Thus the story has a very interesting start. He drove his car through the tollbooth to an unfamiliar country .At this part, it increases curiosity that what is going to happen next . He made friendship with “Tock the watch dog .Then he finally reached “Dictionopolis “ the kingdom of words where he made friendship with spelling bee and humbug and met officer shrift. He heard Faintly Macabre's story and learned about “Digitopolis” the kingdom of numbers and the banished princess “Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason”. He decided to rescue the princesses. Here the author starts introducing new words within the story .The princesses were banished by king Azas ( ruler of Dictionopolis) . With Humbug and Tock he reached the Forest of Sight where musicians played music to make the forest colourful ,if there were no music ,the forest would only be monotonous and met Chroma.
At this part the author shows the importance of music. And then Milo went to the valley of sound where he rescued the people by giving back their voices and met Dischord , Dynne and the sound keeper . Here the author shows how it would be without sound. And they found their way to Digitopolis and jumped into conclusions unknowingly and met Canby and swam in the sea of knowledge . Milo made friendship with Dodecahedron the man with 12 faces that has 12 different emotions on each face. He met the mathemagician ,the ruler of Digitopolis and travelled to the mountains of ignorance where demons lived and went to “the castle in the air” escaping from all the demons and then finally rescued the banished princesses and brought them back to the kingdom .And this is the end of the epic journey …
This story shows the importance of words ,numbers and time. And so In my opinion, since this book is filled with antonyms , synonyms and homophones which increases vocabulary of the children along the epic journey,it’s a must read book for kids …
R. Shravini Arunthiga 5 C
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