A review by penwing
Oz, Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz / Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

4.0

To be honest, I found The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to be quite the slog. I mean, it's easy to read (children's book), but everything is so coincidental and easily overcome and a little too on-the-nose ("if only I had a brain I could come up with a clever plan like...").

By the second though Baum seems to have found his funny-pen. The translation scene between Jack Pumpkinhead and the Scarecrow, for example, was gloriously done 8-)