The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Moorchild by Louise McGraw

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (She has written more books in the same series.I just forgot what their names are.)

And then everything by Gail Carson Levine is fantasy. 

Who is Lloyd Alexander? 

Lloyd Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostl yfantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. His most famous contribution to the field of children's literature is the fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain. The concluding book of the series, The High King, was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1969. Alexander's other books have also won multiple National Book Awards. He was also a member of Cricket's editorial board from its founding in 1973 until his death and it was he who most often expressed the voice of Old Cricket on the last page of the magazine. Here's a partial list of his books:

 The Chronicle of Prydain:

• The Book of Three (1964)
• The Black Cauldron (1965) - Winner of the 1966 Newbery Honor
• The Castle of Llyr (1966)
• Taran Wanderer (1967)
• The High King (1968) - Winner of the 1969 Newbery Medal
• The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain (1970)

The Westmark Trilogy

• Westmark (1981)
• The Kestrel (1982)
• The Beggar Queen (1984)

The Vesper Holly series

• The Illyrian Adventure (1986)
• The El Dorado Adventure (1987)
• The Drackenberg Adventure (1988)
• The Jedera Adventure (1989)
• The Philadelphia Adventure (1990)
• The Xanadu Adventure (2005)

Other

• And Let the Credit Go (1955) (first published book)
• My Five Tigers (1956)
• August Bondi: Border Hawk (1958)
• Janine (my wife, that is) is French (1960)
• Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope (1960)
• Fifty Years in the Doghouse (1963)
• Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason And Gareth (1963)
• The Truthful Harp (1967)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970)
• The King's Fountain (1971)
• The Four Donkeys (1972)
• The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (1973)
• The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
• The Town Cats and Other Tales (1977)
• The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (1978)
• The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (1991)

He was beloved by everybuggy in Cricket Country and is sadly missed by all . . . but he lives on in his wonderful stories!

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I really enjoyed The Phantom Tollbooth. I thought it was a really good book, and funny, too. It taught me not to jump to Conclusions. :-)

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

Fairest by Gail Carson Lavine

The Books of Bayern by ... (Though I never read them, they sound really good) 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Ditto)

Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Ditto x2)  

I love The Phantom Tollbooth! I've noticed that it's really hard to explain to someone who has never read it :)

By the way: For anyone who is looking up books, there's an internet page called WorldCat. It's this huge catalogue and you can basically find everything in the world. 

So, Jess, if you wanted fantasy books you'd put in Fantasy Young Adult/Elementry. It's a great website! 

I think I have read The Phantom Tollbooth about six times and then I think I have listened to it the same number of times. I think someone already suggested this, but I am not sure so I will just go ahead and suggest The Kane Chronicles. They are really good. There are two books out right now . The first one is The Red Pyramid and the second one which only came out May 3rd is The Throne of Fire. It's going to be torture to have to wait another year for the next book, but it must be really hard to write about a thousand pages, equaling two books, in a year and still take time for your family.

Wise Child, Juniper, Colman, and Robin's Country by Monica Furlong!!! They're seriuously good!!And Dreamdark:Blackbringer, and the sequel, Silksinger, by Laini Taylor.

Peaceing out for now,

-Kiwi☺☻

My favorite book of all time would be either The Sisters Grimm by Micheal Buckley or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. Actually, anything by Gail Carson Levine is bound to be amazing. (Except The Two Princesses of Bamarre, that was WAY too sad!) I also liked May Bird by Jodi Lynn Anderson, Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori (a very strange book), Magyk by Angie Sage, and way too many more to count!!

I agree about the Phantom Tollbooth, definitely a great book. You'll never think the same way about words again!