Back to The Dot and the Line, though.The book was picked up by the inestimable Chuck Jones — of Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons fame — and he turned it into an animated short film.

A more advanced game, 15 Supreme, proceeds by dealing out two, three, or four suits (or all of them if you want), numbers 0-10, face down. A player's turn consists of turning up cards one at a time.

Norton Juster, the children’s author best known for his books “The Phantom Tollbooth” and “The Dot and the Line,” has died. He was 91. Mo Willems, an author and animator and close friend ...