The book tells of Milo’s travels through a magical tollbooth and begins a journey to the Kingdom of Wisdom, where he and a “watch” dog named Tock try to end the feud between numbers and words.
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The Lexile is 1000
This book is 50 years old this year! If you don’t want to do the math, it was published in 1961. Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer talk about how they wrote this book.
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