Norton Juster
American author
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contribution to children’s literature
- In children’s literature: Contemporary times
…The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster, a fantasy about a boy “who didn’t know what to do with himself.” Not entirely unjustly, it has been compared to Alice. The second received less attention but is more remarkable: The Mouse and His Child (1969), by Russell Hoban, who had been…
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