The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Epub)

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Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four “lost” novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.

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⭐ Read it to the kids, 1-2 chapters a night. We got through the book quickly, but the kids asked many questions. What a fantastic book, this specific edition didn’t have any of the updates, which was exactly what i was after. I don’t want a PC twist, or version that is “sensitive” to this generation. Leave the story alone in its original format, offensive or otherwise. It was a great book, a great read.

⭐ This book is just beautiful! I love the way ot looks inside and out! It really doesn’t even need the slipcover as it looks perfect without it as well, but I’ll keep it because i like it too. I like the fact that it also has it’s own books aver string. Can’t wait to read it!

⭐ I bought this to read as a bed time book for my son (5 years old). He has seen the movie, so he is familiar with the story. This anniversary edition is true to the original story and is so, so, so great. It is written is large print with a short chapter format that is ideally suited to bed time story reading. We usually get through one or two chapters a night. It is also far more detailed than I remembered, with tons of great illustrations, almost one per page, that he can look at while I read to help bring the story to life.The only negative thing I can say is that some of the illustrations have writing superimposed on top, and if they are darker illustrations it makes it difficult to read. But really, that is a pretty trivial thing.Great book, great story, great time with my kiddo.

⭐ I purchased this book because it had all the original Denslow illustrations.And while it delivers on that, the quality of the printing, formatting, and layout is poor.

⭐ Watching the PBS American Masters program about L. Frank Baum, I was overwhelmed by the physical beauty of the original 1st edition shown and described. I was hoping there was a decent hardcover reproduction at a reasonable price, and there was! I was pleasantly surprised that the original imprinted illustration was on the cover, not just on the dust jacket, just like the 1st edition. I will happily share this version with my grandchildren when they are old enough.

⭐ European Fairy tales feel like old travelers, carrying with them a copious luggage filled with signals of time and places seen; you can read their modern fairy tales and feel the vertigo of centuries and millennia of traditions. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” feels like your first voyage, you only have a few personal items and the world is for your eyes a newborn. The story starts in Kansas, with a girl called Dorothy, that is taken away by a cyclone to the Land of Oz, a land that feels familiar because its magic is feed by the popular folklore from the U.S. It is not indigenous as the lion, for example, is a lion and not a puma; but it’s not European as there are kings, but they are because the population elected them as they will improve their happiness, not because there is a sense of a superior class. It is wonderfully American and unique. Along Dorothy’s travel she finds kind persons and make endearing friendships, but as beautiful the Land of Oz is, and as gray and hard is the life in Kansas, she yearns to go back at home. Is curious, these digital times seems people forget to treasure what is real and get in pursuit of digital dreams, that in the end are mirages. It doesn’t matter your age you will love this fairy tale, a land made with pieces of U.S. life and beliefs, and you will love Kansas too…The AmazonClassics edition is beautiful to read, it has X-Ray, good formatting and clean typography. It has no illustrations, as it is my first time reading it I couldn’t say if they were essential as they appeared in the original publication for what I read, but as a text certainly is a highly recommended edition. Personally I tend to prefer books without illustrations, except when the artist is quite accomplished to transmit what the writer wrote.

⭐ I love this idea of graphic novels for kids. The story is adjusted to fit the graphics but it’s a great way to introduce stories they normally wouldn’t be interested in. I wasn’t a huge fan of the characters looking creepier than they needed to (the scarecrow and wizard) but overall it looked like a cool book.The sad part was that the binding fell apart the first time I opened the book. The first 20 pages were not lined up properly and didn’t get bound to the book. Returned.

⭐ Seller should have warned me that this was an abridged and highly edited version of the book. Other than beautiful pictures, it has none of the charm of the original story. I asked for an unabridged version, and this book came up. I was very disappointed. Waste of my money!

⭐ This book cannot be more beautiful! It is so detailed, colorful, has different types of paper on different accents including a shiny metallic finish on the yellow brick road, the shoes and Emerald City. On one page it even has cardboard glasses with green filters (my daughter’s favorite part of the book). The pop-ups move when you open and close the pages, adding to the wow factor. The whole cover is matt and soft like rubber and the characters stand out since they are shiny, they truly thought about every single detail.When my daughter was 2 years old she needed some supervision with it, but now that she is 3 the book is sturdy and well constructed enough that she can play with it herself without breaking it. It is very versatile, with young children you will probably simplify the story and look more at the beautiful art, and with older kids you will read every word.

⭐ I liked many things about the book. I liked the part about Oz not really being what he expressed himself to be. He wasn’t the great and powerful Wizard. Instead, he was just a little old man who got to Oz in a balloon.My favorite part about the book was how the city wasn’t really an Emerald City. It was just a normal city but the spectacles gave an illusion of an Emerald colored city.I also really liked how Oz did the floating head trick with the fake head on the string and opening the mouth with a stick like a puppet!This book was a really good book and I loved how they went through all of these crazy, wicked adventures just to find out that Dorothy was wearing the shoes that could have taken her home all along.

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