Books like The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
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What it is about
- Creativity and Imagination
- Boredom
- Magic and Supernatural
- Discovery and Learning
- Children's stories, American
- Imagination
Kind of book
- Novel
Ages
- Ages 8-12
- Ages 8+
- Children's
Books like this one
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's
about 300 pages
Cover from Google BooksWhy: Both are adventure and fantasy books.
What both books share
- adventure
The Phantom Tollbooth: "adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure - General" (OL subject); "Adventure stories" (OL subject)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "Adventure" (OL subject); "adventure fiction" (WD genre) - fantasy
The Phantom Tollbooth: "Fantasy" (OL subject); "Fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic" (OL subject); "Fantasy--juvenile fiction" (OL subject)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: "fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "Fantasy" (OL subject); "Fiction, fantasy, general" (OL subject); "Fantasy & Magic" (OL subject)
- adventure
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Why: Both are children's adventure and fantasy books.
What both books share
- children's
The Phantom Tollbooth: "children's fiction" (WD genre)
The Lightning Thief: "children's fiction" (WD genre) - adventure
The Phantom Tollbooth: "adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure - General" (OL subject); "Adventure stories" (OL subject)
The Lightning Thief: "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "adventure fiction" (WD genre) - fantasy
The Phantom Tollbooth: "Fantasy" (OL subject); "Fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic" (OL subject); "Fantasy--juvenile fiction" (OL subject)
The Lightning Thief: "Fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "Fantasy" (OL subject); "Fantasy & Magic" (OL subject); "Science fiction, fantasy, horror" (OL subject)
- children's
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Why: Both are adventure and fantasy books.
What both books share
- adventure
The Phantom Tollbooth: "adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure - General" (OL subject); "Adventure stories" (OL subject)
The Lost Hero: "adventure" (OL subject); "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "adventure fiction" (WD genre) - fantasy
The Phantom Tollbooth: "Fantasy" (OL subject); "Fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic" (OL subject); "Fantasy--juvenile fiction" (OL subject)
The Lost Hero: "fantasy" (OL subject); "Fantasy fiction" (OL subject); "fantasy" (WD genre)
- adventure
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What they share, at a glance
The Phantom Tollbooth next to each book above. A dot means both books' records carry that fact.
| Book | Fantasy | Adventure | Children's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | shared | shared | not shared |
| The Lightning Thief | shared | shared | shared |
| The Lost Hero | shared | shared | not shared |
| The Magician's Nephew | shared | not shared | not shared |
| A Wrinkle in Time | shared | not shared | shared |
| Holes | not shared | shared | not shared |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | shared | not shared | shared |
| Redwall | shared | not shared | shared |
| Howl's Moving Castle | shared | not shared | not shared |
| Into the Wild | shared | not shared | shared |
| The Sea of Monsters | shared | shared | not shared |
| The Mark of Athena | shared | shared | not shared |
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The Phantom Tollbooth: the facts, checked
Each line names the page it was checked on and the date.
- First published
- First published on August 12, 1961. Source: Wikidata, checked November 6, 2026.
- Another edition on record
- The Library of Congress record found by this book's ISBN describes another edition: a 279-page edition from Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9780394815008. Source: Library of Congress, its record of another edition, checked November 6, 2026.
9780394815008 ... 279 pages ... Alfred A. Knopf
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