Fiction
The Phantom TollboothPRC
Norton Juster
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Year 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
Themes
adventure · imagination · humor
Skills
vocabulary · wordplay · inference · abstract-thinking
Difficulty
Challenge
Pages
256 pages
Description
Bored Milo drives his toy car through a mysterious tollbooth into the Lands Beyond, where Dictionopolis and Digitopolis fight over which is more important — words or numbers. Wordplay-dense — half the jokes are puns.
中文版
无聊的 Milo 开着玩具车穿过一个神秘收费亭,进入了一个 Dictionopolis(词语城)和 Digitopolis(数字城)在争"谁更重要"的奇境。文字游戏密集 — 一半的笑料都是双关。
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Perfect for a verbally gifted OC-track kid. The puns require Year 4-5 English fluency — younger readers miss most of the jokes.
中文版
语言天赋强的 OC 路线孩子完美匹配。这些双关需要 Year 4-5 的英语水平 — 小一点的读者大半笑话听不出来。
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