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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

You can’t do better if you’re looking for wit, wordplay, and enough pun-inspiring passages to fill a dad joke book. This is a timeless (pun intended) tale of finding the beauty in life, no matter how hard you have to look for it.

With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever.

“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman

For Milo, every...

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