Juster and his wife eventually moved from Buckland to Amherst when daughter Emily became a teenager.
“We lived way out – one of those old farms on a hillside full of rocks – and our nearest neighbors were three-quarters of a mile away. Sometimes, when I drove home late at night, there would be a 300-pound bear waiting for me,” Juster recalled.
While a “bad back and bad knees” keep Juster, now 82 and a grandfather, from donning snowshoes these days, he is looking forward to this month’s area celebrations for “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
The book, with illustrations by equally legendary artist Jules Feiffer, is being saluted by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers with the recent publication of a version featuring annotations by historian and critic Leonard Marcus, and a 50th anniversary edition that, besides the text, includes short essays by noted individuals like Pulitzer Prizer winner Michael Chabon as well as the 35th anniversary essay by Maurice Sendak.
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