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I'm glad I finally read this--I've still got Mary Poppins and Peter Pan to read--along with some other children's classics. Not a fantastic piece of literature--I think a lot of Baum's ideas were amazing but can't give it higher than a 3. I think the movie version really took the raw elements of this story to the next level.
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I read this to my kids, and they thought it was a bit too silly. I thought it was fine. I got a kick out of the scarecrow’s “bran-new brains”.
Listened to the audiobook version of this in the car with my five-year-old. We'd already read the book at bedtime, so he was familiar with the story and enjoyed hearing it read again. I have fond memories of watching the movie and am looking forward to watching it with my son now that we've finished another reading of the book. I had forgotten the ways that the book differed from the movie, so it was fun for me to revisit this story in this format. Compelling, engrossing, a bit violent but in wa
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This is the first time I have read this childhood classic since my sisters and I were kids. It was interesting to see how the movie differed from the book, and while I well-remembered some events, there were others I had quite forgotten. I look forward to passing this on to my youngest niece!
I suspect I would have loved this if I'd read it before I saw the movie. As it was, there were no surprises.
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I liked it and it was good. anna
