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Posted by Ruth
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Animals, Good Read Aloud, L. Frank Baum, Oz
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Rinkitink, the fat and jolly king, along with Bilbil, his grouchy goat, arrive at the peaceful island of Pingaree where vast quantities of pearls are harvested every year. During their visit, Pingaree is attacked by warriors from the islands of Regos and Coregos who carry off the entire inhabitants of the island. Only Rinkitink, Bilbil and Prince Inga escape. They set off together to rescue the prince’s people, aided by three magic pearls: a pink pearl that will protect its owner from all dangers, a blue pearl that will give to the person who carries it a strength so great that no power can resist him, and a pure white pearl, which can speak, and its words are always wise and helpful. Their quest leads them across the Nonestic Ocean to the islands of Regos and Coregos and, eventually, to the dark underground domains of the Nome King himself, where Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz arrive just in time.
I hadn’t read the Oz books in quite some time, so going back through and re-reading them was a delight. They’re written in a style that people of all ages can enjoy and love. Rinkitink is always laughing and the three magic pearls add an exciting twist to a wonderful story. Rinkitink in Oz was and is one of my favorites.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Cats, Chickens, Dragons, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Horses, L. Frank Baum, Oz
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Dorothy, her cat Eureka, a horse named Jim and Dorothy’s cousin Zeb are caught in an earthquake and fall into the depths of the earth. They find themselves in a strange country, where the people are vegetables. While the vegetable people are deciding what to do with them, Dorothy’s old friend, the Wizard of Oz, falls from the sky in his balloon. He joins them in an attempt to escape the vegetable people and get back to the surface of the earth. But they may have to journey to Oz.
I didn’t like this one quite as much. It’s only the fourth in the series, and as you read through the whole series, it gets a little better. About two thirds of this book is about the journey to Oz, and the rest is about what they do when they get there. It’s a fun story, but I enjoyed the fifth book The Road to Oz a lot better.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Dogs, Funny, Norton Juster
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Milo hates to do anything. Wherever he is, he is always wishing to be somewhere else. Then one day, he finds a box with a tollbooth inside. He gets out his toy car that he can ride in and drives through, deposits his coins and picks a spot on the map at random. Milo is not in his room anymore, but in the city of Dictionopolis, where words are in high esteem. Joined by Tok, the Watchdog whose watch only says “tik”; and the Humbug, a giant insect, he sets out on a quest to rescue the princesses Reason and Rhyme from their captors in Mountains of Ignorance.
I love this book. The story is witty and humorous. Word plays abound, which makes it hard to read aloud, but all in all, a great story.
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Dogs, Donkeys, Good Read Aloud, L. Frank Baum, Oz
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When a shaggy man asks Dorothy the way to Butterfield, she walks with him and shows him the way. But then she finds she’s lost, as there suddenly are about seventeen roads leading from the place she and the shaggy man are. Dorothy, Toto, and the shaggy man take a road and eventually meet Pollychrome, the Rainbow’s daughter and Button-Bright. The five set out to get to Oz and celebrate Ozma’s birthday.
The first Oz book with the shaggy man. At Ozma’s birthday, there are many different characters, including Queen Zixi of Ix, King Bud and Princess Fluff, the Queen of Ev and her children. This is probably not one of my favorites, but it’s still a good book.
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Animals, Bears, Cats, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Unicorns
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On Mount Munch, Kiki Aru has discovered his father’s magical secret word: Pyrzqxgl, which will transform him or anyone else he wishes to change to a different form. He turns himself into a hawk and flies over the Deadly Desert, away from Oz, and after spending a day in Ix, turns himself back again in the Land of Ev. There he joins with the Nome King and the two stir up trouble in the Forest of Gugu against Ozma and the land of Oz.
This is probably one of my favorite Oz books! Please read this one!
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