Bookn' with Friends: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum

WPL's Bookn' with Friends book club will meet to discuss L. Frank Baum's classic children's tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Monday, November 25 at 6:30pm.

Selected to meet the 2024 Reading Challenge "a book written before you were born," The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900. The book has since had an unmistakable influence on American culture, inspiring countless adaptations and reinterpretations - the 1939 movie, 1974's The Wiz, and Gregory Maguire's Wicked, to name just a few.

From the publisher:

Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.

Related programs:

The Wizard Behind Oz a Humanities Kansas presentation by Chris Glasgow on Saturday, November 2 at 10:30am

Book discussion:  "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire on Monday, Dec 2 at 6:30pm