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Post by Sharon on Nov 18, 2021 22:17:18 GMT -6
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55Introduction Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Nov 23, 2021 9:55:58 GMT -6
This is my husband's all-time favorite. The book is quite good & doesn't have the Hollywood vibe to it. That's a good thing! Books are always slower moving but you get a better feel of what's going on reading it & envisioning how it looks in your head. I prefer older stories like this one as their morals tend to be different than kids are being taught in today's era.
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Post by Sharon on Nov 25, 2021 11:38:00 GMT -6
I have yet to read this entirely to be honest. I enjoy the film very much. There are details in the book that are very different from the movie I heard. For instance, Dorothy's shoes aren't actually ruby in the book.
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