The Phantom Tollbooth - how did I miss this?

Children's books
Hey Boom,

Interesting idea. I'm going to stick around and read what pops up!

Wow..... Mapleleaf.... dang.

Sincerely good to see you again. How are you?

Huh.....





Maybe I deserve a short sentence and a six million year prison term for starting this thread for thinking I was a well read child.....

bookmark......

Does Rex STout count? One of my kid buddies was hooked on these and I didnt read them till I was in my thirties. I loved em and then I went on to Sherlock

the Moominland tales are pretty cool

can't go wrong with Matthew Looney either

reading up on the phantom tollbooth, now i want to read it

one more strange on, cs forester, author of the horatio hornblower series and the african queen, wrote a children's book called poo poo and the dragons, it's a petty good read

Land of Green Ginger is cute.


I agree re Phantom Tollbooth, and the lovely Moomintroll books...especially Moominland Midwinter.

Oh...and The Mouse and His Child. (Russell Hoban)

Oh man I loved The Phantom Tollbooth. I wonder if my folks still have my old copy.

Just checked -- my copy is missing! (or I'd have lent it to you, dj) Bought it as an adult after I had kids and read it first -- it's great.

Discovered Winnie the Pooh in university and still add to my collection of related books.

Really like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. If you like your animals stereotyped (weasels bad -- bunnies good) and anthropomorphized, they're great adventure stories. (And the descriptions of food and drink are mouth-watering.)

Oh yeah! I missed a lot!

Those Looney books look great. I really wonder how I missed those. Like The Phantom Tollbooth, they came out when I was a kid so it seems I would have found them.

Rex Stout books look great too. Who doesn't love a mystery?

The Mouse and His Child looks exceptional. My "I want to be a garbage man when I grow up" kid will love any story that involves a dump. (See The Brave Little Toaster.)

And The Land of Green Ginger....

I'm putting together a nice little reading list for both Mo and myself!

It's interesting that so many of these recommendations are older books. A lot of the comtemporary books for young children are so sanitized that it seems all the humor has been distilled from them. It seems that if you aren't learning something, you're just wasting your time.

Mo had been rejecting everything I'd been reading him as "BORing!" which is why I jumped in the way-back machine looking for things to read.

The Phantom Tollbooth is the first thing I've hit on that leaves him asking for more (Is Milo really going to spend six million years in prison? How is he going to get out? (Tune in tomorrow.....)).

And I'm having a hard time not sneaking ahead!

Tai Chi wrote:

'If you like your animals stereotyped (weasels bad -- bunnies good)"





You have a PROBLEM with this?




I adored the Jungle Books as a weelowan.....

Ah but dlowan, CATS are also considered BAD in Redwall!

Aaaah...it's a Vegetarian Thing.





I adored the Jungle Books as a weelowan.....

And Five Children and It, the Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet.