by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill
Dorothy’s Aunt and Uncle are in trouble at the farm. They do not have enough money to pay everything and they might be expulsed. Dorothy says to them they could go and live in Oz with her and Ozma agrees to that. So, once again, we found ourselves in the beautiful Land of Oz where Dorothy is going t...
I love the Morrow Books of Wonder editions. This one has green metallic ink on the main illustrations. Magic!
I want Ozma to fail. For completely different reasons, of course, than the Nomes, the Whimsies, the Growleywogs, and the Phanfasms, but the end result is about the same.The Oz books start to get better with 'The Emerald City', but my crabby grown-uptitude about continuity and plot and something meat...
Ah yes, the Nome King gets angry and tries to invade OZ (with three of his most dangerous buddies), but all is saved by dues ex machina. This is the closest OZ ever came to any real danger and also one of the better plotlines Baum ever had. Interspersed with that plot is the one where Dorothy and h...
This sixth book was meant to be the last in the series. As a result Baum tied up a lot of loose ends which really helped strengthen the series later on when he returned to writing about Oz. In this book Uncle Henry and Aunt Em get to go to Oz. While Dorothy and her aunt and uncle are touring Oz th...
The Emerald City of Oz suffers from the same issue as The Road to Oz... too many characters, too little plot. I did prefer this one to RtO though as it seemed better spaced, and there actually was some plot with the Gnome invasion. I also liked Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's reaction to Oz, even if they ...
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