About the book
Bored by everything, Milo comes home one afternoon to a mysterious package holding a miniature tollbooth along with a map of the Lands Beyond. With nothing better to do, he drives through in his toy car and lands in the Kingdom of Wisdom, once prosperous and now troubled. Joined by Tock, a talking watchdog with an alarm clock on each side, and the Humbug, he sets out for the Castle in the Air to find the kingdom's exiled princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Norton Juster's first book, with drawings by Jules Feiffer, is full of puns and literal readings of idioms, as when Milo jumps to the island of Conclusions. Film, opera and stage versions followed.
Facebook product design vice president Julie Zhuo said no book better captures the imagination, wonder and sense of adventure that children grasp so naturally.
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Julie Zhuo (VP Product Design/Facebook)
To this day, I can think of no better book that captures the imagination, wonder and adventure of life that children so intuitively grasp.
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