The year was 1939, the tail end of the Depression was in sight and the war years were yet to begin. Jules Feiffer, “The Phantom Tollbooth” illustrator who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize, was 10 years old and desperate for money. So he went to his corner store and asked if there was any job he could do. Turns out, they needed a delivery boy.
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San Francisco Book Review says:
"It’s been about time an Annotated Phantom Tollbooth was written, for for a long time, loyal fans have anticipated that coveted peek behind the brilliant curtain that put forth this confection of a book..." (more)
On the Same Page is a new, city-wide reading initiative in Decatur Georgia. Their goal is to foster a community of readers by bringing families together around the same book. They are thrilled to announce the inaugural OTSP book is the beloved classic The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, who is coming to Decatur on Friday, December 9th. Visit www.littleshopofstories.com for more information about ticket distribution.
Backstage pics from event at 92Y yesterday! [gallery]
Norton, Jules and Leonard at the 92nd Street Y - this Saturday, December 3rd. Unfortunately sold out! We might try to squeeze in though - will send pictures if we do!
Last Year Norton and Jules came together after 50 years to collaborate again on The Odious Ogre. Read about it in this NPR article...
My favorite character was the green-eyed, curly-haired, big-foot, broad-shouldered, round-bodied, extremely enormous monster ... Have you met anyone like this lately? — Phoebe Abbruzzese, 7, Longview, Wash."I meet people like that every day. They're the people who explain things in the way they want you to understand them ... That demon wants them to get very relaxed and easy so that the demons can come and destroy them ...
"All those demons that go through the book and appear finally at the end in their most frightening form were the demons that were my demons as a child and are still around. I still know all of those people very well, and I'm just a little bit better at avoiding them or sidestepping them."
