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Title | : | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz #4) |
Author | : | L. Frank Baum |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 148 pages |
Published | : | May 1st 2006 by IndyPublish.com (first published 1908) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Classics. Fiction. Childrens |
L. Frank Baum
Paperback | Pages: 148 pages Rating: 3.77 | 11553 Users | 641 Reviews
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When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear. The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.Details Books As Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz #4)
Original Title: | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
ISBN: | 1421976951 (ISBN13: 9781421976952) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Oz #4 |
Characters: | Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tik-Tok, Billina, Wizard of Oz, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Hungry Tiger, Zebediah Hugson, Jim, Eureka, Nine Tiny Piglets, Gwig, Ianu, Gump, Mangaboos, Gargoyles, Dragonettes, The Saw-Horse, Mr. H.M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. |
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Ratings: 3.77 From 11553 Users | 641 ReviewsWeigh Up Based On Books Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz #4)
Would I spoil things if I mention something that implied in the title? Yes, Dorothy got to Oz eventually, but it took her about two thirds of the book to finally arrive there. This time she was minding her own business riding from a train station to a Californian ranch where her uncle was waiting for her when she fell into a deep crack appearing as a result of an earthquake. She was shortly joined none other than the former Wizard of Oz himself. Trying to get to the surface they met a lot ofNot my favorite Oz book. It just reads as a series of unrelated episodes as Dorothy and her companions stumble along under the earth trying to find their way to the surface again. There's the land of vegetable people and the land of creatures made out of wood and the land of invisible people, etc. None of the lands yielded any characters with real staying power.And the inconsistencies make me wonder if Mr. Baum ever re-read his own books. In Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and Ozma arranged that Ozma would
2.5 starsThis one was quite slow and a very skipable installment. There was no quest, just Dorothy and friends trying to find their way back to Earth. And the means to get there ended up being quite anticlimactic, especially since Dorothy could have used her connection with Ozma at any point in their journey. The animal characters, Eureka and Jim, were both annoying, although the little piglets were quite adorable. There also seemed to be some alternate history introduced here, edited from the
I really like this one. Baum is sometimes hit-or-miss with how interesting the different kinds of people his characters are constantly meeting are (good sentence, Sho), but he is pretty hit in Dorothy and the Wizard. The Mangaboos, the Valley of Vo, the dragonets, and the gargoyles are all neat, although I wish the dragon herself played a bigger role, and I wish we learned more about how the gargoyles came to be and why they fight and imprison all comers, and what they would have done with our
This is one of my favorite of the Oz books. The the California earthquake that drops Dorothy and Zeb into the earth, the organically grown glass buildings, the vegetable people, the little old man living on a stair landing halfway up the mountain who makes rustles (for silk dresses), flutters (for flags), and high-quality holes (for, I don't know flagpoles?), the wooden gargoyles, the dragonettes with their tails tied to rocks, the trial of Eureka the kitten for murder of a piglet... it's all so
My children love these books! Onto the next, I believe Patchwork Girl?
Another fun story, with all of the old favourites and a couple of new ones.
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