The New Yorker ’s Adam Gopnik has writtenan excellent retrospectiveon Norton Juster ’s The Phantom Tollbooth , in acknowledgment of the iconic book ’s fiftieth day of remembrance .
The article is a must - read for anyone , young or old , who look back lovingly on their travels with Milo to the punny world of the Lands Beyond .
Gopnik writes :
Our religious cult of decade anniversary - the tenth of 9/11 , the twentieth of “ Nevermind”-are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers : because we ’ve got five on each hired hand , we count things out in tens and one C . And yet the fifty - class birthday of a good youngster ’s leger marks a material enactment , since it mean that the book has n’t been go past just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to nestling again . A Holy Scripture that has crossed that three - coevals barrier has a practiced opportunity at permanence . So to mention the fiftieth natal day of the close matter that American lit has to an “ Alice in Wonderland ” of its own , Norton Juster ’s “ The Phantom Tollbooth”-with illustration , by Jules Feiffer , that are as perfectly matched to Juster ’s text as Tenniel ’s were to Carroll’s - is to mark an anniversary that matter .
Read more atThe New Yorker .
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