The Road to Oz
Some roads lead somewhere. The road to Oz leads everywhere a child could wish to go. In this fifth installment of L. Frank Baum's beloved series, Dorothy Gale finds herself once again whisked away from Kansas, this time joining forces with the Shaggy Man, the mischievous Button Bright, and Polychrome, daughter of the Rainbow, on an enchanted journey to the Marvelous Land of Oz. Their path winds through peculiar kingdoms and strange encounters, each step revealing new wonders and gentle dangers. What begins as a simple quest becomes a meditation on the joy of being lost, the strange magic of companionship, and the kindness that transforms strangers into family. Baum writes with the confident warmth of a storyteller who knows that children deserve a world where the impossible is simply another Tuesday, where rainbows have daughters, and where the road home is always worth finding.
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“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer””
— L. Frank Baum
“In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.””
— L. Frank Baum
“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.””
— L. Frank Baum
“...The more stupid one is the more he thinks he knows.””
— L. Frank Baum
“The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.””
— L. Frank Baum
“I've learned from long experience that every road leads somewhere, or there wouldn't be any road; so it's likely that if we travel long enough, my dear, we will come to some place or another in the end. What place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out when we get there.””
— L. Frank Baum
“Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.””
— L. Frank Baum
“He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.””
— L. Frank Baum
“Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.””
— L. Frank Baum
