mveatch6 's review for:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
4.0

Shocking truth about me: I do not like the movie The Wizard of Oz. I know it's a classic, and people love it, but I think it is creepy, and I'm not into it. But I do kind of like the super trippy 1985 movie, Return to Oz, plus it's my ongoing goal to read several classics a year, so I decided to give this a shot. And I liked it better than the movie, but not as much as that other super trippy children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (full disclosure-I also hate that movie). It's a little too violent for my kids books taste (many, many heads are chopped off by the Tin Woodman), but there is a lot to love in the characters and the strange land they end up in.