capellan 's review for:

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2.0

I don't feel that the second Oz book has the same whimsical charm as the first, partly because its plot is even more arbitrary and meandering, but also because some of the "humour" really does show every one of its hundred-plus years of age. Yes, as an adult I can pick up hints that Baum may have been lampooning sexist attitudes to some extent, but kids are very literal readers, so I doubt many of them got that.