The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Our lunchtime read aloud right now is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. For those who are wondering, it's a complete coincidence that we are reading this right at the same time the Wicked movie is coming out!

I'm not recommending the movie (or the musical) by sharing this book with the children.

Actually, it's because I purchased some wonderful 1992 blank notecards for our Thursday Letter Writing and thought the children would enjoy hearing the book before we cracked them open to see the artwork on the cards. They are new old stock (NOS) which means that they are brand new even though they are vintage!

I do love the Oz books and have all fourteen, if a child wants to continue reading the series after we finish the first one. I may also show them one of the silent movies at one point, because none of my students have ever seen a silent film. I think they would be astonished!

(There are actually several silent films from the world of Oz. Turns out that the Oz Film Manufacturing Company -- founded by L. Frank Baum and making silent movies he wrote and produced -- was an independent film studio from 1914 to 1915. It made only a few pictures before it was absorbed by Metro Pictures, which later evolved into Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.)

For the silent movie links, see my previous post Silent Movies.

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