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While exploring a blog, Cabinet of Wonders, I found Baum's Ozma of Oz included in a discussion.  When I was very young Gramma had several of this series of books and Ozma was my favorite.  In fact I read it again just last year.  I totally relate to Henrietta in this story.

"L. Frank Baum was brilliant at coming up with whole strings of wonderful ideas that captured children's imaginations, and it really didn't matter whether his books were exciting or the characters compelling: they were stimulating to the imagination."

I'm still beguiled by fantasy (Mercedes Lackey), science fiction (Robert Heinlein and Marion Zimmer Bradley) and time travel adventures (Diana Gabaldon). 

I think I want to find a couple copies of Ozma so I can give them to the two little kids in the neighborhood.  Just this afternoon Sydney, age 2, was showing me the book she'd brought home from the library.  Gotta encourage this!

Comments

[elasait.livejournal.com]

It ought to be findable--a lot of old kids' classics are going through a bit of a renaissance as parents share what they remember with their kids.

I LOVED the Oz books as a kid--our school library had most of them and I checked them all out eventually--some more than once. Book-length "fairy tales" (I didn't know the word fantasy as applied to a genre back then) were some of my favorites. (Still are!)

[baronnemelisend.livejournal.com]

I loved the Oz books. I actually didn't have the Wizard, but I had Ozma of Oz, the Patchworkgirl of Oz, the TinMan of Oz, and a bunch of others--wierd and wonderful, with haunting illustrations. And Dorothy Gale was always so much more of a spitfire than we now think in popular culture1