Norton Juster, American academic, architect and author of children’s books, was born June 2, 1929, in Brooklyn, N.Y. His parents were Romanian immigrants and both his dad and his brother Howard were architects.
Norton Juster, American academic, architect and author of children’s books, was born June 2, 1929, in Brooklyn, N.Y. His parents were Romanian immigrants and both his dad and his brother Howard were architects.
Juster followed the family occupation and got his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952. He then went to the University of Liverpool to study city planning. He went into the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy in 1954, rose to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade and began writing and illustrating children’s books during down time.
After the Navy, he was a professor of architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from 1970 to 1992. His most significant books are “The Phantom Tollbooth,” published in 1961, and turned into an animated film and a stage musical. Then, “The Dot and the Line,” published in 1963, and made into an animated short film that won the 1965 Academy Award.
In later years, Juster and his wife of fifty-four years Jeanne lived in Northampton, Massachusetts where she passed away in 2018 and he died March 8, 2021. They had one daughter, Emily, who said he passed from complications of a recent stroke.
We have his (B-2) book “The Hello, Goodbye Window.”
Themes for June from the library calendar include: Audiobook Month; Great Outdoors Month; Dairy Month; Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Month and Safety Month.
Summer Reading Program registration for 1st through 8th graders June 5-10.
