《Norton Juster, 'The Phantom Tollbooth' author, dead at 91》 - 免费有声读物

The author of the celebrated children’s book ‘The Phantom Toolbooth’ and other favorites ‘The Dot and the Line,’ and ‘Stark Naked,’ Norton Juster has died. The author of the celebrated children’s book ‘The Phantom Toolbooth’ and other favorites ‘The Dot and the Line,’ and ‘Stark Naked,’ Norton Juster has died.As he wrote in the introduction to a reissue of ‘Phantom Tollbooth,’ he first thought of the book when he was in his late 20s and working at an architectural firm in New York City. He found himself wondering, the way a child might, about how people relate to the world around them, and eventually turned it into a story.Juster’s friend and fellow author Mo Willems tweeted that Juster ‘ran out of stories’ and died ‘peacefully.’ Norton Juster was 91.