Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The backyard idea came from the writers at MGM. In the book when she goes to Oz its real. She does not hit her head and dream the whole thing in color only to come back to her black and white life in Kansas when she wakes up. She ends up moving there. Also in the book she's 11. There were several books afterwards most of which my Dad read after dinner at the table during desert in the 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books In the book Dorothy is an orphan. The Munchkins were not midgets or dwarfs, just smaller than regular adults. In other words actors. And more importantly: The Wicked Witch of the East had Silver Shoes, not Ruby Slippers. I just noticed yesterday at At Barnes and Noble the book is put in in the cheap Barnes and noble published classes right next to Jane Austen and the Count of Monte Cristo. -- Mark R. Mark, My mother read the OZ book to my brother and me when we were growing up, I have the collection unfortunately not first editions and not in very good condition. However it does contain all 14 of the L. Frank Baum editions as well as several written after is passing. Interestingly enough the movie "Return to OZ" which the critics hated is closer to the original books that the 1939 film. Neal