The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum It's such a long time since I read this story, but I remember all the illustrations so well! I must have read it many times as a kid. I think we all know the story, so I won't repeat it, except to point out that there is about three times as much material in the book as there is in the movie. I'm not a huge fan of the movie -- I didn't grow up on it like so many people did -- so I won't say a lot about it either. But Baum puts in a whole lot of hazards and side-trips that couldn't fit in the film version! L. Frank Baum was wanting to write an imaginative, fairy-tale type of story for the new America. Forget all those princes and princesses, and especially all the violence, death, and heavy-duty moralizing of 19th-century children's literature! This was going to be a fun, quirky story for a vigorous, expanding America, and it was going to star some familiar sights for an American child, like scarecrows, far
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