What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
The Phantom Tollbooth Tock, based on sidekick Jim Fairfield from "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy". Jim gave Tock his wisdom, courage, and adventurous spirit. As a child, Juster had synesthesia, and could only do arithmetic by making associations between numbers and colors. He remembered that the condition affected word associations. "One of the things I always did was think literally when I heard words. On the "Lone Ranger" [radio serial] they would say, 'Here come the Injuns!' and I always had an image of engines, of train engines." Some of the incidents in the book stem from Juster's own past. In Digitopolis, the
The Phantom Tollbooth its upcoming "live-action/hybrid" film adaptation of "The Phantom Tollbooth". In 2018, Carlos Saldanha replaced Shankman due to scheduling conflicts. Theodore Melfi is drafting the screenplay after Michael Vukadinovich and Phil Johnston. Juster feels that his book still has relevance today, although children's lives have changed since 1961: The Phantom Tollbooth The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do,