The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)

Milo drives through a geography made from the ways people misuse words, numbers and attention, gaining argumentative companions along the way. Each apparent detour changes how he notices the next place. Juster's map and Jules Feiffer's drawings make the conceptual landscape a pleasure to revisit. A playful choice for any age, especially when the appeal of travel lies in discovering that a familiar phrase can become a very unfamiliar location.