by L. Frank Baum
So I hated this book. Like a lot. I got this way back in February and only finished it in July because I started going through my Kindle device and started downloading books to read back in February. I originally only read 4 percent and said nope and put the book aside. When I finished it in July I ...
Another wonderful Morrow Books of Wonder edition. Each section has different color pages.
Absolute treacle.I know this is an Edwardian child's book. So I shouldn't be so outraged to discover a book about a journey begun by blithely walking away from one's house with a shaggy man with kind eyes fondling, he assures you, the love magnet in his pocket. This journey is then revealed to have ...
Read ebook version. Very cute and creatively written. Fun little excursion from my typical murder mysteries =)
As I have said in every other review I have written on these books - I am obsessed with The Wizard of Oz. I remember reading (or having read to me) several of these books as a child, but going back and reading them again as an adult, there are so many things that I didn't remember, so many things I...
Pleasant enough. I still love Polychrome, though she seems less substantial then she did before. The Shaggy Man creeps me out a little; I never really liked him all that much as I thought the Love Magnet was cheating just a little. But now, he strikes me as a little creepy. That said, one of the...
This fifth book is considered one of the weaker books in the series. I enjoyed it, but honestly the story doesn't stand out to me other than the fact that I always loved the cover of this book. The lady in the rainbow dress is Polychrome. She is the fairy daughter of the Rainbow. Dorothy meets P...
Unfortunately L. Frank Baum's books get more and more repetitive for each book. It's as if he can't really think up more new things for Dorothy to experience, and so continues to fall back on the 'tried and tested' ones. In this one I got the feeling that there was no real plot at all, but just desc...