Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys - Softcover

Juster, Norton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007455682 ISBN 13: 9780007455683

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2012

Synopsis

Title: Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Norton Juster <>Publisher: COLLINS CHILDREN'S BOOKS

About this title

Review:

Praise for ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’:
“Think Alice in Wonderland for the modern age. Brilliant.” Guardian

“The most unpredictable, the most stimulating children’s book I have read for a very long time. Words, numbers, clichés, proverbs are taken literally, imaginatively or punningly in an enthralling and very funny dazzle of mental fireworks.” The Sunday Times

“An altogether remarkable book, one that should delight any bright child, and that will be no burden for a parent to read aloud. Related with unflagging wit and a marvellous sense of the fun to be had with words, this book will be enjoyed by children for years to come.” Spectator

About the Author:

Norton Juster was born in New York State in 1929. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool on a Fulbright Scholarship. After spending three years in the US Navy, he practised architecture in New York and Massachusetts. His work includes The Dot and the Line, which was made into an animated film, and a musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth. He is married and lives in Massachusetts. He has one daughter and one granddaughter.
The Phantom Tollbooth, his most famous book, won the George C. Stone Center for Children’s Books Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007455682
• ISBN 13: 9780007455683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160