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The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961.The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom.
Officer Short Shrift is a very short man who works as a police officer of Dictionopolis. [1]: 58–59 He unfairly arrests Milo and Tock where he blames them for wrecking the Dictionopolis Word Fair which Humbug and Spelling Bee did. Officer Short Shrift has a tendency to sentence the characters he arrests for long periods and tends to forget ...
Accompanied by Tock, a "watchdog" who actually has a large pocket watch in his body, Milo has a series of adventures in places like the Doldrums, Dictionopolis (Kingdom of Words), Digitopolis (Kingdom of Mathematics), the Mountains of Ignorance, and the Castle in the Air.
Coffee beans are hitting record high prices not seen in nearly 50 years after difficult growing seasons among some of the world's top producing regions. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ...
The Adventures of Milo and Otis; The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin; An American Tail; Babes in Toyland; Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation; Castle in the Sky; Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops; Flight of the Navigator; GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords; The Great Mouse Detective; Heathcliff: The Movie; Lightning, the White Stallion ...
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency - whose mission is to help people before, during and after disasters - fired an employee who advised her survivor assistance team in Florida to not go ...
This is us, right now: Profusely sweating because Milo Ventimiglia is talking about his sex life. The "This Is Us" star didn't get too graphic, but in a new SiriusXM interview, host Bevy Smith ...
He worked on the CBeebies pre-school children's television series the Tweenies as the voices of Milo and Max. The popular show won a BAFTA [ 1 ] in 2000 for best pre-school live action. He worked on The Beeps which aired on Channel 5 in 2007 and 2008.