Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #21: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-21-the-phantom-tollbooth-by-norton-juster/ A School Library Journal Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Eliana Savino http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-21-the-phantom-tollbooth-by-norton-juster/#comment-869722 Eliana Savino Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:21:15 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13550#comment-869722 Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your blog? My blog is in the very same area of interest as yours and my users would genuinely benefit from a lot of the information you present here. Please let me know if this ok with you. Thanks! Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your blog? My blog is in the very same area of interest as yours and my users would genuinely benefit from a lot of the information you present here. Please let me know if this ok with you. Thanks!

]]> By: Sondy http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-21-the-phantom-tollbooth-by-norton-juster/#comment-786774 Sondy Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:25:36 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13550#comment-786774 Ah! I purchased The Phantom Tollbooth with birthday money the year I must have been either 9 or 10. I got THIRTY DOLLARS from my parents. I bought ALL the Black Stallion books they had that I hadn't read -- at $2.95 each! (Hardcover, no less.) Also Man o' War, by Walter Farley, which was the exception and was $3.95. And I had enough money left to purchase The Phantom Tollbooth (in paperback)! I don't think I had read it yet, but purchased it on my friend Kathy's strong recommendation. She's still my good friend, and I still love this book. For someone who's always loved puns, this book was rich, even though I didn't get most of the puns when I first read it. I got enough of them to love the book and the adventure. Side note: It was a terrible thing when the price of books skyrocketed. Sigh. I actually kept a chart where I kept track of my money and how many Black Stallion books I could buy, back in the day. Nickel and diming my way to $2.95, it still wasn't out of reach. Ah! I purchased The Phantom Tollbooth with birthday money the year I must have been either 9 or 10. I got THIRTY DOLLARS from my parents. I bought ALL the Black Stallion books they had that I hadn’t read — at $2.95 each! (Hardcover, no less.) Also Man o’ War, by Walter Farley, which was the exception and was $3.95. And I had enough money left to purchase The Phantom Tollbooth (in paperback)! I don’t think I had read it yet, but purchased it on my friend Kathy’s strong recommendation. She’s still my good friend, and I still love this book. For someone who’s always loved puns, this book was rich, even though I didn’t get most of the puns when I first read it. I got enough of them to love the book and the adventure.

Side note: It was a terrible thing when the price of books skyrocketed. Sigh. I actually kept a chart where I kept track of my money and how many Black Stallion books I could buy, back in the day. Nickel and diming my way to $2.95, it still wasn’t out of reach.

]]> By: marjorie http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-21-the-phantom-tollbooth-by-norton-juster/#comment-782440 marjorie Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:17:49 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13550#comment-782440 "I love The Phantom Tollbooth!" "Of course you do; you're a HUMAN BEING." “I love The Phantom Tollbooth!”
“Of course you do; you’re a HUMAN BEING.”

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