This book is a favorite of many people's childhood and with good reason. Milo is a normal boy who one day discovers a box in his bedroom. The box contains a car and a tollbooth. The tollbooth takes him to mysterious lands where two feuding kings (brothers) have declared that either words or numbers is supreme and they have banished their sisters, Rhyme and Reason, from the land of Wisdom.
The word play in this book is fantastic and listening to Rainn Wilson tell the story was a cherry on top. Juster includes a foreward and is funny and self-deprecating, talking about how this book came about as a result of avoid other work.
Five stars
This book came out 1961
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby
Opinions are my own
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