Hardcover , pages. Published May 1st by Mundus first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Emerald City of Oz , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Emerald City of Oz. Lists with This Book. Dec 28, Evgeny rated it liked it Shelves: The book consists of two completely different plotlines that kind of converge in the end with "kind of" being the key word. Dorothy finally realized it would be a good idea to bring her aunt and uncle to the Land of Oz.
She was made a princess of that land several books ago, but waited for a while before realizing it might be a good idea to bring her only living relatives to the magic place. Actually she waited until her uncle's health became so bad he could not work on his farm anym The book consists of two completely different plotlines that kind of converge in the end with "kind of" being the key word. Actually she waited until her uncle's health became so bad he could not work on his farm anymore. For this reason I would call Dorothy to be a little slow in the mental department, even considering her age.
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This part was amusing at times and the new creatures encountered by Dorothy and her adoptive parents were highly imaginative and amusing. Dorothy's favorite pastime is to get lost and end up in the Land of Oz and here is no exception. This time she manage to get lost in Oz itself. By the way it might look cute, but the episode where she ended up hungry in a country of living gingerbread and insisted to eat some of its inhabitants stroke me as very disturbing.
The Nome King who was put to shame in front of his subjects by Dorothy and Co. He enlisted some evil creatures to aid him and found the way to cross the impassable desert which separates Oz from the rest of the world. This one had so much potential, all wasted in the end. The beloved rules of Oz, princess Ozma did not even try to resist the invaders knowing in advance they would kill her mortal subjects and make slaves out of the immortal ones.
Nice care for the people who adore her, by the way. This part was resolved by a heavy use of a typical Deux Ex Machina in the very end. Frank Baum wanted to finish the series with this book and it is very clearly shows here; we all know that he changed his mind later and wrote many more of the books of the series. The only reason I rated this one with 3 stars instead of more deserved 2 is the fact that I read the book twice. I did my reread to refresh my memory for the review and for the next book I only read first six the first time around. View all 15 comments.
Oct 30, Paul E. Morph rated it really liked it Shelves: I think I've been near punned to death This would've made a nice end to the Oz series if Baum'd stuck to his guns and not written any more. Still, thousands of demanding fans and an emptying bank account are difficult to ignore I liked The Emerald City of Oz a bit better than the last two.
There was still an element of characters taking a trip just so Mr. Baum can show off all the other ideas he has for interesting creatures Look! These ones are living jigsaw puzzles! And over here we have animated flatware! And these people can't stop talking!
First of all, there was some actual evil in the form of the Nome King and his General Guph. And there was a genuine problem to overcome i. Not that Ozma seemed to care much. Drove me nuts that she "really hadn't given it much thought" that creatures who hated her and everything she and her people stood for were about to ravage her land and enslave her people! I wonder if Mr. Baum was a pacifist or, alternately, if he thought pacifists were ridiculous.
Ozma's "I-won't-fight-even-to-save-my-people-from-a-fate-worse-than-death" approach kind of left that up to interpretation. Some isolationism shows through, too. Interesting in light of the time in which it was written early 20th century, prior to World War I. Anyway, I think Mr. Baum put a bit more in to this book because he planned for it to be the last. He seemed almost gleeful to include Dorothy's little letter in the last chapter. It's definitely an improvement over the last few.
And my boys are still loving the series. For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have arrived in Oz -- what fun!! Not only that, but Dorothy and friends get to lead the newcomers to various places around the Land of Oz, and meet some of the most fascinating peoples. My favorites may have the been the living kitchen utensils of Utensia Another intriguing point in this story is that Baum obviously intended for this to be the final book.
Lo and behold, his readers didn't allow it. But this makes for a great "Reichenbach Falls" ending, for the moment Sherlockians know what this means. Sep 01, Marley rated it it was amazing. Apr 17, Line Bookaholic rated it really liked it. 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.
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So, once again, we found ourselves in the beautiful Land of Oz where Dorothy is going to live some great adventures and meet some new people. This seems like it was the last story about Oz but I know there are many others, so I am not sure about what happened here, I guess I will see when I read the others.
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Nov 05, Wendy rated it it was amazing Shelves: This was one of the best Oz books!!! Dorothy's aunt and uncle move to Oz! They tour the land without knowing that the evil Nome king is tunneling right under them! When Dorothy gets back they fight off the Nome king and all is well View all 3 comments. This is my least favorite Oz book, but it still has lots of cute and fun things for the children He allies himself with some other despicable rulers, and meanwhile, Dorothy brings her view spoiler [Aunt and Uncle to Oz because of the foreclosure situation hide spoiler ] , and meets up with old friends, and encounters new creatures Apr 05, Sara Santos rated it really liked it Shelves: Not as good as the last book.
The Emerald City of Oz started out very funny and entertaining with its great wordplay. Then the story took a little turn to the darker side Feb 08, Shoshana rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Even though this book is mainly just Dorothy and friends wandering around Oz while the Nome King builds an army and a tunnel and no one does anything about it, I actually really like it a lot.
I enjoy discovering the Flutterbudgets and Utensils and Bunburyans and Bunnyburyans and especially the Fuddles and Cuttenclips, not to mention the Whimsies. They "had large, strong bodies, but heads so small that they were no bigger than door-knobs. Of course, such tiny heads could not co Even though this book is mainly just Dorothy and friends wandering around Oz while the Nome King builds an army and a tunnel and no one does anything about it, I actually really like it a lot. Of course, such tiny heads could not contain any great amount of brains, and the Whimsies were so ashamed of their personal appearance and lack of commonsense that they wore big heads made of pasteboard," which they decorate with pastel wool and large bright eyes.
