In the Author’s Note to The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster wrote, “The more I wrote the more I began to remember the things I felt and wondered about as a child.
Drawing inspiration from his love for comedy and his childhood favourites such as Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series (1930-1988) and Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows (1908), Juster peppered the book with clever word plays and a generous dose of adventure that have continued to enthrall his readers since. It would turn out to be his bestselling book, The Phantom Tollbooth, about a bored young boy Milo’s adventures in the Kingdom of Wisdom, that help nurture his curiosity and love of learning.
He began writing, not the tome on urban perception that he was supposed to, but what he thought would be a “little story about a child’s confrontations with numbers and words and meanings and other strange concepts that are imposed on children”.
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