Norton Juster

Yeah, definitely.

It was The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

My dad had had to go to America for work.

And when he came back, he brought me a book.

He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing nearby stopped and rushed home to be with his family.

Without stopping or looking up, Milo dashed past the buildings and busy shops that lined the street, and in a few minutes reached home, dashed through the lobby, hopped onto the elevator, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and off again, opened the apartment door, rushed into his room, flopped dejectedly into a chair, and grumbled softly, Another long afternoon.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is narrated by Rainn Wilson.

It's available commercially, but you may have to hunt for it as it's not officially for sale in the UK.

Using clever tales and fabulous illustrations, he explains complicated concepts like factorials and patterns and exponential growth.

If you're looking for some fun chapter books with a mathematical theme, read The Phantom Tollbooth by Jester or Homer Price by Robert McCloskey.

And your high schoolers can read two fabulous math novels.

One is Flatland by Edwin Abbott and The Number Devil, A Mathematical Adventure by Inzenberg.

The idea of the butterfly effect was proposed, although not under that title, as early as the 1800s.

Even before Lorenz published his theory in 1963, a children's book, highly successful, written by author Norton Juster, was published a year before.

The passage reads, and I quote, Whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

Why, when a housefly flaps its wings, a breeze goes round the world.

Hello, Libration Nation.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a book in which generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the lands beyond in this beloved classic.

Enriched by Jules Feiffer's splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster's offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever.

For Milo, everything's a bore.

When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, He drives through only because he's got nothing better to do.

One of them was like, we agree that we'll write a new book together every 50 years.

Wow.

But so we learned like, you know, the relationship between the two of them, but about Norton Juster himself.

probably.

I wonder if the joke was that book was written by Norton Juster, who, of course, was a tribe member.

I didn't know that.

It's also just an odd way