5/22/2023 0 Comments Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum![]() ![]() ![]() I also really like Tiktok, but found him hard to perform. Also like Wizard, Baum does a good job of introducing a set of weird characters who make contributions to the story: Billina the Yellow Hen is an utter delight, and surely one of the best Oz characters Baum ever devised, and I had great fun reading her dialogue aloud in a chicken voice. It must have captured my son's attention, because soon he was sitting in a cardboard box on the floor, claiming to be floating in the ocean himself. Like Wonderful Wizard, Ozma of Oz has a great, arresting opening that immediately plunges the reader (or listener) into adventure: Dorothy is on a ship at sea, a wave knocks her overboard, and soon she is adrift, clinging onto a chicken coop. I read this aloud to my toddler, and I think reading something aloud makes you aware of the pacing and the energy of the text. ![]() I feel like Baum got his mojo back here after the stumble that was The Marvelous Land of Oz. ![]()
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