The Phantom Tollbooth (英语) 平装

内容简介

Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room.

Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey.

He meets such characters as the foolish, yet lovable Humbug, the Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked andquot; Which, andquot; Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the andquot; impossibleandquot; mission of returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.

作者简介

Norton Juster is an architect and the author of other highly acclaimed children’s books, including The Dot and the Line, The Hello, Goodbye Window, illustrated by Chris Raschka, which received the Caldecott Medal, and The Odious Ogre, also illustrated by Jules Feiffer.

Jules Feiffer is the author and illustrator of two novels for young readers, as well as several acclaimed picture books, including Bark, George and Meanwhile . . . He has won numerous prizes for his cartoons, plays, and screenplays.

媒体推荐

" I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'"

--Anna Quindlen, The New York Times

"A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."

--The New Yorker

From the Back Cover

" I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'"

--Anna Quindlen, The New York Times

"A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."

--The New Yorker

作者：Norton Juster、Jules Feiffer

出版社: RANDOM HOUSE INC; Anniversary (1988年10月12日)

平装: 272页

读者对象: 8 - 12 岁

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0394820371

条形码: 9780394820378

商品尺寸: 13.3 x 1.5 x 19.4 cm

商品重量: 558 g

品牌: RANDOM HOUSE INC

ASIN: 0394820371