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The author reading her daughters, "The Phantom Tollbooth," in March 2021. (Courtesy) When I was in fifth grade, and starting to experience real difficulties at home, I spent a lot of time in my public school’s library. I’m adopted, and it was around that age that I found myself more reflected in stories, than in the faces and personalities of my family. I sought refuge in books — the ones I read over and over, and the ones people thrust into my hands, saying, “I think you’d love this.” Our school librarian, an older woman named Mrs. Ross, had a reputation for being mean and scary....

The 1970 film adaptation of Norton Juster's novel The Phantom Tollbooth Credit: MGM How sad to learn that Norton Juster, one of those writers made world-famous by a single book, died on Tuesday. He was 91 and would soon have been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novel forever associated with his name, The Phantom Tollbooth, which was launched in 1961 and has remained in print ever since. It tells the story of an amiable American boy named Milo, 10 years old and bored with everything. He is puzzled when a strange parcel arrives in his bedroom, containing a model tollb...

The Northampton resident wrote a total of 12 children’s books in his lifetime, but was best-known for 1961′s “The Phantom Tollbooth,” a whimsical tale about a boy who finds a magical toy tollbooth in his room.