Det kan bara vara The Phantom Tollbooth. Ditt minne om det är slutet.
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Trädhuset verkar vara slottet i luften. Barnen kör både till och från det.
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Den amorfa moster med tänderna:
"Naturally," the giant replied in a more normal voice (but even this was like an explosion). "I have no shape of my own, so I try to be just like whatever I'm near. In the mountains I'm a lofty peak, on the beach a broad sand bar, in the forest a towering oak, and sometimes in the city I'm a very handsome twelve-story apartment house. I just hate to be conspicuous; it's really not safe, you know." Then he looked at them again with hungry eyes and wondered how well they'd taste.
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Next to him, but just a little behind, came the Gross Exaggeration, whose grotesque features and thoroughly unpleasant manners were hideous to see, and whose rows of wicked teeth were made only to mangle the truth. They hunted together, and were bad luck to anyone they caught.
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Phantom Tollbooten läste regelbundet högt till femte graders, och även om det inte är en bildbok, är den känd för sina livliga illustrationer.