Re: Queen steals sound, but boy wins in the end

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
karen r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looking for the title of a book from the 1970s, I think, in which a
>wizard sends a boy on a dangerous but vital mission. Among the boys
>adventures is one in which an evil queen has stolen sound. The boy
>defeats the queen by stuffing words into a cannon, with which he
>destroys her castle.

Most definitely _The Phantom Toolbooth_ by Norman Juster.
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