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norton juster my bestie <333333
#the dot and the line is LICH RALLY everything to me#it makes me cry everytime i read it#and the phantom toolbooth is just iconic#his architecture is okay... not really my thing but go off i guess
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Readerly Ex. 6
2/26- Gill and Assigned instructional procedures
Big Idea: Reading comprehension is affected by three factors: the reader, the text and the situation.
Nugget: Schema theory is interesting. It makes it know that children who have less experiences with the world will have potentially more difficulty comprehending reading because they have less schema and background knowledge.
Assigned instructional procedures: Reading logs are a list basically of books read in a certain amount of time.
Engage in the reading process: View the text in a particular lens (socioeconomic) to consider the implications of the reading
When I was reading through this comprehension article, I could not help but think about the students in urban, low socioeconomic areas that I have taught. Just a few weeks ago, I was talking to a fifth grade teacher during dismissal who teaches ELA at Steelton-Highspire and she was explaining her struggles in reading The Phantom Toolbooth with her class. That particular day they were talking about the visualization comprehension strategy and they were trying to visualize “a country road”. The students, when asked what it would look like, responded with comments like “there would be a lot of buildings” or “there would be a lot of cars”. At this, the teacher was taken a back at how little background knowledge and experience the kids actually had. When faced with these challenges it is hard to comprehend a text when the background knowledge is so little they cannot visualize what is happening. This reminds me of the schema theory in this article, which stated how we understand a text by the schema we have regarding the context of the book. This exploration helped me deepen my understanding by connecting a current example to theories i am learning. It reminds me of the many challenges students have in becoming literate, especially when there are outside factors playing into it.
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7 & 17 📚
7- a series that got me into reading
I honestly don’t know, since I was always sort of a reader and we read a lot of stuff as a family in the car, like depleted our local library of audio books, but I’d have to say percy jackson was most likely what got be fanatically reading as a kid.
17- top 5 best kids books
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, one day I hope to read this in german! it was my favorite favorite book as a kid and the first book I ever bought with my own money
Carl Hiaasen books, Hoot was a favorite, and taught me how to write characters
The Wildwood series by Colin Meloy (and wonderfully illustrated by his wife) these books were so lovely but also sort of sweeping, and in my opinion the second one is the best
The Phantom Toolbooth by Norton Juster (I learned a lot of vocabulary from this book and I actually haven’t read it in a long time I just remember it breaking my brain at the time in the best of ways)
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is I think is really underrated as a children’s book, but it was read to me when I was pretty young and if someone loves you enough to do all the voices it’ll stick for your whole life
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the phantom tollbooth?
anon you asked about the RIGHT book because i loved this book so fking much like you do not believe. in fact, here’s a story about it:
i was in elementary school, and for our library (god i loved that library), if you did certain tasks, you could earn tickets and you could save them up for something. i always saved my tickets for getting an extra book at the book exchange, which was an event where you bring books you don’t want anymore and you get to take that many books + 1 from the exchange. however, the max for taking books was 10, I think.
anyways, me being the book loving kid i was, always worked to get that extra book. and i got to spend it early (i don’t really remember why. my memory is kind of shit) and i was looking through books and found the phantom tollbooth. now by then, i had already read the book and loved it and i was like YES MR. [LIBRARIAN’S LAST NAME] CAN I TAKE THIS (but not as loud because i was a quiet child) and he essentially said that if I wanted to, sure, because he was going to throw that out anyways.
little me TOOK THAT BOOK SO FAST and wondered if i could technically get another because like. this book was going away anyways. never asked though.
The book was not in the best shape but i ended up ‘repairing’ it by taking off the stickers really carefully and some of the torn lamination. i spent at least an hour on it, and then i proceeded to read it a lot.
so 5/5, 10/10 i really loved this book. i really loved the fact that milo went from someone who was really disinterested in everything to being able to get the urge to do things, and i loved all the witty comments (and commentary) and contradictions (like Tock) and the art style just feels really homey to me.
