This has been on my TBR for quite a few years and I finally decide it was time to move it off. I thought this was very cute and it kept giving me very strong vibes of Harold and the Purple Crayon and Where the Wild Things Are.
Milo is a little boy who is bored by everything. When a tollbooth mystery appears in his room one day, he drives through it not expecting much of anything and ends up in a land complete different from home. He meets a ticking watch dog, a humbug, and Kakofonus A. Dischord, the Doctor of Dissonance. He even helps a conductor named Chroma color the world. All of these meetings happen on his way to fulfill the mission he’s given to find and set free the princesses Rhyme and Reason. During his journey he learns life really isn’t boring if you look at it in a different way.
This book is really quite fun and with all of the symbolism and motifs throughout I imagine it would be a really fun book for to teach.