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Norton Juster

Published 60 years ago, in 1961, The Phantom Tollbooth was a favourite book for many children of my generation. It follows the adventures of a boy named Milo. Permanently bored, he ignores the world around him. One day, out of nowhere, a mysterious package arrives. In it is a toy car and the tollbooth of the title. As he drives through it, the car magically transports Milo to a fantasy land full of numbers, words, puns, characters and other lessons.

What I didn’t know then was that the book has an underlying Jewish history. This is because its author, who has died aged 91, was Jewish and the book drew upon his heritage and upbringing.

Juster was born and grew up in the Jewish milieu of Brooklyn during the Great Depression, the son of Samuel, an architect, and Minnie (née Silberman), immigrants from Romania and Poland. I probably did not think Juster was Jewish because his name is the Old English term for ‘north settlement’.

Such a name was typically given by immigrant Jews to their sons to reinforce the sense they were all-American and that it would give them

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Obituary: Norton Juster

Children’s author Norton Juster, widely praised for the wordplay in his clever and whimsical books for young readers, including the much-loved The Phantom Tollbooth, died on March 8 at his home in Northampton, Mass., following complications from a recent stroke. He was 91.

Juster was born June 2, 1929 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and grew up there, graduating from James Madison High School. He earned his B.A. in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, the same year he won a Fulbright fellowship to pursue graduate study in city planning at the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture in England. Juster served in the U.S. Navy from 1954–1957, where his assignments in the Civil Engineering Corps included building airfields in Morocco and Newfoundland. Following his military service, Juster returned to New York and received a grant from the Ford Foundation to write a book about urban perceptions.

But instead of completing that project, he began writing a story inspired by his own childhood a

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Norton Juster is best known for his beloved children’s novel The Phantom Tollbooth, a mainstay of bestseller, must-read, and critically acclaimed lists of books for young people. Juster was born in Brooklyn on June 2, 1929 to Samuel Juster, a Romanian-born Jew who assiduously worked his way founding his own architectural firm, and Minnie Silberman, a Polish-Jewish woman who managed the firm and ultimately raised four children. The family lived in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, and although they were not wealthy, they were modestly well-off.

As a child, Juster devoured books and radio programs. He attended James Madison High School and matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania’s fine arts program in 1952 with a plan to study architecture like his father. There Juster, who hoped to go beyond his father’s humble architectural projects, studied under Lewis Mumford and attended lectures by Lewis Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright.

After graduating with accolades and academic prizes, he went to England to s