Not sure how old my kids were when I read them the Oz books, but they enjoyed them. #1 daughter has a bunch of them, and would probably be glad to lend them.
The "only a dream" ending bothered me too, but also the combining of the two good witches into one messed things up even more. In the book, the Witch of the North had no idea what the power of the shoes was. By combining her character with Glinda, they then had to give a really lame explanation for why she didn't tell Dorothy how to get home back at the beginning of the story.
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Date: 2014-02-13 02:27 am (UTC)The "only a dream" ending bothered me too, but also the combining of the two good witches into one messed things up even more. In the book, the Witch of the North had no idea what the power of the shoes was. By combining her character with Glinda, they then had to give a really lame explanation for why she didn't tell Dorothy how to get home back at the beginning of the story.