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Title: The Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics) by Frank L. Baum, Malvina Vogel, L. Frank Baum ISBN: 0-86611-959-0 Publisher: Abdo & Daughters Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I LoVe ThIs BoOk!
Comment: I got this book when I was a little girl, about the age of 3 or 4, and every night my Mom would read each chapter too me. I loved this story, and I'm also a fan of the movie. I'm 13 now, and I still read the book sometime's (by myself, lol). I can't wait to show this book to my kids when I'm an adult! :)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just follow the yellow brick road!
Comment: Dorothy, a little girl with no parents, lives on a farm in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. But one day, a cyclone comes to Kansas and takes Dorothy & her dog, Toto away from Kansas and dropes them in Oz. The only way she can get home is to find the wizard of Oz. And on her way there, she meets some friends with some wishes of the own.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great to read to your kids!
Comment: This is a version of the classic story, simplified for kids. (The written version is a little different from the movie.) Although it is simplified, the sentences are complex enough to stretch the minds of younger readers.
The book also has many illustrations (almost every other page is a black-and-white drawing). Unfortunately, the style of the illustrations reminds one of contemporary comic books (not a bad style in itself, but inappropriate for this book, I think). In addition, the illustrations do not always precisely match the description given in the text. Still, they do help to break up the text, and hold the interest of younger kids.
The description says that this is intended for readers at the grade school level, but my three-year-old twins enjoyed having it read to them. (Then again, they have very long attention spans.) I was worried that they would find it too scary (in this version, the tinman kills a bunch of wolves with his axe, and the scarecrow breaks the necks of some evil crows), but they told me they weren't scared, and they don't seem to have had any bad dreams. (Your mileage may vary! ;-)
This is part of a series, "Great Illustrated Classics." Based on this book (which I just happened to run across in a pharmacy), I am buying several more from the series online for my kids.
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Title: The Call of the Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London, Avi ISBN: 0439227143 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0451523814 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, Mitsu Yamamoto ISBN: 0866119795 Publisher: Abdo & Daughters Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Walt Disney Classic Edition: Peter Pan by Monique Peterson ISBN: 0786853301 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss ISBN: 0440415942 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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