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Title: The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0-486-25681-2 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: best oz book
Comment: Though I loved the original Wizard of Oz, and have enjoyed all the Oz books for more than 20 years (back to when my mother first read them to me), Emerald City ranks as my all-time favorite. It's full of adventure, suspense and humor. Who could forget the ridiculous roly-poly Nomes and their quixotic plan to conquer Oz with the help of some rather bizarre allies? Or the village where every house and fence (not to mention every inhabitant) was edible? As I write this, my week-old son sleeps in my lap. I can't wait to read him this book when he's old enough to appreciate it.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my favorite Oz books
Comment: 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: 4
Summary: Nice try, Mr. Baum...
Comment: After five "Oz" books, L. Frank Baum had enough, and tried to close off the series with this sixth installment. Of course, the children wouldn't let him, and he went on to write eight more, but this effort to end the series was one of the best in some time.
The last two books ("Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" and "The Road to Oz") suffered serious problems. They meandered, there was no sense of danger, nothing bad could ever happen to these characters. This time out Baum started with our heroine in a form of danger -- Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were going to lose the farm in Kansas -- and went on to reestablish the greatest threat the Oz books had left, Roquat the Red, the Nome King.
While this book again lacked a serious sense of danger, the devices Baum used in his effort to end the series were all clever, and furthermore, made for better stories when he returned to the series later. This is a lovely story, a real classic.
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Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ISBN: 0688098266 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ISBN: 0688133541 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ISBN: 068813355X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.99 |
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Title: The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ISBN: 0688147194 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 25 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ISBN: 0688149782 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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