Books published by publisher Knopf/Bullseye

# Paperback: 142 pages # Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, A Bullseye Book (July 1990) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0679815139 # Awards: A Booklist Editor's Choice Description: Cruel classmates, a depressed mom, and a frightened dad are all driving Angie to daydream. But lately her romance-magazine fantasies aren't doing the trick. Then, ninety-year-old Aunt Seatta visits and teaches Angie about a different kind of daydreaming... the kind that slaves did to keep their courage and motivation. They used the "get-up gift" to give themselves the shimmershine, the glow that comes with self-respect. Angie begins to create a better and real life.

Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet lovable Humbug, the Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked "Which," Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the "impossible" mission of returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.