The Horn Book Magazine, January 1st, 2001
L. FRANK BAUM's The Wizard of Oz, commemorated in this issue by Michael Patrick Hearn, has more in common with J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series than just a population of assorted fantastic beings. Other assorted beings, no more fantastical than you or I, have worked hard to keep both Harry and Dorothy out of the hands of children: Harry, for fear that he might seduce them into paganism; Dorothy, because not only does she make attractive the virtues of witches et al. but also because she has been accused of bad writing and series-itis.
With his adventures so far clocking in at four volume...
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