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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.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster follows Milo and Tock the Watchdog as they trek through the kingdoms of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, meeting a wonderland of characters including a ...
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Justin Russo lives an ordinary life with his wife Giada and two sons, Milo and Roman; however, when his sister Alex arrives with a young wizard named Billie, she asks him to be her wizard teacher, but he declines due to giving up magic after being fired from WizTech. When his sons find out about wizards after Billie conjures up a "Floogie ...
On the October 15 episode of the That Was Us rewatch podcast, Milo sat down with former co-stars Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan to talk about his time on the show.