When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Truthfully, it’s worth the read just to see what crazy things his mind came up with.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. It’s such an imaginative and bizarre world that Baum created.
They are fantastic characters.ģ) Detail: It’s the details of this book that really make it superior (and why movies almost always will pale in comparison to their book counterpart). My favorite parts of the book were easily everything about the “heartless” tin man, the “cowardly” lion, and the “brainless” scarecrow. There’s a whole slew of adventure and places that they travel! I had no idea!Ģ) More than a kid’s book: The story is very clever with a lot of adult undertones.
Here’s why:ġ) Adventure: There’s so much more to the story than going to the Emerald City and melting the Wicked Witch of the West. Everything I knew was from the movie.ġ) wonderful, 2) a bizarre menagerie, 3) oddities of travelĪnd per usual, the book completely blew the movie out of the water. I knew very little about the book prior to reading it (for example: I didn’t know it was just the first in a big series, and I didn’t know her shoes were actually SILVER OMG I GREW UP WITH LIES). But the Wicked Witch of the West has her own plans for the new arrival - will Dorothy ever see Kansas again? On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion.
To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. Genres: Children's Classic, Fantasy, Classic Literatureĭorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, because I loved it so much. I always feel a little bit ridiculous reviewing classics (it’s not like the fact that they were published years ago and today are sitting in the front of bookstores selling like hot cakes means anything at all), but I thought I had to write a short blurb about L.
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