Sam and I have just started to read
The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (with annotations by Leonard S. Marcus). Sam and I are reading
The Phantom Tollbooth section together, and then I'm going back through the chapters and reading the annotations on my own. It is so fun for me to pull out this book and read it with Sam. It was one of my favorite books as a child, and it's fun to re-experience and remember aspects of the plot (especially now with the perspective of an adult, while simultaneously getting to observe how Sam reacts to the story). In some ways, I feel like I'm reading this book for the first time all over again.
This is one particular quote that I enjoyed in one of the annotations tonight:
"As
Pilgrim's Progress is concerned with the awakening of the sluggardly spirit,
The Phantom Tollbooth is concerned with the awakening of the lazy mind" (Emily Maxwell, in her rave review of
The Phantom Tollbooth in
New Yorker, November 18, 1961).
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