Norton Juster

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Norton Juster (born June 2, 1929) is an American architect and author. He is famous primarily for having written two children's books: The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.

Biography

Juster wanted to be an architect from childhood on. His father was an architect, and Juster's brother became an architect as well. He served in the United States Navy before settling into his architectural career.

Juster wrote The Phantom Tollbooth in the early 1960s while living in Brooklyn, New York. Jules Feiffer, a neighbor of Juster's, did the illustrations.

Although Juster enjoyed writing, his architectural career remained his primary focus. He was also a teacher.

Juster served as a professor of architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from its first semester in 1970 until his retirement in 1992.

Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.

Juster currently lives in Amherst, MA with his wife, Jeanne. Although he has retired from architecture, he still writes. His most recent book, The Hello, Goodbye Window, was published May 15, 2005 and won the Caldecott Medal for Chris Raschka's illustration in 2006.

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Both The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line were adapted into films by animator Chuck Jones.

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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (ISBN 1-58717-066-3) is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. The title is an obvious reference to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
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The Hello, Goodbye Window

Author Norton Juster
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Chris Raschka (born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1959) is an American author, illustrator, and violist. His Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1993 but he is probably most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal.
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The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) is a children's novel and a modern fairy tale full of wordplay and adventure. Written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, it tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who drives through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of
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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (ISBN 1-58717-066-3) is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. The title is an obvious reference to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
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