Can’t get enough Oz? Neither can we! Here are four tales that take you back down the yellow brick road with your favorite characters. All of these titles are available at our location.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.”
The first of four books, Gregory Maguire tells us the Wicked Witch’s, side of the story. Elphaba is green, quick witted, and rough around the edges. Often misunderstood, she challenges what it means to be good or evil.
Tin Man by Justin Madson
“One of my pa…friends… isn’t doing very well.” “…Is your friend dying?” ‘…Yes honey, he is.”
In his debut, young adult graphic novel, Justin Madson crafts a story around a tin woodsman, created to cut down trees but wishes for nothing more than a heart and Solar, a senior in High School grieving the death of her grandmother.
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
“Magic isn’t things materializing out of nowhere, Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime.”
Elizabeth Lett’s novel tells the story behind L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the perspective of his fearless, bold wife, Maud.
After Oz by Gordon McAlpine
Gordon McAlpine weaves a murder mystery, placed after the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. An old krone turns up dead after a young Dorothy is found after a tornado destroys the Gale family farm. Her vivid recollection of Oz has townsfolk convinced Dorothy is connected to the woman’s death.
