When Ozma asks the Nome King to release the Royal Family of Ev, he proposes a guessing game that seems easy enough to win. Ozma and her followers agree to play. But as the Oz people begin to disappear, Dorothy realizes that the Nome King has stacked the deck against them. She and her friends have little hope of escaping the Nome King's sinister underground palace. Loved by both critics and fans, Ozma of Oz triumphs as another wonderful Frank L. Baum adaptation!
I've often mourned the fact that Young works almost entirely on all-ages books these days as it leaves me reading his work less frequently than I'd like. However, seeing what he's doing here, you can't really blame him for the choice, as he's clearly enjoying every minute of it. There's a freedom and excitement in his work on the Oz books that's thoroughly contagious in its wonderment. Read Full Review
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