Baum is in top form here - as are my favorite characters: Billina, we discover, has had eleven children and named them all Dorothy until two disobliged her by turning out roosters and she renamed them Daniel - funny, since back in Ozma of Oz she didn't see the point in changing her name from Bill when she discovered to be female - and she has an additional 86 grandchildren and over three hundred great grandchildren, all of whom are ALSO named Dorothy and Daniel! And then there's Aunt Em. Part of what makes this one so good is Aunt Em's cranky, down-to-earth, back-to-reality commentary as she adjusts to life in Oz Uncle Henry, who adapts better even though he originally had the most doubts, is less interesting, though amusingly placid.
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And I wondered where Dorothy got her combination of intrepidity and placidity! Upon first encountering the Cowardly Lion, Aunt Em decides to "eye that lion out o' countenance and save [their] lives," at which point she "turned upon the Lion a determined countenance and a wild dilated eye" until he becomes so uncomfortable that he asks if she's all right. Aunt Em is fierce! She is also the only skeptical person in the bunch. Then there's the weird part where Ozma notices the Nome King building a tunnel to the Emerald City and proceeds to do absolutely nothing and for a long time tell nobody about it.
Finally our friends discover this pretty alarming situation and confront her, whereupon she laughs "with genuine amusement" and says, "Why, that has not troubled me a bit! What is the matter with her?!? After dinner we will all meet together and talk it over. I mean, I get that she's a pacifist more on that in a moment , but you'd think she'd at least have thought about the situation! The pacifism is great, though. Ozma is completely adamant that no one has the right to hurt other living creatures in any way which is a weird juxtaposition to Dorothy's cavalier attitude about eating the Bunburyans.
Oz also happens to be explicitly communist although Baum does append his description of their politics with the caveat that it might not work in the real world: Each person was given freely by his neighbors whatever he required for his use, which is as much as any one may reasonably desire Each man or woman, no matter what he or she produced for the good of the community, was supplied by the neighbors with food and clothing and a house and furniture and ornaments and games.
If by chance the supply ever ran short, more was taken from the great storehouses of the Ruler, which were afterward filled up again when there was more of any article than the people needed. One last fault of this book, though, and it's a frustrating one, is their difficulty figuring out how to turn away the invaders. In fact, the Nome King plots about how once he gets the magic belt he'll use it to send his allies home if they turn against him, and in fact Ozma uses it at the end to send them all home after they have been incapacitated!
Why not use it from the beginning?
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But no, we have to suspend our disbelief about a very convenient coincidence that allows for a more complex plan to be put in action. It heightens the suspense a little, I guess, but it is pretty irritating. And it's pretty much the only thing that keeps this book from a full five-star rating. I wish I could give it a four and a half, because it's better than the other Oz books I've given fours.
Sin lugar a duda, creo que este ha sido el mejor libro de la saga. Lo acabo de terminar y quiero comenzarlo de nuevo a leer. May 26, Garrett Zecker rated it liked it. Doma Publishing's Wizard of Oz collection has taken me several years to read with my son at bedtime. It was interesting revisiting the texts that I read swiftly through my youth, as I was about his age when I read them and remembered little beyond some of the characters that don't appear in any of the books. I picked up a copy of this version since, for 99c, I could have the complete series along with "All the original artwork by the great illustrator W.
Denslow over 1, classic illustratio Doma Publishing's Wizard of Oz collection has taken me several years to read with my son at bedtime. Denslow over 1, classic illustrations ", and to read the complete book text at bedtime with all original color illustrations on my Kindle Fire knowing that there would be cross-linked tables of contents and no layout issues, it was worth my buck rather than taking them all out of the library.
We read these books before bed at home and under the stars by a campfire in the forest, in a hotel in Montreal and in a seaside cottage in Nova Scotia, on a boat and in a car.
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We read it everywhere, thanks to the Kindle's mobility. You may be reading this review on one of the individual pages for the original books on Goodreads or Amazon, and if so, all I did was cross-link the books along with the correct dates we read the original texts. The only book I did not cross-link with original dates was the Woggle-bug book, which if you know, is short.
Instead, I counted that final book as the review for Doma's Kindle version. You may notice that some books have longer reading spans — probably for two reasons. One, I traded off reading with my wife sometimes, and two, sometimes we needed a little Baum break and read some other books. It did get a little old sometimes, and there are fourteen books totaling pages in their original library printing.
The first thing I think is worth mentioning is that when I first read these books, it was as a child would read them. I remember them being repetitive but familiar. An antiquated adventure, but a serial adventure with recurring characters unparalleled in any other literature. As an adult with an MA in literature and soon and MFA in fiction , I am actually somewhat unimpressed with the series. Baum wrote a whimsical set of tales, but they are torturously repetitive and would be easy to plug-and-play by replacing characters and moments with a computer to make an entirely new book.
But, they are children's books, and we are completely enthralled and comforted by the familiar. Is not Shakespeare the same play-to-play structurally? Are not Pixar or Star Wars movies definitively archetypal in timing, execution, structure, and character so that they can be completely replaced and reapplied to a new story? Even the films — heck, even the trailers - are cut the same, and if you play them all at once, magic happens see: I suppose where the real magic of these books happens is in their origin.
Baum wrote something completely original that took the world by storm and continues to be a whimsical American bellwether for children's fantasy. It is one of the original series specifically for children, spanning fourteen books written almost yearly and gobbled up by a hungry public.
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The result is very satisfactory to the publishers, to me, and I am quite sure to the children. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, The author died in , so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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