Tag Archives: The Phantom Tollbooth

Shopping O-Z

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Nathan

I wrote about traveling salesmen in Oz last week, but I forgot about one. That was none other than Ruggedo, the former Nome King, who was a peddler of sunglasses at the beginning of Pirates in Oz. Now, I might … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged choose day, cut and assemble the emerald city of oz, dictionopolis, down town, dragons, emerald city, evangeline, fashion plate mesa, fix city, handy mandy in oz, humpy, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, madam chic chic, margaret berg, nome king, norton juster, number nine, oz cream, pajuka, pastoria, peter brown, pirates in oz, road shop, shops, snip, style shop, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, turn town, turn-style | Leave a comment

Nonsense That Makes Sense

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Nathan

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth | 5 Comments

Oz Under Attack

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Nathan

Fwiirp in Oz, by Nate Barlow, Jeff Barstock, Ryan Gannaway, Greg Hunter, Phyllis Ann Karr, R.K. Lionel, Marcus Mebes, Hugh Pendexter III, and Chris Dulabone – Wow, that’s a lot of authors for such a short book! No, seriously, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Book Reviews, Chris Dulabone, Hugh Pendexter, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr | Tagged andrew heller, blinkie, button-bright, chinchillas, cowardly lion, donald abbott, emerald city, father goose in oz, fwiirp in oz, glinda, greg hunter, harvey the squid, jason brant, jeff barstock, king anko, nate barlow, professor wogglebug, r.k. lionel, scarecrow, skeeziques, the amber flute of oz, the giant chinchilla of oz, the magic chest of oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the sea fairies, the speckled rose of oz, tin woodman, witches | 7 Comments

And Juster for All

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Nathan

Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth was a favorite in my childhood, and I’m pleased to say it still holds up. I recently checked out The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, with annotations by Leonard S. Marcus, which was published in 2011. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice in wonderland, butch patrick, chuck jones, dictionopolis, flatland, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jules feiffer, kabumpo in oz, leonard marcus, mathematics, norton juster, rith metic, synesthesia, the annotated alice, the annotated phantom tollbooth, the dot and the line, The Phantom Tollbooth | 4 Comments

Unheard History of Oz

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Nathan

Two more Oz book reviews for you lucky readers today. Yes, I’m kind of surprised that there are still some I hadn’t yet read, too. The Tales of Yot, by Adam Nicolai – A collection of three short stories that … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, bungle of oz, carrie bailey, fairy beavers, glinda, gludwig and the red hair, gludwig the glubrious, international wizard of oz club, john dough and the cherub, julia inglis, princess ozana, ragbad, red jinn, ruprecht the castaway king, the magic ruby of oz, the magical mimics in oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the shaggy man of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tales of yot, tote's blemished blossom, wam, wizard of wutz, yottabecquerel | 5 Comments

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