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    Dorothy & The Wizard In Oz
    Dorothy & The Wizard In Oz
    Dorothy & The Wizard In Oz
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    Dorothy & The Wizard In Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Written shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and around the time Baum moved to California, the book starts with an earthquake in California. Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into an underground cavern, where begin their adventures. Little of the story, six out of twenty chapters, actually takes place in Oz. Oz is not the land where the adventures take place, but the land the characters are seeking as a refuge from adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781780009957
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    L. Frank Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American children’s book author, best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and several other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings).

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    • 3/5
      Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into an underground cavern, where begin their adventures.Not much in the way of a plot. The best part was the trial of Eureka near the end.
    • 4/5
      This isn't as much of an Oz book as some, taking place mostly somewhere within the earth. Our main characters only make it to Oz near to the end. This doesn't mean that Baum's storytelling was wasted, however. Everyone goes on a typical Oz-like journey through all sorts of unusual countries, giving the reader's mind so much to work with in terms of creating a visual for the places that they should "see" in the text.Not a favorite in the series, but not a mistake at all, this book has all of the wonderful characteristics of an Oz story while introducing many new lands outside of Oz or its neighbors. Every turn in the adventure brings more to the imagination than could be possible with many other writers.
    • 4/5
      This is the fourth book in the L. Frank Baum’s Oz series of books. In this book, as the name suggests, the Wizard returns to Oz. He and Dorothy find themselves drawn into the Earth and back to Oz. This is an interesting story that is a bit different from the other stories found in the series.
    • 4/5
      This was very well done. This volume follows Dorothy into another fairy world, this time being joined by her new kitten Eureka, her California cousin Zeb, his old horse Jim, and the wizard Oz with his nine miniature piglets. They make their way through multiple adventures in many lands, all in a quest to return to the surface world. Finally, they end up trapped just below their goal of the surface and call on Ozma to whisk them away to Oz when things seem hopeless. Eureka the cat and Jim the horse make bad impressions in Oz. There's a trial over Eureka trying to eat one of the nine piglets, which turns out to be untrue, and Dorothy, Zeb, Jim, and Eureka all return home. Oz stays in Oz and becomes Ozma's royal wizard. Ozma stays in charge. Happy story. Good book.
    • 2/5


