This is a book I wish I would have read as a child, not because it doesn't appeal to adults (I read it in one day after all), but because it does so many wonderful things with language and imagination that maybe kids aren't so exposed to these days.

That notwithstanding, I liked the adventure of Milo, Tock, and the Humbug quite a bit. Milo's foray into a world where things are both more literal and more figurative seemingly at the same time is an escape I think we'd all like to make some times. There, words and numbers feel magical, which they can certainly do here, but we often forget that (much as Milo did). There's not much to say about The Phantom Tollbooth that probably hasn't been said dozens of times in the half decade since its publication, so I'll leave it at that.