The Wizard of Oz (Tor Classics) by L. Frank Baum Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Wizard of Oz (Tor Classics)
Book Review: Different Enough From the Movie Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
My three year old son loves the Wizard of Oz movie from the 1930's. He has watched it 20 times in the last three months. For Christmas we bought this book to read one chapter to him each night. What a success! He now loves the book too and the story, written at the turn of the century is different enough that it never got boring for him or for us as parents. Personally, I liked the books story a little better than the movie. Give it a try, this may be a great introduction to reading if you have a toddler.Book Review: The Wizard of Oz
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wizard of Oz is about a girl named Dorothy who is a farm girl from Kansas. One day Dorothy is carried away by a cyclone to a magical land called Oz. While she is there she meets a tlaking scarecrow, a man made of tin, and a cowardly lion afraid of his own shadow. Dorothy and her friends follow a yellow brick road to the Emerald City where they hope to find the famous wizard that can grant each of their wishes. But the wicked witch keeps trying to ruin their trip to the Emerald City.The setting of the book is in a magicla land full of little people called Munchkins, flying monkeys, and a wicked witch that will melt if touched with water. The characters have their separate reasons for wanting to see the wizard. As the story goes on, the reader can not help but fall in love with them.
The text gives great detail as to what everything looks like and with those details the whole world of Oz can come to life in the readers imagination.
Book Review: Didn't care for it!
Summary: 1 Stars
It's just my personal opinion but I just didn't care for this book, I love to read and I love classic books so I bought this book and I was very disappointed, I just couldn't get into it and it was part of a series of books, I don't feel like buying a whole series of Wizard Of Oz books because there are so many other classic books that I want to read that aren't part of a series and I would rather spend my spare time reading them!Book Review: The Wonderful Wiz!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of the best books in the world. It is a great story, but at the same time it is a great fantasy. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz makes you want to go on and on and find out what happens to the characters. This book makes you want to see if the Lion gets his courage, if Tin Man gets his heart, if the Scarecrow gets his brain and if Dorothy and Toto ever get home. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the one book in the world that I want to read over and over again and never put it down. The other books in the Oz serious are also the same way. The best Oz book in the rest of the serious is Glinda in Oz because it is so funny and interesting. I reccomend everyone to read them all.Book Review: A Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This story all started when a farm girl from Kansas named Dorothy Gale, and her little dog Toto got sucked into a tornado and landed in a fairyland named Oz. In Oz she meets a bunch of strange characters, a scarecrow, tin woodsman, and a cowardly lion. Together they go on a mission to see the wizard of oz by following the yellow brick road. Each one wanting a different wish. On the way to the wizard they come across multiple things. And when they finally got to Emerald city the wizard told them that they must first kill the wicked witch of the west if they want him to make there wishes come true. Eventually they succeed in doing that along with multiple hard things to do. After all that they find out that the wizard is a "humbug" and he grants everyone's wishes. Except for Dorothy's wich is for her to return back home. So now Dorothy and her friends go on another adventure to find the Good Witch of the South. Well they found her and Dorothy got back home along with her dog Toto, and she had what she needed all along in order for her to return home. Personally in my opinion I enjoyed the book better then the movie. I would recommend this book to anyone with a good imagination, because I kept imagining the story as I read it. The book has some drawings in it wich makes imagining things a lot easier, it has drawings of the main characters, villains, and some of the scenes in the book such as there journey on the yellow brick road. I would also recommend this book to anyone if the ages of 10 and up.