This is the worst book ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was the worst book I have ever read. I read it last year in fifth grade and I am 11 now. DO NOT THINK OF ME AS A SMALL CHILD!!!!!!!!!I am extremely mature (I am not bragging)and usually enjoy childish books with more to them than meets the eye, but this book was just plain stupid. It was full of mathematical errors and it seemed like the author wrote some of the events just to fill up space. Those events had absolutely nothing to do with the plot and had practically no effect on the ending. I should have read this when I was 4 or 5 and actually liked this type of literature. Yes there was interesting word play, but it was not enough to make up for the total idiocy of the storyline. I simply CANNOT understand the people who like this book as it is boring and immature. I liked Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line(which is a PICTURE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!), but was sorely disappointed with the results of this waste of paper, money, ink, and time.
A Magical Adventure The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who comes home one day to find a present with his name on it. He opens it to find a tollbooth. Milo puts in a coin (included with present) and decides where he wants to go. He ends up in a world that is filled with consonants and vowels, and is rivaled by a world full of numbers. Milo can't imagine the endless possibilities that could happen in this magical world. I highly recommend this book to any reader with a creative mind. I also recommend this to someone that dislikes reading, only because this book is a great inspiration. Read this book and many others by Norton Juster.
Joseph, 11 years of age, from R.I. .......mmmmmmmmm!!! I just loved this book: it is definitely one of the best I've ever read. It's about a boy who discovers a strange tollbooth in his mail wich leads to an outrageously strange world. I just love this book, and you will too if you'll just read it.
