Books #4, 5, & 6
Feb. 13th, 2017 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lavendersparkThe Oz books are only around 200 pages, so if it seems like I'm going through them really quick, that's why.
I love that each book opens with the author writing a note to all the children that write to him begging for more books. He seems like he was an amazing person.
Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.
Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas? was clearly part of "The Return to Oz" movie as well. I remember being terrified of Princess Langwidere's cabinet. I much prefer Emerald City's take on her. I love her masks. Except the cat one. That one is weird.
When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear. The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment. This one I'm not sure I liked so much. The people they encountered weren't very nice, but I didn't like how it always ended up with kill or be killed. Too much random killing. And it contradicts book 2! The whole story of how Ozma became Tip is changed. :(
And now I'm almost done with Meet Dorothy's new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Find out how they are able to cross the Deadly Desert and finally get to the Emerald City of Oz. The senseless killing continues... But I love Polychrome!
I love that each book opens with the author writing a note to all the children that write to him begging for more books. He seems like he was an amazing person.
Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.
Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas? was clearly part of "The Return to Oz" movie as well. I remember being terrified of Princess Langwidere's cabinet. I much prefer Emerald City's take on her. I love her masks. Except the cat one. That one is weird.
When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear. The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment. This one I'm not sure I liked so much. The people they encountered weren't very nice, but I didn't like how it always ended up with kill or be killed. Too much random killing. And it contradicts book 2! The whole story of how Ozma became Tip is changed. :(
And now I'm almost done with Meet Dorothy's new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Find out how they are able to cross the Deadly Desert and finally get to the Emerald City of Oz. The senseless killing continues... But I love Polychrome!