I've always loved The Phantom Toll Booth and now my daughter does too. Does anyone remember the movie? I saw that before reading the book.
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I read it for the first time a couple of years ago. I had mixed feelings. I found it both clever and obnoxious. Also, it was required reading for a couple of students I knew, and while one really liked it, the others didn’t finish because they couldn’t get into it.
I didn’t know about the movie. I’ll look it up!
carlyhorton
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June 20, 2019
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Never heard of it. Horror/suspense I’m taking it as?
Kodiamus
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June 19, 2019
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Actually, it’s not. But the title sure suggests it. It’s a children’s chapter book (target audience upper elementary) that is based on wordplay. A boy who is always bored finds a strange toll booth and drives through it in his toy car. This takes him to a land where the “sea of knowledge” is a real sea, people can literally eat words, one can literally jump to a place called conclusions, etc.
I suppose if you hate puns, it’s a horror story 
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