Book cover for The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

Ages 1 to 11

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07 February 2019
192 pages
9781509881963
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

Reviews

Like Robin Hood, Alice or Winnie the Pooh, Baum's inventions . . . have become the mythological furniture of our children's minds, and of our own and our parents' . . . Funny and inventive
The tales of Aesop and other fabulists . . . will never pass entirely away, but a welcome place remains and will easily be found for such stories as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum created a truly extraordinary world, a real world . . . and filled it with amazing things
[It] has worked its way into the national psyche as a fable of eternal hope in which things are not always as fearsome as they seem