Emerald City of Oz

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Summary: I loved it.
Review: I think that The Emerald City Of Oz is One of the best books I have ever read in my whole entire life. I reccomend taht everybody read it as soon as they can.

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Summary: Princess of Oz
Review: I'm reading the Wizard of Oz at school. Just a week ago I found a book that my teacher had bought and it was The Emerald City of Oz. I finished it today and it was wonderful. I think it is even better than the Wizard of oz.

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Summary: One of my favorite Oz books
Review: In this sixth Oz book, Baum makes an effort to close down the series and tie up all the various loose ends. Dorothy, driven by financial disaster, brings Aunty Em and Uncle Henry to Oz to live out the rest of their lives in peace with Ozma in the palace. At the same time, Roquat the Red (the old foe of the girls) decides to lay waste to Oz once and for all to retrieve his magic belt.

The middle of the book meanders a bit, as Dorothy takes Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a tour of some of the stranger parts of Oz. The various towns (Cuttenclips, Fuddles, Utensia, etc.) are half puns, half morality plays, but still clever for all of that. Dorothy is a well-written enough character that she can raise a smile even in a ridiculous scene like the one in Bunbury where she is offered a stale wheelbarrow to eat instead of the lunch she was looking for.

The Neill illustrations in this Oz book are particularly magical. For example, the big paste heads of the Whimsies have stuck in my head all the years since I have read it for the first time.

I have read all the Oz books multiple times, and this is one of the three which have proven the most memorable. (The other two are The Road to Oz and Ozma of Oz) It gets a high recommendation despite any minor flaws.

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Summary: AUFUL!
Review: L. Frank Baum is no genius, that's for sure (at least in MY opinion.) Fuddles, Flutterbudgets, Rigmaroles, Utensia and Bunbury are just not MY kind of fantasies. Not that there are not ANY fantasies I don't like at all in this book. Bunnybury and the Cuttenclips are okay. Mr. Wogglebug is now the dean of the Royal College of Art and Athletic Perfection of Oz. But he doesn't BELONG there. He deserves so much more than all of that Royal College junk. I can't accept my dear Mr. Wogglebug being a professor anymore than I can accept my dear Tin Woodman being a king (so FORGET it.) Dorothy moving to Oz PERMANETLY! Whaterver happened to "there's no place like home"! The ONLY reason Baum did that was because he wanted to stop writing about Oz forever. I am POSITIVE that if he had intended to continue writing about Oz for the rest of his life, which he did, he wouldn't have done that. And it is the same with making Oz invisible. Why, as far as i'm concerned Oz ISN'T invisible. This stupid book is full of nothing but stupid characters and places and things about Oz that I am just positively unwilling to accept. And I don't HAVE to accept them. After all, WHO is to INSIST?

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Summary: The Emerald City of Oz
Review: NOTE: This is not the edition of the book I would have liked to review. I just didn't see it anywhere. This review is based on the Del Rey edition.

The Emerald City of Oz is about how Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry go to live in Oz because of financial problems. Also, the Nome King is plotting to conquer the Emerald City along with many other dreadful creatures. To find out what happens, read The Emerald City of Oz. It's very exciting!

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Summary: The Emerald City of Oz
Review: NOTE: This is not the edition of the book I would have liked to review. I just didn't see it anywhere. This review is based on the Del Rey edition.

The Emerald City of Oz is about how Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry go to live in Oz because of financial problems. Also, the Nome King is plotting to conquer the Emerald City along with many other dreadful creatures. To find out what happens, read The Emerald City of Oz. It's very exciting!

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Summary: Another great Oz story
Review: Possibly one of my favorite Oz books. Everyone should be reading these stories for the child inside them.

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Summary: A "Must Have" for any fan of OZ books
Review: This book is a wonderful reproduction of the very first run of the very first edition of this book. When "The Emerald City of Oz" was first published, a special metalic green ink was used on the cover, and on the illustrations throughout. However, after the first printing run, it was determined that this ink was far too expensive to continue with, and so a regular green ink was used. This special edition from "Books Of Wonder" very faithfully reproduces the book as it was originally printed, including the use of a metallic green ink. Other OZ books from books of wonder are similarly faithfull in being full reproductions of the first editions.

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Summary: One of my favorite Oz books
Review: This Oz book is one of the more disjointed ones, more a sort of package tour of Ozma's magic kingdom than a quest. But the vignettes are charming and stick with you. The "Rigamaroles" have become part of this family's culture, with my 12 yo son and I occasionally getting into rigamarole competitions, where we go on and on without saying anything. Bunbury and Bunnybury also stuck with me during the six years between reading this to my first son and my second; utensia is ... punny; and the cuttenclips, the fuddles, and the flutterbudgets are all cute and endearing. A great read aloud for the 5 to 10 set.

Onr thing, though: The famed metallic ink in the Books Of Wonder edition is just sort of glittery. Nice, but not really any big deal. I don't think that this is the best looking BoW Oz book.

Rating:
Summary: One of my favorite Oz books
Review: This Oz book is one of the more disjointed ones, more a sort of package tour of Ozma's magic kingdom than a quest. But the vignettes are charming and stick with you. The "Rigamaroles" have become part of this family's culture, with my 12 yo son and I occasionally getting into rigamarole competitions, where we go on and on without saying anything. Bunbury and Bunnybury also stuck with me during the six years between reading this to my first son and my second; utensia is ... punny; and the cuttenclips, the fuddles, and the flutterbudgets are all cute and endearing. A great read aloud for the 5 to 10 set.

Onr thing, though: The famed metallic ink in the Books Of Wonder edition is just sort of glittery. Nice, but not really any big deal. I don't think that this is the best looking BoW Oz book.