Return to Oz

When I wrote about The Wizard of Oz, the film, the comments - which were all much more interesting and coherent than the original post - were so persuasive about reading the book that I sorted through the piles of the Great Unread and found it - a nice little hardback edition "not to be sold separately from the Daily Mail", which I bought in a charity shop for 25p. Separately from the Daily Mail. And I read it - on the train to and from the wine tasting the other evening - and was surprised, among other things, at how short a book it was. A children's classic, first published in 1900, had me anticipating something longer, weightier.

( ...the modern child seeks only entertainment )