The second and third and (sometimes, depending on the book), fourth and fifth times, I read them to myself. The first time was with my Mom, who thankfully got the whole series for my sister and me when we were kids and read them to us at bedtime. I’ve read all of these books at least three times. Reading the Oz books out loud to a child is one of life’s very greatest pleasures, trust me. Do it! You won’t be sorry! Get them for that special kid in your life and read them out loud.

You’ll need to special order them, get them online, or find them as e-books. They aren’t hard to find, luckily, since intelligent publishers keep bringing them back every few years, but there’s a good chance your local bookstores won’t have them. I’m talking about the Wizard of Oz series, published by Frank Baum between 19. They were books first! Not just one book, but fourteen of them! In their day, they caused every bit as much excitement on their publication as the Harry Potter books did a few years ago.

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