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A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz. Following the yellow brick road, she joins a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion on a journey to ask the Wizard for help getting home.
From the opening pages: “Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable…”
