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theshipthatflew: childrensbooks: “[T]he fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again.” - Adam Gopnik on The Phantom Tollbooth An Adam Gopnik article about the Phantom Tollbooth? Yes please! one of my favorite favorite favorite books ! 

theshipthatflew:

childrensbooks:

“[T]he fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again.” - Adam Gopnik on The Phantom Tollbooth

An Adam Gopnik article about the Phantom Tollbooth? Yes please!

one of my favorite favorite favorite books ! 

#Phantom Tollbooth  #Norton Juster  #Jules Feiffer  #i have probably read this book at least three dozen times  #at least  #THE DOG  #THE PUNISHMENTS  #THE CANNON OF SECRET WORDS  #so good  
∞  October 12, 2011
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  1. micheledominique reblogged this from catsmom
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  3. catsmom reblogged this from shephaestion and added:
    Just got the Annotated Phantom Tollbooth!!!
  4. gatsbylives reblogged this from childrensbooks and added:
    I just found out I’ve been invited to a dinner on Saturday night in honor of Jules Feiffer. I am, as they say, spazzing...
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  7. 0sf4 reblogged this from childrensbooks and added:
    this book is worth so many rereads and i wore out my copy pretty much :D. can’t wait for the new annotated one.
  8. shephaestion reblogged this from theshipthatflew and added:
    one of my favorite favorite favorite books !
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  10. isopod reblogged this from littlebeans and added:
    I loved this as a child, and read it just about every finals week in college. It made me laugh, calmed me down, and...
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  12. theredshoes reblogged this from theshipthatflew and added:
    Oh, what a great cartoon. And yeah, the article’s pretty good, even if he does go off into weird BS like “As with every...
  13. theshipthatflew reblogged this from childrensbooks and added:
    An Adam Gopnik article about the Phantom Tollbooth? Yes please!
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