Dover Children's Classics: The Road to Oz (Paperback)

from librisissimo

By this time, Baum was desperately trying to get out of the job of Royal Historian of Oz. This volume phones it in, checking the boxes readers expected. Even so, there are some delightful inventions, and traces of Baum's characteristic quiet satire. NOTES: p. 24 Shaggy Man tells a story about the...

from ElizabethChapman

I read many, many of the Oz books in my childhood and the characters in The Road to Oz were some of my favorites -- after the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz of course. Even now as an adult often think of the Shaggy Man and his Love Magnet (Love Magnet meant something rather different in...

from CassieWinters

As I continue to read these books as an adult I am shocked by what Baum has gotten away with as an author. Some of the spark that I had for this series as a child is quickly leaving as I realize some of the mechanics that he uses as an author that I simply am not fond of or even okay with. He oft...

from nx74defiant

Journey with Dorothy and Toto once more to the magical Land of Oz-this time with the Shaggy Man, little Button-Bright and the beautiful Polychrome. Meet such amazing characters as the Scoodlers, the Musicker and Johnny Dooit. No real plot. Dorothy travels on a road meets the Shaggy Man and Button...

from Sean191

The second Oz book I've read. All the familiar characters from the first make an appearance and the story is again fun, weird and ...weird? Baum had some imagination and for a kid's book, Oz is something else. I don't think it's a problem for kids to read, it's not quite as Disney-fied as the mov...