Norton Juster Kids Quotations

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.