- Hardcover: 306 pages
- Publisher: Schocken (Jan 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0805238123
- ISBN-13: 978-0805238129
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Grade 2-7-One of a series of books-on-cassette that are abridged and performed as a play, this was produced to coincide with the re-release of the movie. However, this recording follows the book, not the film. The differences are significant. The book is set inside the frame of gray Kansas, but the film makes that frame much more important than it is in the book. There are no hired hands, and the witchy neighbor does not threaten Toto before the tornado comes. When Dorothy returns from Oz, she lands in a field outside the new house her aunt and uncle built while she was gone, and all Aunt Em says is, "Where in the world did you come from?" This narrow frame makes the story of the journey to Oz the only focus of the story. There are also some new characters to meet that were left out of the film. The recording is technically excellent, with expressive voices and sparingly used music and sound effects. A narrator fills in the gaps where description is necessary. This will be a popular addition to library shelves, although librarians should be prepared to answer questions about the differences.
George Pilling, Tulare County Office of Education, Visalia, CA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
George Pilling, Tulare County Office of Education, Visalia, CA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
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This review is from: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Paperback)
Definitely different from the movie - a particularly graphic battle scene. Not sure if it would make a read-aloud book for younger children, or not?
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Something of a disappointment.,
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This review is from: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Paperback)
This is certainly a tolerable children's book, better than many. But for someone familiar with and fond of the movie (and aren't we all?) this is quite a disappointment. Generally, I find the book version to be superior to the movie, so, given how much I love the movie version of this story, it was with great anticipation that I finally got around to reading it. Unfortunately, this is one of those rare occasions in which the movie is vastly superior to the book. The book is written in a style not too different from the fairie tales of Hans Christian Anderson (definitely more his than the Brothers Grimm); that is to say, it's very striaghtforward, with little or nothing in the way of style to embellish the basic story. The dialogue is bland, the plot without nuance or embellishment, the characters only a little better than wooden and one-dimensional. Which is okay for a book that is intended purely as a children's story, but given the humor, nuance, and characterization found in the movie which was based on this story, I'd expected more; I'd expected it to be one of those "children's stories" that was still entertaining to an adult. It wasn't.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Different Enough From the Movie Classic,
By "mockingbird73" (Lee's Summit, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wizard of Oz (Hardcover)
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.
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