Characters
He is the bored main character who begins the adventure.
Who is Milo?
Milo first travels here after entering the tollbooth.
What is Expectations?
Milo receives this mysterious item that begins the story.
What is the Phantom Tollbooth?
Tiny creatures who discourage thinking.
Who are the Lethargians?
The object that ticks inside Tock.
What is a clock?
The watchdog Milo meets, part dog and part clock.
Who is Tock?
Milo becomes stuck here for not thinking.
What is the Doldrums?
What Milo must do to escape the Doldrums.
What is think?
The buzzing character who spells everything he says.
Who is the Spelling Bee?
This tells Milo where he is when he enters new lands.
What are road signs?
This king rules over words in Dictionopolis.
Who is King Azaz?
The busy marketplace city where words are bought and sold.
What is Dictionopolis?
The marketplace where Milo buys letters and samples words.
What is the word market?
Plump, boastful character who joins Milo on his quest.
Who is the Humbug?
The color of Milo's car.
What is purple?
The brother who rules over numbers in Digitopolis?
Who is the Mathemagician?
The place where the banquet occurs and ministers argue in circles.
What is King Azaz's palace?
What is to rescue Rhyme and Reason?
The police officer who arrests Milo for "crimes" at the market.
Who is Officer Shrift?
The dish Milo receives at the banquet and learns you must choose words wisely.
What is a "square" meal?
These two sisters were banished, causing conflict between words and numbers.
Who are Rhyme and Reason?
Where Milo, Tock, and the Humbug will need to travel to rescue Rhyme and Reason.
What is the Castle in the Air?
Milo hears the story of why Rhyme and Reason were banished and the conflict between words and numbers from this character in the dungeon.
Who is Faintly Macabre, or the Which?
The boy who floats above the air.
Who is Alec Bing?
Milo's sentence for causing the fight in the word market.
What is 6 million years in prison?