Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless." "I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted. "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.

The latter film received the 1965 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Although he has retired from architecture he still writes. 71-85568)— illustrated by Arnold Roth
So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America 1865-1895 (editor) (1979) (ISBN 0-670-65483-3) — non-fiction
Otter Nonsense (1982) (ISBN 0-399-20932-8) — illustrated by Eric Carle
As: A Surfeit of Similes (1989) (ISBN 0-688-08139-8)
A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America (1996) (ISBN 1-55591-250-8) — non-fiction
The Hello Goodbye Window (2005) (ISBN 0-7868-0914-0) — illustrated by Chris Raschka
Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (2008) (ISBN 9780439929431) - illustrated by Chris Raschka
The Odious Ogre (2010) (ISBN 0-545-16202-5) - Illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Neville (2011) (ISBN 0375867651/ISBN 978-0375867651) - illustrated by G.

Norton Juster (born June 2 1929) is an American architect and author.