num_pages: 171
description: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title―offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Wizard of Oz includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.In a terrifying instant of darkness, a tornado snatches up Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto, whirling them on the wild wind out of Kansas and straight to Oz.In this wondrous world of sorcery and danger, Munchkins, flying monkeys, talking mice and fighting trees, all Dorothy wants to do is go home...Together with the Scarecrow who wants a brain, the Tin Man who wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion who wants courage, Dorothy and Toto must follow the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard of the Emerald City. But before the wizard of Oz will grant their wishes, Dorothy and her friends must do the impossible--Destroy the all-powerful Wicked Witch of the West....
language: English
title: The Wizard of Oz
titlecomplete: The Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
characters: Guardian of the Gates, Glinda, Scarecrow, Gayelette, Winkies, Wicked Witch of the East, Stork, Winged Monkeys, Quelala, Toto, Uncle Henry, Munchkins, Good Witch of the North, Queen of the Field Mice, Omby Amby, Jellia Jamb, Wicked Witch of the West, Boq, Kalidahs, Tin Woodman, Dorothy Gale, Hammer-Heads, Wizard of Oz, Cowardly Lion, Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Wi
genres: Fiction, Classics, Magic, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Literature, Adventure, Audiobook
ratings_count: 441042
places: Oz, Kansas
series: Oz
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Tor Classics