The Road to Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz, L. Frank Baum
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The Road to Oz
A Radio Dramatization

Author: L. Frank Baum, Jerry Robbins

Narrator: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players

Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011

Categories: Fiction, Drama


Synopsis

While guiding a lost traveler, Dorothy gets lost and finds herself on an enchanted road headed yet again to Oz. She meets many new friends and dangers along the way - but can she get to the Emerald City in time for Ozma's birthday party?

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 Jenna on June 19, 2013

I've been reading my way through the Oz books lately in order to fill in some gaps of children's literature I'd missed as a kid. I wasn't too happy with the previous story because it felt like Baum didn't really feel any of it and just wrote Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz because he was pressured by a......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 09, 2014

This, is, quite frankly, the worst of all the Oz books I've read. I got the feeling that, by the end, Baum was bored with writing it and just stopped trying. It starts rather disturbingly in that Dorothy walks away from her farm alone with a stranger called The Shaggy Man who says that he's lost and......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 24, 2010

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally. This review covers all 14 of the Baum Oz books, which is why it's found on all 14 book pages here.) I......more

Goodreads review by TJ on June 14, 2016

So im reading all the Oz books plus the side books but feeling a little sick so review to come when i'm feeling better......more

Goodreads review by Kat on March 20, 2015

OK. It’s obvious what’s going on here. As L. Frank Baum explained in the foreword to one of the OZ books (and I’ve seen such sentiments in some of his other forewords, too): It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and......more