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    <body><![CDATA[I had not only watched the well known Wizard of Oz movie with Judy Garland first, but I'd also read the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" title=" Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"> Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West</a>, as well as seen the Broadway musical of Wicked, before getting a chance to read this classic. Well, that's not entirely true, when I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1148281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately I couldn't find the edition I have.  This is due in large part to the fact that many of my books were once my parents and grandparents (I have the entire Nancy Drew collection from the 50's).<br/><br/>The Wizard of Oz series changed my life immensley.  In second grade I was Dorothy f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/545503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing &quot;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&quot; but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Populist Parable: When I opened my old used copy of this book, an aged newspaper clipping fell out of the back of it. As best as I can tell its from an old Sarpy County (Omaha World Herald?) Nebraska newspaper, and it was written by Peter Dreier. Here's what he said:<br/><br/>    Whether they ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45363352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fantastic read! I read this book during my first week of Christmas vacation while I sick and puking from stomach flu. Dorothy is so smart. I love that L. Frank Baum didn't make her some doofy little girl (like Stephanie Meyers did with Bella in Twilight - Steph, read Wizard of Oz and smarten ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41347781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to the audio version of this one. I found the differences between the book and the movie interesting. This is probably the only story that I have &quot;read&quot; and seen the movie and felt the movie was better than the book. The reader may have had something to do with it though. I foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46274064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Touted for its innovative tale-telling for children (particularly its American viewpoint), WWoO is now a testament to the evolution of children's literature since 1900. <br/><br/>I was excited to read this in preparation for reading MaGuire's Wicked, and I breezed through the first 100+ pages the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16957503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it interesting that in the foreword Baum says he didn't want this to be violent like the fairytales of the past... and yet, a little girl transports to a strange land, kills the first person she meets, and teams up with three strangers to kill again. They also kill various creatures on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40622183">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had planned on reading several books in this series (well at least the first three) but got off-track somehow (of course if you knew me, you'd know that isn't unusual). Not a bad story and the Scarecrow comes off a little better than was portrayed in the famous movie version. But I really want to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53228439">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em> (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) <em>--Emilie Coulter</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I've ever read this one. I remember the movie though; it is the only one I know that used color as a special effect, with the land of Oz in color and Kansas as it should be. In the book, Kansas is a gray place. So it was fitting that it be in black and white on film. This might have be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50870215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book one day at the library where I work as an easy read for lunchtime. Its a very short book, and I was interested to see how different the book and the famous movie are, and also, if I could pick up the political allegory that really makes the book stand out.<br/><br/>The first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45503353">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Originally published in 1900, the story of Dorothy's trip to Oz was the first truly American fairy tale. Here's a dazzling new way to enjoy L. Frank Baum's classic story about the little girl from rural Kansas who flew away on a tornado. Lavish full-color illustrations by Greg Hildebrandt, one of our finest fantasy artists, bring to life the world of the Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Wizard.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>The Wizard of Oz</u> is one of my very favorite books and I've been aching to read it to Izzy.  But at 4 (almost 5) she's not quite ready.  So, I was thrilled when I came across this abridged edition illustrated by one of my favorite fantasy illustrators Greg Hildebrandt. Any time I see any children's b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40686925">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the best book of the first 20th century for fiction books and L.Frank Baum did a very good job on his OZ series, except that he couldn't continue from the fourteenth book because he died.<br/><br/>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a well written book and it is more of a fantasy that w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39726129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been on a quest for several years now to read old fiction books, particularly (but not exclusively) American and British novels, that have been around for so long and are so famous that no one reads them anymore, because they've been made into movies or TV mini-series (often many times over), o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39353857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing &quot;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&quot; but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first exposure to the Wizard of Oz was the original movie, not the book.  It was shown yearly on television and the watching of it was an annual family holiday, much like Thanksgiving or Independence Day, for the Graffs and for the other families in our neighborhood.  It was not until relatively ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39118509">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,' was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.&quot; <br/>                                   -L. Frank Baum (from the introd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74574619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's this kickass iphone app called 'Stanza' where you can upload a bunch of books to your phone...for free! When I first downloaded the app I didn't realize how it worked and only found two free titles: Lewis Carroll's <em>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em> and Frank Baum's <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73865884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just picked up a copy this summer at the used book store to add to my son's collection and ended up reading it after reading <em>Waking the Dead<em> by John Eldredge because he references the story so often as he does other mythic tales, such as <em>Lord of the Rings<em>, <em>the Matrix<em>, and Narnia. I probably read i...</em></em></em></em></em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73344215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's odd that this is the first time I've read an Oz book. I think I started one or two, long ago, and never finished them. But many people rave about Oz, and I love old books from that era (especially children's books), so recently I picked it up and read it through.<br/><br/>It didn't take long....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69167945">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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