Chris Bozik- The Wizard of Oz

For my summer reading i chose the Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. My initial reasoning for choosing this book (Like many others) was because growing up The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies. My reasoning did delve a little deeper then that though. At its time of release the movie version was a ground breaking achievement and a story that awed movie goers with its initial sequence in black and white into color when Dorothy enters the land of Oz. I felt it would be interesting to read the original story to find the differences the book had from the movie as all book to movie adaptions have. Not to my surprise the book had a different feel then the movie. The book seems to be a little darker and also provides expanded background information on the main characters. From what I've read I almost prefer the book because it gives you the feeling of being more immersed in the land of Oz.