(send me a book and i’ll give my opinion on it)
#the phantom tollbooth#i also kept thinking it was the phantom toolbooth or tollboth#i was not great at spelling#answering:#anon
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-The Phantom Toolbooth (1961)
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2019 books
january
the last wish- Andrzej Sapkowski
artemis- andy weir
the abyss surrounds us- emily skrutskie
a dog’s journey- w. bruce cameron
feb
none :(
mar
dragon teeth- michael crichton
a tale for the time being- ruth ozeki
percy jackson and the lightning thief- rick riordan
april
the breadwinner
bud not buddy- christopher paul curtis
the phantom toolbooth- norton juster
the song of achilles- madeline miller
everlost- neal shusterman
artemis fowl- eoin colfer
may
of fire and stars- audrey coulthurst
a closed and common orbit- becky chambers
artemis fowl: the arctic incident- eoin colfer
good omens- neil gaiman and terry pratchett
june
the girl on the train- paula hawkins
a man named ove- frederick ..something
the thief- megan whalen turner
july
artemis fowl: the eternity code- eoin colfer
aru shah and the end of time- roshani chokshi
ash- malinda lo
we are okay- nina lacour
august
a gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue- mackenzi lee
artemis fowl: the opal deception- eoin colfer
six of crows- leigh bardugo
deception point- dan brown
september
furyborn- claire legrand
carry on- rainbow rowell
house of many ways- diana wynne jones
october
the graveyard book- neil gaiman
crooked kingdom- leigh bardugo
artemis fowl: the lost colony- eoin colfer
november
girls of paper and fire- natasha ngan
1q84 (part 1)- haruki murakami
they both die at the end- adam silvera
coraone- neil gaiman
december
percy jackson: sea of monsters- rick riordan
red white & royal blue- Casey McQuiston
charmed life- diana wynne jones
the last sun- K.D. edwards
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Tagged by @quite-actually-a-nacho and @emmadangerheart to list 10 favorite characters!
In no order:
1. Chandler Bing (Friends)
2. Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
3. Ron Swanson (Park’s And Rec)
4. Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters)
5. Luigi
6. Kirby
7. Dodecahedron (Phantom Toolbooth)
8. Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
9. Dimitri (Sly Cooper)
10. Sidon
Tagging @circular-pixels @lewanei @vickyhoots--thepiratesandwich @noenee @grizzchop @psi-groovin And anyone else who wants to!
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Things that make for peace
Luke 19:29-44
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Palm Sunday
Please pray with me:
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility. Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
When our children were little, Lynette and I read to them nearly ever day. We started out with age-appropriate books for babies and toddlers, before moving up into chapter books: The Chronicles of Narnia, Nancy Drew, The Phantom Toolbooth, and the entire Harry Potterseries. If you’ve ever read regularly to young children, you know that they don’t mind having the same story read to them over and over again. You also know that, as a parent, that gets kind of old. So I would try to do things to “liven it up” a bit. Sometimes I’d give the characters voices, other times I’d mis-read the story to see if they were paying attention.
I don’t know about your kids, but my kids hated that. When I’d add voices, they’d say, “Dad, read it right.” And one night, Rose took the story book to Lynette and asked her to read; I’d been mis-reading it too much for her liking and she told Lynette, “Daddy doesn’t know how to read it.”
This is not unrelated to how preachers feel at Christmas and Easter. We’ve preached these texts so many times that we look at these events that are crucial to our faith and kind of scratch our heads and say, “How do we tell the story this year.” I finally decided that I wasn’t going to worry about it; one lesson we can learn from our children is that there is value in telling the story over and over again. I didn’t just pull an old sermon out of the file, but I decided to be less concerned with possibly repeating myself.
Staying with this theme of things that are important to children, I’m curious to know how many of you have been to the Grandin Holiday Parade recently? If you’ve been to it, you know that parade is the coolest, quirkiest, family-focused parade ever. Right in the heart of Roanoke we have what is essentially a small-town parade, complete with Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, someone from 7-Eleven dressed up in a Slurpee costume, Brandon from Pops Ice Cream playing the bagpipes, preschool groups, greyhound rescue groups—it’s a fantastic event. The most fun I’ve ever had at a parade was the year Zach and I marched with the Cub Scouts, and Zach and I rode our unicycles.
If you’ve seen the parade, then you know that the Kazim clowns are always in it with their cars and their various hijinks and comedy acts. Get a picture of the Kazim clowns in your head for a moment. Now ask yourself, what would the Kazim clowns look like if they had airplanes instead of cars?
Hang on to that picture and follow me in your mind to the opening of Super Bowl 55. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan sang the National Anthem, and then there was a military fly-over. This year—because it was Super Bowl 55—the fly-over included a B-1, a B-2, and a B-52, because the numbers add up to 55. But imagine how the crowd would have reacted if, as the last notes of the National Anthem were being sung, the military fly-over would have been handled by the Kazim clowns.
