Review: Introduction to the Original Land of Oz
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
This book is based upon "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.  If you are looking for a book similar to the movie with Judy Garland, this is not it.The story follows Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on their trip to find a way home, brains, a heart, and courage respectively.  This is an abridged version to introduce a very young audience.If you have an older child, I would recommend getting the originals.However if you have preschoolers and wish to introduce the story this is O.K.As far as the format of this book, on my 17" PC screen,  using Kindle app, the illustration covers the top half of a portrait oriented page, the words are embedded in the picture and therefore cannot be enlarged.  Even on my screen the font size was on the smallish size, I would think on anything smaller it would be very difficult to read. On the Cloud Reader the picture and font sizes were better.  They illustration took up almost 2/3 of the screen.The cover illustration is a good example of the type you will find in the book. It is not my favorite style as everything looks slick, with faces ending up looking very similar.  Some pages had a minor cut and paste feel for the repetitive items, but not as bad as in other books.The sentence to illustration ratio is around 5:1, which is a little high for preschoolers, but is not out of the typical attention span.I can recommend this book for preschoolers.