The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
A Radio Dramatization

Author: L. Frank Baum, Jerry Robbins

Narrator: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players

Unabridged: 2 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2011

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

Tip, a young Gillikin boy, runs away from his cruel guardian, the wicked witch Mombi. He meets up with the Scarecrow, now ruler of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman, many new friends, and an army of girls who want to overthrow the Scarecrow. Before it's over, Tip finds out that he is part of a dark secret from Oz's past.

About Jerry Robbins

Jerry Robbins, co-founder of the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air has written and produced over 350 radio plays, including Ticonderoga, Captain Blood, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, Treasure Island, Yankee Clipper, Powder River, and Little Big Horn. In 2006 he started a collaboration with legendary author Ray Bradbury, producing Dandelion Wine, followed by Something Wicked This Way Comes, and wrote the script for, and produced The Halloween Tree; all award winning productions that garnered high praise from the master himself. He is currently working on a fourth collaboration with Mr. Bradbury, a radio dramatization of The Martian Chronicles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on April 01, 2017

Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. In the northern Land of Oz, there lived a boy called Tip who was reared by a haggard old woman named Mombi. One day, Tip got the idea to startle Mombi, so he took a large pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, carved a......more

Goodreads review by Marley on September 14, 2016

So. Much. Weirder. Both than your memory of this stuff, and even than the first Oz book. You've got the Scarecrow set up, "brains" and all having gone to his head, as King Fool of Emerald City, you've got an antifeminist caricature (not that i mind it when it's so transparent, even for a kid in this......more

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on January 25, 2016

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths. Like many people my age, I actually remember when The Wizard of Oz movie being shown on network television every year was an event. I mean, we didn’t have VCRs (Let alone Netflix) back in the dark ages, so if you wanted to get a glimpse of Oz, you had to plan your......more

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