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The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
I'm finding myself truly enamoured with the Oz series. What I like most about this book is the plethora of imaginative characters that Baum has created and the strange scrapes that they get themselves into. When I mention the series to anyone, it seems that the majority of people aren't even aware that there was a series and the others never got around to reading it or never saw it available in their childhood libraries. And it's a shame because it's ingeniously fantastic.
Some of the fun characters you'll meet along the way are Mombi the evil witch, Tip (the boy who was enslaved by Mombi), Jack Pumpkinhead (who Tip brings to life with the Powder of Life), the Sawhorse (also brought to life by Tip), the Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated Woggle-bug, and a flying double couch with a mounted head and palm leaf wings (also brought of life by Tip). Characters recurring from the first story are the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and Glinda the Good Witch. Dorothy, her dog Toto, and the Cowardly Lion are missing.
A great deal of the story is involved with Tip making and/or collecting friends. Additionally, a band of girls attack the Emerald City with knitting needles and dethrone the Scarecrow as king. Rather than the Scarecrow seeking to get the throne back, a search is then made for the rightful heir to the throne: the daughter of the king ousted by the Wizard of Oz. And her name is Ozma.
I'm not one of those people who fell in love with The Wizard of Oz as a child because it was a movie forbidden in our home, so my first true encounter with the story was as an adult. The whole 14-book series is available cheaply or free since it's in the public domain. My (nearly) 4-year-old daughter and I have been listening to the audiobooks and/or reading the stories at bedtime on Kindle. Both of us are excited about Book #3 of the series. She's been insisting on role-playing the characters from this book. I think she liked it more than the first book (as did I), but she missed Dorothy in this book (she comes back, shipwrecked, in Book #3, [b:Ozma of Oz|60177|Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)|L. Frank Baum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1170538598s/60177.jpg|891152]).
I'm looking forward to renting the movie version of this book. And I greatly recommend the series to lovers of the Wizard of Oz movie and/or first book of the series.
Some of the fun characters you'll meet along the way are Mombi the evil witch, Tip (the boy who was enslaved by Mombi), Jack Pumpkinhead (who Tip brings to life with the Powder of Life), the Sawhorse (also brought to life by Tip), the Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated Woggle-bug, and a flying double couch with a mounted head and palm leaf wings (also brought of life by Tip). Characters recurring from the first story are the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and Glinda the Good Witch. Dorothy, her dog Toto, and the Cowardly Lion are missing.
A great deal of the story is involved with Tip making and/or collecting friends. Additionally, a band of girls attack the Emerald City with knitting needles and dethrone the Scarecrow as king. Rather than the Scarecrow seeking to get the throne back, a search is then made for the rightful heir to the throne: the daughter of the king ousted by the Wizard of Oz. And her name is Ozma.
I'm not one of those people who fell in love with The Wizard of Oz as a child because it was a movie forbidden in our home, so my first true encounter with the story was as an adult. The whole 14-book series is available cheaply or free since it's in the public domain. My (nearly) 4-year-old daughter and I have been listening to the audiobooks and/or reading the stories at bedtime on Kindle. Both of us are excited about Book #3 of the series. She's been insisting on role-playing the characters from this book. I think she liked it more than the first book (as did I), but she missed Dorothy in this book (she comes back, shipwrecked, in Book #3, [b:Ozma of Oz|60177|Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)|L. Frank Baum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1170538598s/60177.jpg|891152]).
I'm looking forward to renting the movie version of this book. And I greatly recommend the series to lovers of the Wizard of Oz movie and/or first book of the series.