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

On 28-Nov-03 at 12:07pm -0800, <[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.

 > When the boy returns to the wizard victorious, the wizard tells him
 > his mission had been impossible, but since he was too young and
 > idealistic to realize that, he was the only person who had a chance
 > to win anyway.

I never cease to find it fascinating how recognizeable books remain,
even after memory has thoroughly mangled them. This is unmistakeably
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster (you can get it on Amazon),
but I also don't doubt that Mr. Juster would be rather amused by your
rendition of it! It wasn't a Queen, it was only the Soundkeeper. And
Milo (the boy) wasn't then on any particular mission -- that comes
much later in the story. Otherwise you're not all that far wrong!   :)

--_____
 {~._.~}      "...He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus
 _( Y )_  the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right
(:_~*~_:) to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been
 (_)-(_)  unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be
--------- quite the same boy..."              --------------------------------
                                              --"Peter Pan", Chapter VIII,
"Glenn P.," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>        By: Sir James Matthew Barrie.

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