If you can see that—and how people might react to it—then you have a better picture of what actually happened at Jesus’ “Triumphal entry” into Jerusalem. This is another of those cases where what we think is happening in the story is different from what is actually happening. Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem tells a story about what God is doing in the world, and it is a different story that the one the world tells. You see, Jesus wasn’t the only person of power showing up in Jerusalem that week. King Herod was coming to town, too, and Herod would have had his own parade. When earthly rulers enter a town, it is intended to show off their power. For Herod, this would have meant riding in on a powerful war horse, surrounded by elite troops. Their entry is designed to demonstrate who is in control, and it is designed to intimidate any troublemakers along the way with a not-so-subtle message of “if you want to take us on, go ahead and try.”
If you remember the victory parade at the end of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, celebrating the liberation of Naboo, you see what military parades are about. It’s the same with the military fly-overs at the Super Bowl—they are about establishing how evil will be conquered.
But Jesus doesn’t enter Jerusalem that way. Jesus is telling God’s story, and in God’s story the Savior comes in weakness, riding into town on a young donkey. It’s a story that was first told by the Old Testament prophet Zechariah; Jesus is just filling a role here, and it’s a role designed to be attention-getting; it’s the Kazim clowns showing up to declare the victory of God. And if you’re having trouble wrapping your minds around that—if you’re like Rose that one night at our house and want someone else to tell you the story because you don’t think I’m telling it right—think back to what Luke has been telling us since the Sunday before Christmas. It’s Mary’s song all over again:
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty (Luke 1:51-53).
Have we not heard Luke tell us this story over and over again?
It’s the Rich man and Lazarus—whose life is vindicated? Lazarus, the poor beggar at the gate who probably starved to death just a few yards away from a sumptuous feast.
It’s Zacchaeus, the despised local villain, who demonstrates his salvation by giving back what he’s stolen because he loves God more than his earthly position.
It’s the Prodigal Son dragging himself back home on the outside chance that he can be hired on a seasonal help only to find that his father has been waiting for him the entire time.
Jesus is proclaiming a kingdom where the last shall be first and the least shall be the greatest, where the worst of sinners are welcomed guests at the banquet of God. This is what Jesus will be about.
The people that go to the Grandin Holiday parade understand what is happening and they enjoy it; it’s fun to stand alongside Grandin Road on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and see all children and civic groups march by. And in one sense, the parade probably doesn’t accomplish all that much—except to help us celebrate things we find important. Just that! Amidst all the children’s groups and middle and high school marching bands and clowns and characters, the parade affirms what we love about the place we live.
The crowd that is on the side of the road at Jesus’ parade understands this, so they throw their cloaks down on the road in front of him. They lift Jesus up and declare him to be their Lord with the chorus of Psalm 118,
Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heaven!
Psalm 118 is a somewhat complicated Psalm that acknowledges a time when God’s people had been in trouble and God rescued them. So, of course, the people celebrate. The thing is, not everyone got it. Some people missed the meaning of what God was doing; as the Psalmist says,
The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. (Psalm 118:22)
Not everyone gets it in our day, either.
Palm Sunday is one of those tradition-rich holidays that brings back memories—possibly of robed children’s choir processing into the sanctuary, then taking their place at the front of the church to sing. But this isn’t where Jesus’ parade ends up. Jesus’ parade route brings him to an overlook where he can see all of the city of Jerusalem; seeing this, he begins to weep because the people’s inability to know the things that make for peace is killing them. This is where we begin to realize that the story Jesus is telling is different from the story we think we want to hear; the events of Holy Week are God retelling the foundational story of our existence as human beings.
To understand the story, we have to go all the way back to creation and see where things went wrong. We need to go back to the Cain and Abel story and see Cain take his anger and disappointment that God did not accept his offering and vent that frustration on his brother, Abel, killing him. We need to hear Cain say to God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Yes, Cain, you are. But Cain missed that because wired deep within us is this belief that violence is the only tried and true method to get what we want in life. It’s the basic story of humanity, and it’s a story that works its way into the stories we tell:
J.R.R. Tolkein told a story about two friends: Deagol and Smeagol. Deagol has a ring, and Smeagol covets it and asks Deagol if he can have it because it’s his birthday. Deagol refuses, and Smeagol kills him. That deed haunts Smeagol for the remainder of his life and transforms him into the pathetic creature known as Gollum.
Anakin Skywalker is consumed with the fear that he will lose his beloved Padme in the same way that he could not protect his mother Shmi. That fear twists him into giving into the dark side of the force, where he becomes the evil Darth Vader.
This story finds it’s way into our own believing the “good guy with a gun” mythology, where we believe that by carrying a gun with us we’ll be ready to overcome the despicable violence of our enemies with our own redemptive violence.
But Jesus knows this way of thinking is killing us. He sees what will happen if his people continue to believe that they can throw off the Roman government through force—an idea that will become incredibly important on Good Friday, when the people choose Barabbas over Jesus.
