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Norton Juster Dies: Acclaimed Children’s Author Of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ And ‘The Dot And The Line’ Was 91
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deadline.comNorton Juster, author of the acclaimed modern classic children’s books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line, died last night.
He was 91.His death was confirmed by Penguin Random House. Additional details were not immediately available.Both of Juster’s most well-known works of the early 1960s were adapted for film, in collaboration with animator Chuck Jones: The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, first published by Random House in 1963, was adapted by Jones and MGM Animation into an Oscar-winning 1965 10-minute short film.
The Phantom Tollbooth, published by Random House in 1961 with illustrations by Juster’s friend Jules Feiffer, was adapted in 1970 as a live-action/animated fantasy film, directed by Jones and Abe
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