For some reason, this terrific book is largely unread. Perhaps
because we are all so familiar
with the movie, people just don't seem to read the book.
That's too bad, because it's great. Baum has created a uniquely
American fairy tale. It teaches
several wonderful lessons: the Wizard can't help you, but you
can help yourself and there's no
place like home. What more could you ask from a book for kids, or adults?
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (A+)
Other Oz books by L. Frank Baum:
-The
Land of Oz
-Dorothy
and the Wizard of Oz
-The
Road to Oz
-The
Emerald City of Oz
-The
Patchwork Girl of Oz
-Tik-Tok
of Oz
-The
Scarecrow of Oz
-Rinkitink
in Oz
-The
Lost Princess of Oz
-The
Tin Woodsman of Oz
-The
Magic of Oz
-Glinda
of Oz
WEBSITES:
-Famous
Forty of Oz
-ESSAY:
The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum and The Wizard of Oz (Linda
McGovern, Literary Traveler)
-ESSAY
: Ode to the Wonderful Wizard (Kelli Chipponeri , Book Reporter)
-ESSAY
: THE WIZARD OF OZ: An Appreciation (Ron Kaplan , Book Reporter)
-Oz
Country (MARIUS BEWLEY, NY Review of Books)
-REVIEW: of The Annotated Wizard of Oz The
Fate of the Munchkins (ALISON LURIE, NY Review of Books)
-Gore
Vidal: On Rereading the Oz Books (NY Review of Books)
-Gore
Vidal: The Wizard of the 'Wizard' (NY Review of Books)
-ARTICLE: Celebrating 100 Years of Oz, Wherever the Road May Lead (NY
Times)
-ESSAY:
The Children's Canon (Nicholas Von Hoffman, Civilization)
-REVIEW
: of Oz Before the Rainbow : L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
on Stage and Screen to 1939, By Mark Evan Swartz (Frank Norman, The
Age)
I agree! Fairytales are so much better than the boring books by Faulkner and Kafka that we have to suffer through in school and that teach us nothing at all that'll be usefull to us ever. Who wants to always just read boring books anyway?
- james karlan
- May-14-2003, 04:03
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