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rolandsaintlaurent's review against another edition
4.0
Baum's first book of fairy tales. It's ridiculous shit, with popcorn snow and rootbeer rivers, but there's some good stuff in it. In particular I liked the story about the prince who gets cut to pieces and has to reassemble himself, at one point being nothing more than a head and two legs. The stories are too fantastical for my liking, and I can't stand his reassurances that the good characters will never die. I mean, I get it, this shit's for kids, but way to suck out any possible drama from the book. If we're constantly reassured that no harm will ever ever ever ever ever come to the good characters, then every battle with evil, ferocious monsters has no stakes and just feels "meh."
vmorenojackson's review against another edition
4.0
It took many months of a couple of pages each night, but Connor and I finished his first real book. When he can actually understand the words, I'll wait until I can have a conversation with him about why it's okay to drown people, squish them flat, and dismember them in this book but not okay in real life. I absolutely appreciate the whimsy though.