Jesus knows that the only way to peace is to eliminate our enemies. The issue becomes how. How do we eliminate our enemies?
Love them and pray for them: “But I say to you, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you’” (Matthew 5:44).
Bless them. “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’ No, ‘if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:19-21).
This is the story Jesus is retelling on Holy Week. And one of the reasons he can retell the story this way is because this is how God has responded to us:
For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10).
The story that Jesus is retelling is how God eliminated us as enemies through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. It can be a difficult story to hear because what we prefer is for God to come along and bless our thoughts, our dreams, our plans for how we will get along in the world. But do not be confused: just because Jesus is leading a parade does not mean that Jesus will be our mascot, something to prop up and celebrate our plans and schemes. The crowd gets it right when they sing “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.” Jesus will not be our mascot; he will be our Lord or nothing at all.
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Iced Coffee : Do you like reading? If so, what’s your favorite book?
I love reading! As a genre, I love Microhistories, but my favorite individual book is The Phantom Toolbooth.
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“Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory“ Review
I’m not known for reviewing movies (although after this I might do more), but you know what I am known for? Constantly ranting and raving.
This movie is an experience. There are some majors things I want to talk about, and when they’re good, they’re VERY good. But when they’re bad… they’re fucking bad.
1. The Story
This movie plays out just like the 1971 film except for the added Tom and Jerry parts. You know, normally I’m not a big fan of crossovers, and this is not an exception. In fact, this has some of the major flaws found in crossovers. I like crossovers when they crossover and have new adventures together, not where one side of the crossover is just reliving a story with the other side of the crossover. Needless to say, when it was just Wonka stuff, it was good (because the movie by itself was good to begin with). When it was just Tom and Jerry’s shenanigans, it was okay. I mean, it’s Tom and Jerry. I understand tons of people grew up with it (I did too), but I’m more a Scooby Doo defender. Sorry. But when the two forces of what was good by itself is combined… Lord almighty. I’ll be honest, when they’re combined, I absolutely cringed. Especially during the fizzy lifting drinks scene. It felt too chaotic, yet boring. It was petty. I mean, I always found that scene in the 1971 movie boring and petty, but the addition of more characters made it even worse. But is the story bad? No. I mean, I found Slugworth’s added evilness fun, and I was pleasantly surprised they kept in the “This isn’t Slugworth, but a man that works with me” twist, because I love that. Overall, this story is okay. Too fast for my tastes, but that’s okay, I suppose. I do wish it was a tiny bit slower in some places, and shorter in others. It has weird pacing. But really, all I can say is that it’s just alright.
2. The Animation
The animation is known for being terrible by now, so I won’t focus on that (I’ve already done that). But some things did look good. The backgrounds, the tunnel scene, and the scene before the ending (”YOU STOLE FIZY LIFTING DRINKS!!”/”GOOD DAY, SIR!!”) looked really good. This part gave me a mix of Don Bluth, Chuck Jones (not because of Tom and Jerry, gdi), and our dramatic modern animation. This was the most well-done part of the movie (for everything- animation, voice acting, characters story) and I can not decipher why.
This makes me so happy because I find the added crossover characters (you know, the ones that have their names in the title) so annoying, so I was really happy that Wonka did not want them there.
THIS. Is the BEST screenshot you’ll ever see from this movie. It’s amazingly expressive wihtout being overly so, has multiple forms of contrast, the lighting is on point, AND WONKA HAS SOME FORM OF SHADING???? I understand that these are supposed to just be cheap movies, but even some light shading is not that hard to do, and it’ll make things look nicer. I mean, I’m not trying to be like “Omg I’m a genius”, but you can use my art for example. I know that it’s obviously not animation, but it uses the same kind of line style and coloring, but with shading, and most of this movie just looks so flat.
Okay, who’s the wise guy who traced from The Phantom Toolbooth?
Seriously guys, it’s fine. You can tell me. Jokes aside though, I really wish Charlie looked more like this in the movie than how he looked most of the time. Wonka, Sam Beauregarde, Augustus Glopp, and Grandpa Joe are the next best things animated compared to Tom and Jerry (and Tuffy, the annoying little bastard mouse). I mean they have awkward moments, but they have less awkward bad looking moments than EVERY OTHER HUMAN CHARACTER IN THIS MOVIE. I wish the animation wasn’t overly expressive, because it just turns out terrible. But is this the worst animation ever? Absolutely not. Therefore, it’s just okay for me.
