This year I will be teaching The Phantom Tollbooth to my Pre-AP classes, and I could not be more excited! I didn't teach it last year becaus...
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FREE creative teaching ideas from LitWits! Fun but meaningful projects, hands-on activities, and many other resources for teaching The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Academic worksheets and activity printables for purchase.
"Like most good things that have happened in my life, The Phantom Tollbooth was written when I was trying to avoid doing something else — something I was supposed to do." So says American children's writer Norton Juster in the author's note of the…
Take a journey with Milo and learn valuable lessons as you work through the Phantom Tollbooth activities to create a lapbook.
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Even the most confident of writers can be excused for wondering if words, mere black-and-white glyphs, can compete in a world filled with ever more animated, flashing, full-color, special-effects-crammed and interactive visual media. At such times, it’s helpful to remember a passage from Norton Juster’s children’s novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, describing a visit by the …
Milo's exciting adventure in lands of edible words and mysterious creatures-Dictionopolis, the Mountains of Ignorance, the Kingdom of Wisdom, and more!
Photo Gallery: 'Phantom Tollbooth' Party - Decatur-Avondale Estates, GA - The Little Shop of Stories packs in the kids for a celebration of the book chosen for the citywide reading project.
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Go on The Phantom Tollbooth Journey Teacher Guide; Vocabulary, questions, writing prompts. An activity for the different lands and places that Milo visits.
For Ages 8 to – 12 With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
A certain kind of ex-child will be ecstatic to read that Norton Juster will come to Washington on July 12 for a screening of a new documentary on his famous children's book The Phantom Tollbooth. The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations...
The LitWits video workshop on THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster. Fun, hands-on ways for kids ages 7-12 to learn valuable academic and life lessons!
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Phantom Tollbooth Jr. Patron Lounge, October 5 and 6, 2013
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When I was a boy I read, in a biography of Daniel Boone, or of Daniel Beard, that young Dan (whichever of the two it may have been—or maybe it was young George Washington) had so loved some book, had felt his heart and mind inscribed so deeply in its every line, that he had pricked his fingertip with a knife and, using a pen nib and his blood for ink, penned his name on the flyleaf. At once, reading that, I knew two things: 1) I must at once undertake the same procedure and 2) only one, among all the books I adored and treasured, was worthy of such tribute: *The Phantom Tollbooth*. At that point I had read it at least five or six times.
In honor of our upcoming May 3rd show inspired by Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, here are ten of our favorite inspirational quotes from the book.
