This book lays out wonderfully the metaphor of our life's journey. It is an important tool. I thoroughly enjoyed the interpretation and particularly liked the spatial models.

It was very readable and thought provoking. I found it opening doors to making a spiritual journey out of daily living.

Initially I thought this might be a flip review of the movie the Wizard of Oz, but rather found it to be a thorough textbook and very helpful to me and my practice. And the mandala made great sense at the end. I would like to use it as a group study book.

Much more than a coloring book, this is a wonderfully abridged edition of The Wizard of Oz with the terrific original illustrations. Great for reading aloud to younger kids. And I enjoy coloring the picture myself. I also recommend the Alice in Wonderland coloring book by the same publisher - my three-year-old will sit and listen to all 40-plus pages! An excellent product at a great price.

Granted, the drawings W. W. Denslow did for the first editions of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," are not as famous as what John Tenniel did for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," but these are a lot more fun to color. The illustrations alone would have been enough to justify picking up this reasonably priced coloring book, but there is an abridged version of Baum's story as well. This is good because for those who grew up on the classical movie and never got around to reading the original story (and how many hands would you need to count those who did not grow up that way?), the differences can be rather startling. The story is especially adapted for young readers, with large type, and the pictures can be colored in which crayons, colored pencils, or even, I suppose, markers. My advice, however, would be to pick up a couple of these because it is not nice to give a child a present like this and then fight with them over it so that you can color in the Cowardly Lion yourself. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Book" is just such a neat idea. Hopefully they can do this for the other dozen Oz books that Baum wrote.

I spent my whole spring break coloring the pretty pictures, and my mommy ended up throwing the book away, but its cool, because I am gonna get another one!

I have been looking for this book in antique stores for 10 years. I was so pleased to see it had been reprinted. I remembered the title and the story about the split man. I have used this character as an illustration in many speeches that I have given. I wish that sometimes I could split myself so as to perform all the various tasks to be done. This book would be a good one for Disney productions to make into a movie! I am 71 years old now, so you can see that the original reading as achild had a lasting impression !

One of his most creative and wonderful books, Dot and Tot of Merryland enchanted me from the start. It is certianlly unusual, with a complete absence of any antagonists or even a coherent plot. It is just the journy of two chrildren through a silly, magical world where nothing is wrong and nothing ever changes. It is so pleasent to read and even better to read to a small child.

I first read this when I was 12 (back in 1948); loved the imaginative narration. Rob was my hero back then (even named my first son after him). As a youngster I could really get into the story and felt like I was in the story with Rob during his exciting adventures. I secretly thought that perhaps there was a "master key" and just maybe I could find it and go on adventures of my own.

Baum is usually known for his "American fairy tales," and the Master Key is an experiment in a new genre. Baum calls it "An Electrical Fairy Tale," and it really is part fairy tale. It reads like his other works, and flows very well. It is a great romp of fun, and the reader is pulled with the main character Rob into his numerous, wacky adventures. A great book for children.

Un libro para regalar a algun niño. Un libro imperdible, para cualquier edad.

My daughter is an OZ-junky. She got hooked as a little girl and has read every Oz book available. Now she is in 7th grade and has been taking Spanish in Middle School for 2 years. You can imagine what they read and how appealing it is to the typical student. Looking to see if there was anything new in the Land of Oz for a birthday present, I happened on this and the lightbulb went off - this is it! And it was it - she's had a great time reading this. It certainly helps that she knows the story intimately - but it has definitely helped with vocabulary-building.

This classic is enhanced by a very beautiful charm. Makes a great gift

It is the classic Baum story(unabridged) with a beautiful cover illustration and an incredible charm comes with it. It is a pair of Ruby Slippers on a gold chain! Wonderful!

Translated into Latim byC. J. Hinke and George Van Buren. Hic finitur fabula cuius titulus "Magus Mirabilis In Oz," quam scriptsit L. Franciscus Baum, picturis ornavir Gulielmus Wallace Denslow. Scalpturas fecurunt Wilsted et Taylor, chartam praebuit Societas P.H. Glatfelter, ibrum sumptibus Preli Scolar typis expressitMalloy Lithographing, Inc, et opus perfecit anno MCMLXXXVII.

L. Frank Baum considered "Queen Zixi of Ix or the Story of the Magic Cloak" to be the best of his non-Oz fantasies for children and there is certainly no reason to disagree with his self-assessment. The fairies assembled one moonlit night in a pretty clearing of the ancient forest of Burzee to weave the magic cloak. When the old king of Noland dies without any relatives to take the throne a peasant boy named Bud becomes the guy when he is the forty-seventh person to enter the city and the magic cloak that allows wishes to come true becomes very important to him in this 1905 story. Bud has to be king, whether he wants to or not, which means his sister is now Princess Fluff. Dispensing justice and trying to deal with his Aunt Rivette, who feels the new king owes everything he now has to her, are minor problems for King Bud when Queen Zixi and the armies of Ix invade Noland. To make things worse, the magic cloak is stolen.

One of the things I like about "Queen Zixi of Ix" is that it sounds like a traditional fairey tale adventures, even more so than the Oz books, in which Baum certainly created his own fantasy universe. More importantly, characters manage to get beyond the limits of their stereotypes with surprising results, which is certainly a laudable thing to do in telling stories to children. Of course, this only cements Baum's reputation in the realm of American children's literature, but then as anybody knows who has gotten beyond "The Wizard of Oz" Baum was deservedly known as Father Goose. Check out Baum's "The Sea Fairies" and "Sky Island" as well if you like this one, which has 90 illustrations on its 231 pages.

This is one of those books that you remember reading in front of a fire, and for little girl you probably envisionsed actually slipping on the coat made by fairies. I read this about 20 years ago and I can still summon up the feelings I got reading it, just by hearing, "Queen Xixi." I noticed this book by chance and decided I needed to re-own it. Please read this to you child, even if he happens to be a boy. All of us love fairies, we just haven't seen one, but this book allows us to.

This was one of my favorite books as a child - I used to listen to the record (read by Ray Bolger) over and over again. L. Frank Baum out does himself in this one. It is every bit as good as all of the Wizard of Oz books he also penned. Truly magnificent! Read this one to your kids (or just to yourself)!

I played the Yellow Brick Road in a version of The Wiz, and it's an awesome show. I will never forget it. "Ease on Down the Road" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" are probably the best songs. There is no show as creative and imaginative as The Wiz.

I'm in an adaption of the Wiz right now as an insane person, a slave, and part of the tornado. It RULZ!

let's hope the movie gets performed onstage