      Maybe it was because I expected something for an older reader but I wasn't impressed with this book. In addition I did not realize they this was the fourth book in the series and did not actually know what was going on. Other than that I think the book was a little slow and if took way too long to finish this because I just couldn't get into it.
    • 4/5
      Dorothy and the wizard fall through a crack in the earth and eventually reach Oz. The climax of the story is the trial of the kitten Eureka for allegedly eating one of the wizard's nine performing piglets. It is rather a let-down.
    • 3/5
      If it wasn't for the ending trial this would have been a waste of time. Various episodes throughout with no real plot. It seemed like the author was just trying to bring all the characters together from the past three books.
    • 3/5
      Another 'journey to Oz, meet strange people along the way' tale. Moderately interesting. Enjoyed the Wizard's reunion with Oz.
    • 3/5
      Not the greatest of the Oz books. True, we get the return of the Wizard, but it lacks the excitement and intrigue of the other books. It's not until the gang reaches Emerald City that the book gets really exciting. I did like the idea behind the Kingdom of the Vegetables, but the way it came out, and the journey before it and after just fell really really flat. The new characters, Jim and Zeb, also added absolutely nothing to the plot that we didn't already . But still, it's L. Frank Baum, so I can't rate it all that badly. Not to mention, the reunion of the Wizard with the rest of Emerald City was just amazing to read, because after the Wizard of Oz, who would have thought we'd ever see that reunion, right? Awesome!
    • 1/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed the original Wizard of Oz, and some of the others... but this book felt like it had been written by a 4th grader. I was glad this was not the first Baum book I'd ever read, or I would never have read any others. It had a very unfinished feel to it, like it needed to go back to the editor another time or two.
    • 4/5
      The imagination of L. Frank Baum astonishes me. Just when you think he can't possibly come up with something new and unique, he did it again in this fourth book of Oz. Creative method of traveling back to Oz? Check. Interesting new people and dangers? Check. Lessons learned? Check. Then there's.. unusual things - such as walking on air, people made of vegetables, fruit that makes one invisible, miniature piglets and a whole slew of new characters to fall in love with (Eureka the Cat had me laughing). I think, however, one of my favorite parts of each of these books is quickly becoming the letter to his readers that Baum includes in the forward. His appreciation of the children, of their enthusiasm and his humble joy at the love for his characters make reading the book that much sweeter. Fun, fun addition to the books.
    • 3/5
      Originally published in 1908, this fourth Oz novel sees Kansas farm-girl Dorothy Gale once again transported to magical lands, this time thanks to a California earthquake, during which our heroine falls into the depths of the earth, together with a boy name Zeb, his carriage-horse Jim, and Dorothy's mischievous kitten, Eureka. Far underground, in the strange land of the Mangaboos - heartless root-people who grows on bushes - Dorothy and co. meet up with the Wizard (that is to say, the original Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), who has also fallen into the earth. Together the companions face many dangers, from the xenophobic Mangaboos to the ferocious invisible bears of the Valley of Voe, on their long journey back to the surface of the earth. Eventually, after confronting a cave full of dragonettes, the travelers are rescued by Ozma of Oz, who transports them to the Emerald City. Here Dorothy and Wizard meet many old friends, while Eureka meets trouble...I was struck, reading Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, by the many stratagems that Baum must employ in these early Oz books, to transport his heroine to that magical land. In the first, she is whisked away by a cyclone, in the third she is washed overboard in a terrible storm, and here she falls into the earth during an earthquake! Eventually the borders of Oz are closed (I forget in which title this occurs), but until that point the author must contend with the question of how to reunite his characters. The result, I am finding, is that a great deal of the action of the story takes place outside of Oz. However that may be, I enjoyed my reread of this installment of the series, although sometimes Dorothy's "adorable" little-girl accent grated a bit - I don't recall her speaking this way in the original...? - and I could have lived without the trial of Eureka, at the close of the book. Still, I was entertained to meet the Wizard again, and look forward to my reread of the fifth Oz novel, The Road to Oz.
    • 4/5
      I decided to try to get through the books of Oz that are written by L. Frank Baum this year and I have thus far gotten through the first four books of the series. I am finding them fascinating because this and the previous book (Ozma of Oz) take place mainly outside of the land of Oz itself and in other fairy lands that Baum has created for the stories. It is interesting to see him say that they are Oz stories simply because they contain the characters briefly or at the end of the tale.

      I do, however, like the book even though they are not truly Oz stories in my opinion. I enjoy reading them because they are whimsical and light-hearted in a way that most children's books simply are not. These books are truly something that I can see someone reading to their children before bedtime to make them believe that anything can happen in their lives. They are beautiful stories. There are times that Baum is harsh though in his writing about certain characters, such as in this book he again treats the sawhorse badly because of how he was created. He also calls the Wizard a humbug repeatedly. Some of these words feel like they are rude and putting someone down, which I don't like. They are classics though and they are produced from a different time period. They are an enjoyable read and easy to understand why they have stood the test of time.
    • 3/5
      This is the fourth book in Baum’s “Wizard of Oz” series of fantastical children’s adventure books.
      We’re not in Kansas anymore! The book starts with Dorothy visiting California with Uncle Henry, when an earthquake opens a passage to another land. Dorothy, her kitten Eureka (Toto is nowhere to be found in this book), and her new friend Zeb fall through the crak along with the horse Jim and the buggy, eventually alighting in the Land of the Mangaboos (a people who grow like vegetables). There they meet up with the Wizard of Oz (whose ballon has again run away with him), and begin numerous adventures in their quest to get back to earth’s surface.

