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Title: A fantasy which still transports me to a place I want to be.
Review: Ahhhhh. Freedom, and escape from the monotony of the high plains to the wonderful land of Oz. Safely surrounded by the deadly desert, and overseen by Glinda the Good. This is not an insipid story for seven year olds, not an interaction of a child with adultoids, nor is it the call of the populist party for free silver. It is the gate to another place, the first ticket to a land that I have spent many hours gladly wandering in. To read the wizard without going on to Glinda, and tik tok, and the wogglebug, is to deprive yourself, and your children of a path, not unlike the path through the wardrobe into Narnia. Baum didn't set out to write "Alice". He wrote an American fairy tale. And Ruth Plumley Thompson continued it, leaving us with a rich set of figures which reach out of our own national heritage and which have, as all great liturature does, reached back and thus formed us. Escape liturature of the highest caliber.
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