Puns, Games, and Mathemagics - Los Angeles Review of Books
In her August 2004 article for the New York Times, “Why Teachers Love Depressing Books,” writer and critic Laura Miller wrote, “I decided that there were two types of children’s books: call it Little Women versus Phantom Tollbooth. The first type was usually foisted on you by nostalgic grown-ups. These were books populated by snivelers and goody-two-shoes … The people in the other kind of book, however, were entirely different. They had adventures.”
Go to the full article by CHELSEY PHILPOT, on the enduring magic of The Phantom Tollbooth.