      The series are enjoyable children’s books that have remained popular over generations, and are now in their second century.
    • 3/5
      Dorothy's traveling through San Francisco, when a earthquake occurs and she falls into the Earth. Once again, she's traveling through some dangerous magical lands, this time accompanied with her eat Eureka, her cousin Zeb, and his cab-horse Jim.I couldn't help notice that this is the first book of the series where Baum doesn't proclaim it to be the last Oz book ever in the introduction. I guess by this point Baum was resigned to the selling power of Oz, and it sort of shows in how much of Dorothy feels like him settling on a formula instead of the major tonal shifts he tried with Marvelous Land and Ozma (which made them back-to-back highs). I mean, what says more sequel fatigue than bringing back two favorite characters from previous books, and putting their names in the title!To be fair, Dorothy and the Wizard are the most interesting characters here: Dorothy her usual common-sense self and taking everything in stride (particularly now that fairy lands are basically normal to her now) and the Wizard managing halfway between magician and humbug. In contrast, Baum doesn't seem to be too interested in Zeb or Jim as characters (and poor Zeb is the only human visitor in the Oz books who never gets a return, let's face it, because he's boring and he's a teenage boy).Despite the overall disappointing "plot", there's still a lot of Baum's trademark inventions on display. I don't think anyone who reads this can forget the land of the vegetable people (who gain consciousness when they're plucked full grown off the vine)—a rather unsettling passage enhanced by some wonderful line illustrations by John R. Neill. Or the land of the invisible people (who voluntary stay so to avoid being eaten by the invisible killer bears). Those are the kind of dark, weird one-off creatures that made the Oz books memorable, long past any generic stumbling-about storylines.
    • 5/5
      this is not the original baum book where dorothy meets the wizard, but a followup with new adventures. I gave it high ratings because of the imaginative entities dorothy and those with her meet. i also like the talking kitten, hen, horse, and nine little piglets the qizard carried around in his pocket. the water boogle professor, wise with all book knowledge, was a trip. the kitten in her laconic nastiness poured into the mould of a cat's personality in my mind.These so=called "children's books" resurrect the delight of imagination in me at 67 years of age and i hope children never never ever become so "sophisticated" to not enjoy them.
    • 2/5
      More violence, which frankly make the books better. If you're going for that Grimm thing, you should just let people get chopped up or the whole thing feels weird. There are some mean people in this one. Including weird-ass vegetable folk.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful story that brings back the Wizard of OZ and in the end it is decided that he should become a real wizard and not a humbug.
    • 3/5
      I was rather disappointed to see Dorothy make such a big comeback in the series considering I absolutely cannot stand her. Her character is written as weak and idiotic to the point of extreme annoyance and ridiculous sexism (seriously you really needed to say Dorothy fainted while Zeb did not because he is a boy).Plot-wise this book is rather random, but the adventures are interesting. As with the other Oz books, I would not recommend for very young children, considering some of the more violent scenes, but overall a fun adventure tale.
    • 4/5
      This was one of the first Oz books I ever read. I'll always remember the PINHEAD part!
    • 3/5
      Baum introduces some new characters, of which Eureka the cat is the most interesting, and sends Dorothy and friends into some outrageous and dangerous adventures, which are inventive and entertaining, but have very little purpose other than to go from here to there.They are rescued at the end by a literal deus et machina (The Nome King's magic belt) and none of the participants questions Dorothy as to why she didn't signal Ozma earlier when everyone was in mortal danger.Ozma and the Wizard seem to have both forgotten his part in deposing her and selling her to Mombi, as they tell a totally new story about her forebears and the history of the country.Baum most like chose the story in "Land of Oz" for simple convenience, as he had no intention of continuing the series; once committed, he didn't dare sully the character of the beloved wizard.I suppose that the book/play "Wicked" adheres to the first version, although the remainder of the series (in my memory) conform to the less reprehensible figure.

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