3. The Voice Acting
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I like the voice acting. I feel like some bland moments are the script’s fault along with the lack of direction, so I feel like talent was kind of wasted, but that’s alright. I mean not really, but otherwise, the voice acting was much better than the animation and story. I think that if the animation and story were better, than this could’ve been a pretty good film. Not a great one, but a good one. Because right now it’s feeling really mediocre, Good voice acting, pretty much.
4. The Characters and their Designs
Are these character designs good in hindsight, and are just executed somewhat badly? Absolutely!! Do I have something to complain and or talk about anyways?
YOU BET MY FUCKING ASS I DO!!
So I really really like how Sam Beauregarde and Wonka look in this, but I think that’s because I have shitty taste in men, but also because they kind of act, look, and sound like…
Does anyone recognize him? No?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the man, the myth, the legend: Dewey Ottoman. This
foppish motherfucker
is just incredibly well-acted, and props to Peter MacNicol for playing him, because he’s exactly what, in my opinion, a kids movie villain should be. He’s a bit darker compared to other recent kids movie villains, and he’s probably murdered someone, but I love this asshole.
But he and Wonka share germophobic habits, while he and Sam share assertiveness, yet also worrisome habits.
Also obviously the looks but… you get my point. Scooby Doo! Stage Fright is a much better movie than this, and is probably one of my favorites in general.
That’s it, I think. Overall, is this movie good? No. Is this movie okay?
Sure.
#/catcf/#animation#movie#movie review#willy wonka#willy wonka and the chocolate factory#tom and jerry: willy wonka and the chocolate factory#tom and jerry#bad movies#alright#okay#funny#humor#weird#fairness#fair#justice#just#story#voie acting#character#character designs#bad#not good
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Book 3 of 31: The Phantom Tollbooth
This children's book was a quick and fun read right after Canada. It was given to me as a 30th birthday present by my boyfriend's housemate, Craig, and his girlfriend, Florence. Flo had read the book as a kid and recommended it wholeheartedly, saying it could be read at any age. I couldn't agree with her more. What struck me most about The Phantom Tollbooth was its ability to capture the essence of childhood make-believe play: far off castles, demons and princesses that need rescuing. But on top of all that, Norton Juster layers this fantasy world with lots of word play- some which I imagine would amuse a child and some which I suspect would amuse only adults. The book is filled with images which accompany the narrative and they really complement the story very effectively. Though not precise and life like, these black and white and often scribbly looking drawings conjure up the absurd and nonsensical plot brilliantly. This is definitely a book I would recommend to children and will certainly be a book I'll read to my own children. On top of that, this book has inspired me to experiment with my own writing style and I'm now determined to write something absurdist in the style of Juster/Caroll/ Seuss so watch this space...! A 4* rating for The Phantom Toolbooth. Next up is We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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1, 8, and 15
1.if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?
Read the Phantom Tollbooth, watch My Neighbor Totoro, listen to the Rainbow album by Kesha
8.what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?
I keep coming back to Kesha, but i also really connected with Taylor Swifts 1924 album. And Lemonade by Beyonce, but I think most people did.
15. five most influential books over your lifetime
1. The Phantom Toolbooth by Norton Juster
2. Percy Jackson series as a whole
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
4. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
5. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
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73 - 78
MAKE ME ADMIT STUFF. ( @woojion )
73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy? “ You can turn on Produce 101 Season 2 and see that for yourself.” 74. What is your favorite book? “Phantom Toolbooth.”75. Do you study better with or without music? “ I don’t enjoy studying, so with music makes it easier.”
76. Regularly burn incense?
“ No, that’s a Minki thing...”77. Ever been in love?“Mmm.”78. Who would you like to see in concert?“ K. Will, T.I, Teyana Taylor, Kanye West, LOVELYZ, & Day6 , at the moment.”
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'Tollbooth' is a product of a time and place that fills me with fierce nostalgia. It was published in New York City in 1961, that golden moment in American children's books publishing when we lucky kids -- Norton, Jules, myself, and many more -- were all swept up in a publishing adventure full of risks and high jinks that has nearly faded from memory. There were no temptations except to astonish. There were no seductions because there was not much money, and "kiddie books" were firmly nailed to the bottom of the "literary-career totem pole." Simply, it was easy to stay clean and fresh, and wildly ourselves -- a pod of happy baby whales, flipping our lusty flukes and diving deep for gold. 'Tollbooth' is pure gold.
Maurice Sendak, 1996, in his "Appreciation" of Norton Jules' The Phantom Toolbooth, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
#The Phantom Toolbooth#no seductions#not much money#no temptations except to astonish#wildly ourselves#Feiffer#Jules#Sendak#children's books
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