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Summary: Different Enough From the Movie Classic
Review: 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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Summary: The Wizard of Oz
Review: 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.
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Summary: Didn't care for it!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Baum plus Greg Hildebrandt equals wow!
Review: The favorite children's classic author of many and the favorite illustrator of many combine to produce a truly gorgeous book! It's a wonderfully surreal shock to see the familiar story with pictures that seem straight out of Tolkien!
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Summary: what can i say that's not been said?
Review: buy isbn 0-486-20691-2 by Dover Publications, Inc. it's cheap, and it has the original illustrations by w.w. denslow. that's it.
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Summary: Pictures that make you say, "yes, that was just how it was"
Review: THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN MISPLACED. IT IS INTENDED FOR THE EDITION OF "THE WIZARD OF OZ" ILLUSTRATED BY MICHAEL HAGUE. I received this book as a particularly thoughtful gift on my tenth birthday nearly twenty years ago, and it continues as one of my all-time favorites to this day. Michael Hague's charming, earthy, watercolor illustrations lend a bit of folksy magic to this classic tale that all but transport a person to Oz itself. I keep the book in my children's library, but my confession is that sometimes, on particularly drizzly days, I indulge myself in a satisfying re-enjoyment of this book, all by myself.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: The Wizard of Oz is a great boook. It is both interseting and fun. I recomend this book to everyone. I really enjoyed reading it , and would read it again! Throughout the book there are many suspenseful moments,wondering wether or not Tinman will get his heart, Lion will get his courage , Scarcrow will get his brains, or if Dorothy will get back to Kansas to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Although it differs from the movie in mant ways, it is still a great book!
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Summary: The Wonderful Wiz!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Wizard of OZ
Review: The book I read was about this girl that got send to this magical land called OZ.She wanted to go to,to this powerful wizard that could take her home. But on the way she found a scarecrow with no brain, tin man that had no heart and a lion who had no courage so they were planning to take their problems to the wizard.So they go together but find out he is a humbug he was scared of everyone and since Dorothy killed one witch when she came he wanted her to kill the other witch that was left. At last dorothy kills the other witch. So the wizard grants their wish except for dorothys, she missed her ride home. So then she goes to this good witch and she tells her that she had the power all along with the shoes she got from her first killed witch. THE END
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Summary: What more could you ask from a book for kids, or adults?
Review: 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? GRADE: A+
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