A review by catherine_the_greatest
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

3.0

I liked this book, but didn't love it as much as the first or third (which I actually finished before this one) installments. I started out reading this one aloud to my two little boys, as I did the first one, but they lost interest pretty quickly. This book has a different feel to the language: stiffer, wordier, something I can't quite put my finger on. I wasn't crazy about the rather sexist portrayal of girls via General Jinjur's Army. And the ending,

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wherein Tip is suddenly transformed from a rough-and-tumble boy into a girl...a princess, no less...was very strange, especially considering that when s/he appears again in the third book, there's no trace of Tip left, as if he never existed.