
Genre: Fiction
Reviewer: Patrick

Meet Milo, he is a bored little boy. Not just sometimes but ALL the time! He is not interested in anything. One day Milo found a bulky package in his room. It contained a genuine turnpike tollbooth just waiting to be built. When he drives his electrical car through the tollbooth gate his magical journey begins. He first congregates a watchdog named Tock and travels to the city of words called Dictionopolis. It is positioned in the foothills of Confusion near the Sea of Knowledge. He meets a Which named Faintly Macabre who told the story of Princess Rhyme and Princess Reason. Dr. Dischord specializes in noises and becomes a part of his trek. Then he travels to the city of numbers, Digitopolis and meets a Mathemagician. The escapade continues as the dynamic trio; Milo, Tock, and a friend named Humbug voyage to the Mountains of Ignorance on a quest to reinstate peace connecting all those he has met. What Milo discovers in the end is a superior lesson for us all.

Over all, I loved this book and I could not stop reading! This book had stunning words bursting with color. Besides the fact of the dazzling vocabulary, the book is so good it could essentially write itself! There are implausible twists and turns like a rollercoaster which just adds to the interest of the characters in the book. In conclusion, this piece of magic is just extraordinary, and in my opinion I give it a prevailing A, and I think you should really check it out.