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Norton Juster

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Norton Juster (1929–2021) was an American architect, city planner, professor of design, and author. His imaginative children's books are noted for wit, wordplay, mathematical and linguistic themes, and philosophical fables. His major works include The Phantom Tollbooth, The Dot and the Line, Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys, and several acclaimed picture books. He also wrote adult humor and edited nonfiction about rural American women.

children's literaturepicture booksfantasyhumorwordplaypoetrynonfictionwomen's history

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Cover of The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster's defining and most widely known novel, and the clearest introduction to his characteristic fantasy, humor, and wordplay.

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picture-book-series · complete

The Hello, Goodbye Window series

A completed picture-book sequence about a child and her grandparents, beginning with The Hello, Goodbye Window and continuing with Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie.

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  1. 1 Cover of The Hello, Goodbye Window
    The Hello, Goodbye Window

    Book 1 · picture_book · 2005

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  2. 2 Cover of Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie
    Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie

    Book 2 · picture_book · 2008

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Bibliography by category

Novels (2)
  1. Cover of The Phantom Tollbooth
    The Phantom Tollbooth

    novel · 1961

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  2. Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys

    novella · 1965

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Children's books (3)
  1. Cover of The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    picture_book · 1963

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  2. Cover of The Odious Ogre
    The Odious Ogre

    picture_book · 2010

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  3. Cover of Neville
    Neville

    picture_book · 2011

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Poetry (2)
  1. Cover of Otter Nonsense
    Otter Nonsense

    poetry_collection · 1982

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  2. As: A Surfeit of Similes

    poetry_collection · 1989

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Plays (1)
  1. The Phantom Tollbooth: A Children's Play in Two Acts

    play · 1977

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Edited works (1)
  1. So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865–1895

    edited_collection · 1979

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Other (1)
  1. Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey

    graphic_work · 1969

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