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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I enjoyed listening to this book on audible narrated by Anne Hathaway. She does so many different voices! I am pleasantly surprised by her narration.
I only gave the book 3 out of 5 stars because I like the movie version so much better. It was fun to listen to the original version of the story but the songs and red shoes were missing! And so many of my other favorite parts, like the phenomenal surprise ending in the movie, were missing. But it was worth a read (or listen in my case) just to further my experience of this story.
I only gave the book 3 out of 5 stars because I like the movie version so much better. It was fun to listen to the original version of the story but the songs and red shoes were missing! And so many of my other favorite parts, like the phenomenal surprise ending in the movie, were missing. But it was worth a read (or listen in my case) just to further my experience of this story.
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I read this one aloud to my seven year old son. His review (with some sentence starters from mom :):
It's about this girl with a dog and they went into a cyclone and the house carried it over to this weird place. She killed the witch of the East and the munchkins and their queen gave her a kiss and the girl wore the shoes of the witch of the East. Dorothy wants to get back to Kansas so she wants to go to Oz the Great and Terrible and when she is trying to get in the balloon, she wasn't able to get in. It's cool because I like hot air balloons and I like cyclones. It's very funny when all the china people just broke when they got stepped on.
The people that she meets along the way are the scarecrow, the lion, the tin woodman. It was a really exciting book because when they went up into the cyclone I was really wondering what was going to happen. The really scary part is when those big beasts come. I think the idea of this book is to never give up because when the girl named Dorothy, when she was trying to get to Oz, she never stopped trying.
And there you have it. I, personally, wasn't thrilled. It's all fine and I like the illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger in my copy, but the story is rather blandly told, in my opinion. I like the irony of searching for something you already have. The idea of Oz being really a human from the midwest is rather clever - and I like it for old time's sake (which does matter) plus, Preston really did enjoy the whole thing.
It's about this girl with a dog and they went into a cyclone and the house carried it over to this weird place. She killed the witch of the East and the munchkins and their queen gave her a kiss and the girl wore the shoes of the witch of the East. Dorothy wants to get back to Kansas so she wants to go to Oz the Great and Terrible and when she is trying to get in the balloon, she wasn't able to get in. It's cool because I like hot air balloons and I like cyclones. It's very funny when all the china people just broke when they got stepped on.
The people that she meets along the way are the scarecrow, the lion, the tin woodman. It was a really exciting book because when they went up into the cyclone I was really wondering what was going to happen. The really scary part is when those big beasts come. I think the idea of this book is to never give up because when the girl named Dorothy, when she was trying to get to Oz, she never stopped trying.
And there you have it. I, personally, wasn't thrilled. It's all fine and I like the illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger in my copy, but the story is rather blandly told, in my opinion. I like the irony of searching for something you already have. The idea of Oz being really a human from the midwest is rather clever - and I like it for old time's sake (which does matter) plus, Preston really did enjoy the whole thing.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book bugged the crap out of me. I am not a huge fan of the movie; books and movies rarely have anything in common I figured that this would be a good book to try for a classic children's book (part of the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge). In the 1900's children's books tried to shove the author's version of morality down the children's throat. You can definitely see that in this book, it is often extremely repetitive.
The worse part about the book is that Dorthy is such an insipid little twit. 'Oh, no. I have been enslaved and accidentally melted the witch. Are you ok? I feel so bad.' Please, nobody is going to feel that way, especially a little kid.
The worse part about the book is that Dorthy is such an insipid little twit. 'Oh, no. I have been enslaved and accidentally melted the witch. Are you ok? I feel so bad.' Please, nobody is going to feel that way, especially a little kid.
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes