Not like the movie | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder)

The original weirdness | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) | L. Frank Baum

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	• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) L. Frank Baum HarperCollins, 2000 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fantastic Gift...

I bought this as a gift for my mother & future mother-in-law who are both Wizard of Oz fans & avid readers. They both loved it! The pictures are beautiful, the pages easy to read. I had looked @ getting the entire set in one book, but am so glad that I decided to purchase them individually. I'm sure I'll be getting a set for myself soon.

Not like the movie

my mother read the books to me when i was little and coming from a generation where having a movie on Television was a treat i can remember being extremely disappointed in the movie. The main thing being the fact that Dorothy (who is supposed to be, i believe, 8) was played by someone who was definitely NOT 8. Not even close. Originally, Shirley Temple was supposed to be cast but the studio would not lend her so judy Garland got the job. The movie is very different from the book. I think the book should be read first and then the movie.

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The original weirdness

I admit, it has been years since I bothered to read this book--kiddie-hood, in fact. I also never saw the movie all the way through until I entered college. But since Oz has utterly invaded our culture, I figured I would give myself a reminder of what all the fuss is about and maybe find new ways to complain about "Wicked."Truly, this is what classic children's literature should be! Despite Baum's beginning note that he wanted to write a fairy tale with just joy and no horror, this still manages to be a considerably freaky book--and I do not mind this in the least. The recent surge of children's fantasy is only a testimony that kids want a little horror and macabre. And yet it is all done in the best of taste, an almost Carol-esque world of the bizaree and wonderful. It is almost a pity that technology at the time of the movie would not allow the capture of some of these fantastic ideas and beings. And yet I can see why so many adults continue to love this story. Maybe because I am rereading this as an adult, but I found some incredible themes that, naysayers listen, go far beyond the petty "I want this and that" mentality that is only seen in the film version.Anyway, this is simply a great adventure story that has all the ingredients of good versus evil and wild imagination and darling characters you can't help but love. I read this is one setting, absolutely mesmorized by the story that has caught the hearts of so many. After all, who doesn't want to be swept away to the magical land of Oz and be immediately declared a witch or wizard simply because you happen to be more different and exciting than the rest of the citizens? I give warning that this is somewhat different from the movie.

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Oz is Heaven

After many years, I have reread the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and enjoyed it as much as the movie. Having just completed a story that is available on Amazon (Dreality), I find my story to be quite similar an adventure. Mine is not fantasy, but based on what might happen if dreams could propel a person to heaven without them actually dying. Not coincidentally, I often reference "Oz" in comparing it to heaven and have a similar theme of wanting to leave and return back home. So, if you enjoyed "Oz" as a child, perhaps you will give my story, a grown-up version of "Oz" a chance.

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A classic

The Wizard of Oz ever been the classic read in my Library is a great read as well as viewing the DVD too. Children love to read the classics and this one is quite an imagination soaring to Emerald City. "At sunrise Dorothy and her friends resumed journey to see a beautiful gree glow in the sky when Dorothy said, "That sure be the Emerald city". Then, she rang tha bell and the big gate swung open slowing and there was a large room covered with sparkling emeralds....So goes on. Dorothy and her dog Toto reach to the Land of Oz after the cyclone hit. She along with the others, scarecrow, Munchkins, Tin woodman and the Lion explores and gets the rewards from the Oz. All are happy except Dorothy who wish to return to her home in Kansas. And there comes the winged monkeys with the charm of the Golden cap,who can fly her to her home. Later, Dorothy meets Glinda, an attractive witch who helps her out and she fly home. There is a slight different version I find in the DVD but the book is much a better read and a lot classic teaching in the classroom. Children find the book quite interesting too. L Baum's first published book Wizard of OZ later has 13 sequels of the original story. A hundred years and L Baum's works now appears in Gutenberg Project too. However, Wizard of OZ is a must pick and this book should be taught as a Literature supplement in the classroom. Enjoy.

- ilaxi

The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home."

Follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz. Here she meets the Munchkins and joins the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City, where lives the all-powered Wizard of Oz.

This lavishly produced facsimile of the rare first edition contains all 24 of W. W. Denslow's original color plates, the colorful pictorial binding, and the 130 two-color illustrations that help make The Wonderful Wizard of Oz so special and enduring.

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