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Marvel News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... by giving the whole series the look of a whimsical storybook come to life, Shanower and Young made Baum's classic seem fresh and new. - Timothy Callahan, ComicBookResources.com"It's an amazing packaging. You have great writing, great art, great colors...and it all captures the beauty and essence of Oz. If you read the previous series, there's no question whether or not you should pick up...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
How little you have to do to get into the feature well of a slick magazine these days. Thomas Mallon's takedown of Ayn Rand in The New Yorker is not online, but it is so phoned-in and lacking in protein that even this synopsis of the article feels padded. There's 1943-vintage prissy caviling about Rand's writing style. ("It is, in fact, badly executed on every level of language, plot, and characterization.")...
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Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... BY LEWIS CARROLL + THE RED BALLOON BY ALBERT LAMORISSE MANNY- THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ BY FRANK BAUM DEVIN-PATRICK BY QUENTIN BLAKE DEVRI- FERDINAND BY MUNRO LEAF, LILY'S CROSSING BY PATRICIA REILLY GIFF, + MILLIONS OF CATS BY WANDA GAG RUTH- HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON BY CROCKETT JOHNSON + CURIOUS GEORGE BY HA REY FAWN- ALICE IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT...
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... and interviews. Based on a 1900 children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, The Wizard Of Oz received five Academy Award nominations on release. It won the Oscar for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and also gained a special award for Outstanding Juvenile Performance by a 4’11”, 16-year-old girl who quickly earned her reputation as “the...
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Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Smokestack Theater group of Community High School is kicking off its first year in a new building in a huge way. L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz" will be held Friday and Saturday night...
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ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Media Release -- Marvel is proud to present your first look behind the scenes of The Marvelous Land of Oz #1 (on-sale tomorrow), the hotly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times best-selling The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in an all-new free sketchbook RIGHT HERE . Courtesy of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, get an in-depth look at L. Frank Baum's masterpiece as the critically acclaimed...
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Comics-and-More (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Here are the highlights of book available in comic stores tomorrow! . Pick of the Week . The Marvelous Land of Oz #1 (of 8) - I really enjoyed Eric Shanower and Skottie Young's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic children's book, so I'm really excited that the two are continuing on with the second book in the Oz series (and my personal favorite) with some...
