Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

This book is one of the mainstays of my childhood. In fact, I’ve read most of the original Oz books several times, and it’s nice to go back to them when I need a short, comfort read.

No doubt you all know the story. Dorothy gets transported to the land of Oz via a cyclone, has lots of wild adventures, and meets a scarecrow, a tin woodman, and a cowardly lion.

There is no possible way I can review this book objectively. A lot of my childhood has been wrapped up in the Oz stories, and, honestly, I think the books are so much more entertaining than the movies. I also vastly prefer Baum’s Oz to Gregory Maguar’s revisionist Oz, because I’m not looking for deep moral issues when I read these books.

That being said, of course, my grade is a definite A+. Highly recommended.