Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

My grandson & I just finished the second Oz Book. Although it was enjoyaable it was not as good as the other two we have read. It was, however, good enough to keep my young audience eager for the next tale, which we will begin tomorrow. I simply love reading these to him. They are a happy, if not awkward linguistically, novels.

Reading this you can really tell that Baum was pressured into writing the wizard of Oz sequel. This is nowhere near as good, the characters are poor, they are friends but bicker and fight all the time. In the story there was one really good scene and that's when the Gump crashes into the Hacksaw's nest, you got a glimpse of what the story could have been. The ending and identity of Ozma was really creepy, very odd stuff.

Never mind though, my daughter enjoyed in and it has been nice to move past the first book.