His work includes The Dot and the Line, which was made into an animated film, and a musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth.
He began writing seriously while in the Navy. After spending three years in the US Navy, he practised architecture in New York and Massachusetts before teaching architecture and planning. He grew up (carefully) in Brooklyn, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing graduate work in urban planning and learning to ride a motorcycle. There are still a number of people who attribute that catastrophic event directly to his birth. Norton Juster was born in New York State in 1929, just prior to the Great Depression of 1929. 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 ‘An altogether remarkable book, one that should delight any bright child, and that will be no burden for a parent to read aloud. Words, numbers, clichés, proverbs are taken literally, imaginatively or punningly in an enthralling and very funny dazzle of mental fireworks.’ The Sunday Times ‘The most unpredictable, the most stimulating children’s book I have read for a very long time. ‘Think Alice in Wonderland for the modern age. This new edition of Norton Juster’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by award-winning author, Diana Wynne Jones. But will it be still there when he gets back from school? He meets the weirdest and most unexpected characters (such as Tock, the watchdog, the Gelatinous Giant, and the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing over and over again), and, once home, can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. Milo’s extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. And when he opens it to find – as the label states – One Genuine Turnpike Tollbooth, he gets right into his pedal car and sets off through the Tollbooth and away on a magical journey! When Milo finds an enormous package in his bedroom, he’s delighted to have something to relieve his boredom with school.
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