Title: The Road to Oz
Author: L Frank Baum
Pages: 261ish
Finished: 6/2/17
First Sentence: "Please, miss," said the Shaggy Man, "Can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"
Summary: When the Shaggy Man asks Dorothy how to get to Butterfield, they end up on a fantastical journey through various fairy countries until they reach the world of Oz. On the way they meet such people as Button Bright who doesn't live up to his name, Polychrome who's a daughter of the rainbow, and all sorts of other creatures. Once they arrive, they discover it's Ozma's birthday and they have a lovely celebration.
Thoughts: I'm finding my biggest issue is I care more about the lands that Dorothy visits and want to know more about them. But we got so little time in each visit. Baum seems more interested in his characters, yet the characters are all rather one dimensional. I did some further reading and found that many of the characters introduced in this novel are from some of his other fantasy books that weren't selling as well. He was hoping that by putting them in Oz, they'd get more attention. It seems the world only wants Oz.
No real continuity issues here that I remember.
Read for the Wizard of Oz Read-a-long.
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