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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite book, August 14, 1999

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This review is from: The Magical Monarch of Mo (Dover Children's Classics) (Paperback)

I am five years old and my grandma read me this book because she loved it when she was a little girl. It is my favouite book too because I love the names and the magic and the pictures.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a classic, October 22, 1999

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This review is from: The Magical Monarch of Mo (Dover Children's Classics) (Paperback)

This was one of my favorite books as a child and having recently reread it, I must say it works on an adult level as well. It's very imaginative and funny and shows what Baum could do when he let his imagination run away with him. I think it's better than any of the Oz books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Dover pbk edition with color plates, January 1, 2002

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This review is from: The Magical Monarch of Mo (Dover Children's Classics) (Paperback)

Dover edition does have color plates, in fact "all 15 of the full-page color plates and all of the more than 100 line drawings prepared by Frank Ver Beck for the first two editions [1900 and 1903]." This is a collection of 14 "surprises." But Mo, the land where these stories all take place, is like Oz in many ways. It is a land of enchantment where marvelous tings hapen, where people do not die, and where animals can talk. The landscape of Mo abounds in things children love to ear, and everything anyone wants grows from its trees. It was published (as A New Wonderland) the same year as the original Wizard of Oz.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A delghtful fantasy for children
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) became very famous a loved for his later books on Dorthy and Oz. This book written in 1903, and still delightful today, contains fourteen tales. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Israel Drazin

4.0 out of 5 stars Tales of Innocence and Delightful Nonsense
Before we became familiar with a flying squirrel's adventures with a moronic moose, a wiseacre rabbit and his ill-tempered duck friend, and the comic tales of a talking mouse who... Read more

Published on November 28, 2009 by Andre M.

4.0 out of 5 stars An Amusing Collection of Short Stories by the Creator of OZ
The 1899 publication of A NEW WONDERLAND was almost immediately routed by the 1900 publication of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ--and so L. Read more

Published on July 18, 2008 by Gary F. Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful memories
These stories are delightful in their quirky, darkly adventurous meanderings. A root beer river, a topsy turvy land where people live upside down, a king who loses his head and a... Read more

Published on May 27, 2008 by sadie lane

2.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, terrible edition
First off, let me say that I love the stories in this book; I read it for the first time many years ago. Read more

Published on November 8, 2007 by Baum Girl

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply fun ... especially fun to read aloud
After having read Sea Fairies. Queen Zixi and Sky Island (all aloud to my 8-year old daughter) I was at first disappointed that this was a collection of often silly - and punny -... Read more

Published on February 4, 2007 by Stuart B. Baum

3.0 out of 5 stars Second Tier Short Stories
This is one of L. Frank Baum's earliest works. It's writing predate that of the WIZARD OF OZ but it was published the same year. Read more

Published on March 9, 2006 by John A Lee III

2.0 out of 5 stars The Amereon Edition is not worth the money I paid for it.
The printing in the Amereon Edition of this book is poor. The pages look like faded xerox copies. This book contains no color plates, no dust jacket and is small in size. Read more

Published on March 29, 2001 by Frank Mele

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best book ever
I love this book it is far better than the wizard of oz It's the best fantasy ever

Published on July 3, 1999 by ccooper@jhsph.edu

5.0 out of 5 stars More interesting to children than the " Wizard of Oz"
This book was always at our home having been given to my mother by her mother in 1911 when my mom was 12 yrs old. Read more

Published on December 2, 1998

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
purple dragon, wicked wizard, yellow hen, baby elephant, little red box

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prince Zingle, Cast Iron Man, Wise Men, Prince Thinkabit, Princess Pattycake, Wise Donkey, Rootbeer River, Prince Jollikin, River of Needles, Great Hole, Sly Fox, Wise Man, Crystal Lake, King Scowleyow, Prince Fiddlecumdoo, Magical Monarch, The Red Rooster, Princess Truella, Beautiful Valley, Ruby Casket

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