A review by saroz162
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum

5.0

One of Baum's very finest: great characters, an exciting quest, and a real sense of purpose. Many seem to regard this as one of the finest books in the series, and that holds up; Baum's imagination is at its peak, and there are several sequences that linger long in the memory. One chapter is subject to some unfortunate racial stereotyping (c.f. other "African pygmies" depicted in lit of this time), but it's misguided rather than malicious. You've got to mention it - it's there - but it doesn't hold a candle to the staggering racism seen in most children's books of the period.