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The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum单词提示1.scarecrow 稻草人2.pole 杆子3.straw 稻草4.tin 包白铁5.coward 胆小鬼原文Chapter Two: The Yellow Brick Road Dorothy and Toto walked along the yellow brick road for a long time.When they were tired, they stopped in a field by the road.Not far away, there was a scarecrow, and Dorothy and Toto walked across to look at it.'Good day,' said the Scarecrow.'Oh!'said Dorothy. 'You can speak!''Of course I can speak,' said the Scarecrow, 'But I can't move, up here on this pole. I'd like to get down, can you help me?'Carefully,Dorothy took the Scarecrow off his pole.'Thank you very much,' said the Scarecrow.He moved his arms and legs, and straw went everywhere.'Who are you?', he asked, 'And where are you going? ''I'm Dorothy, and I'm going to the Emerald City. I want to go home to Kansas, but I don't know the way. I'm going to ask the Wizard of Oz for help. ''Where is the Emerald City?', asked the Scarecrow, 'And who is the Wizard of Oz? I don't know anything, you see, because I have no brains in my head— only straw.''Oh dear!', said Dorothy, 'I'm very sorry.''I would very much like to have some brains,' the Scarecrow said, 'Can I go to the Emerald City with you? Perhaps the Wizard of Oz can give me some brains. What do you think?''I don't know,' said Dorothy, 'But yes, please come with me. He's a famous wizard,so perhaps he can help you.'She felt very sorry for the Scarecrow.'Don't be afraid of Toto,' she said, 'He never hurts people.''Nothing can hurt me,' said the Scarecrow, 'I'm not afraid of anything. Well, that's not true. I am afraid of fire, of course.'Dorothy walked along the road with her new friend.Soon she began to feel hungry, so she sat down and she and Toto ate some bread and apples.'Would you like some, Scarecrow?' said Dorothy.'No,thank you,' said the Scarecrow.'I don't need to eat or drink. You can't eat when you're made of straw...Now, tell me about your home. 'So Dorothy told him about Kansas, and Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, and the cyclone.'But why do you want to leave this beautiful country?' asked the Scarecrow, 'Kansas,you say, has no trees, no green hills, no gardens. I don't understand.''That's because you have no brains,' said Dorothy, 'Kansas is my home. We say, “East,west, home's best”, and it's true. I want to go home.'They walked along the road for some hours, and then it got dark.Dorothy was tired, and soon the Scarecrow saw a little house behind some trees.There was nobody there, so they went in.Dorothy and Toto slept, but the Scarecrow just stood all night with his eyes open.'Scarecrows don't sleep,' he said.In the morning, Dorothy looked for water.'Why do you want water?' asked the Scarecrow.'Toto and I are thirsty. And I need to wash.''I'm sorry for you,' said the Scarecrow, 'You need a lot of things! But you have brains, and you can think, and that's wonderful.'They found some water, and Dorothy washed.Then she and Toto ate some bread.Suddenly,they heard a shout from the trees near the house, and they all ran out of the house to look.They saw a man by a big tree, with an axe in his hand.He was made of tin.He stood very still and shouted 'Help!' again and again.'What can I do for you?' asked Dorothy.'I can't move,' said the Tin Man, 'Please oil me. There's an oil-can in my house.'At once, Dorothy ran back to the house and found the oil-can.Then she came back, and with the Scarecrow's help, she carefully oiled the Tin Man.Slowly,he began to move, first his head, and then his arms and legs.'Thank you,' he said. 'I feel better now.'He put down his axe.'I went out in the rain, you see, and water is very bad for a tin body. I was there for a long time, and nobody came to help me.''We stopped at your house for the night,' Dorothy said, 'and we heard your shout this morning.''Where are you going?' asked the Tin Man.So Dorothy told him about the Wizard of Oz.'I want to go back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants some brains,' she said.The Tin Man was very interested.'Can the Wizard give me a heart, do you think? I have no heart, so I can't love, or feel... I would very much like to have a heart.''Come with us,' said the Scarecrow.'Yes,' said Dorothy, 'And then you can ask the Wizard for help, too.'So they all walked along the yellow brick road.There were many tall trees next to the road, and sometimes the three friends heard noises from animals behind the trees.Dorothy did not like these noises very much.'How far is it to the Emerald City?' she asked the Tin Man, 'Do you know?''It's a long way, I think,' said the Tin Man, 'And we must be careful because—'But just then, a big lion suddenly ran out from the trees, into the road.It opened its mouth— it had long yellow teeth— and began to run after Toto.Dorothy was afraid for Toto.She ran up to the lion and hit it on the nose with her bag.'Don't hurt my dog!' she cried angrily, 'He's smaller than you!''I didn't hurt him,' said the Lion, 'Don't hit me again— please!''Why—you're afraid!' said Dorothy, 'Be quiet,Toto, he isn't going to hurt you. He's more afraid than you are. He's just a big coward.''It's true,' said the Lion, 'I am a coward.Everyone thinks lions are brave. I make a lot of noise, but I'm not brave. I'm just a coward.'And the Cowardly Lion began to cry.Then Dorothy told him about the Wizard of Oz.'Come with us to the Emerald City,' she said, 'I want to go back to Kansas, the Scarecrow wants some brains, and the Tin Man wants a heart. Perhaps the Wizard of Oz can make you brave.''Oh,thank you!' said the Lion, 'I would very much like to be brave.'And so the Cowardly Lion came with them.At first, Toto was afraid of him, but very soon he and the Lion were good friends.That night, Dorothy and Toto slept under a big tree, next to the Cowardly Lion's big warm body.In the morning, they ate the last of their bread.'Oh dear!' said Dorothy, 'What are we going to eat for dinner?''I can kill an animal for you,' said the Cowardly Lion.'Oh no— please don't kill anything!' the Tin Man said.He began to cry, 'We don't want to hurt any animals. I haven't got a heart, but Ifeel sorry for them.'Dorothy quickly got out the oil-can and oiled his face.'Don't cry,' she said, 'You know water is bad for you.'They walked along the yellow road, and after an hour or two, they came to a big river.'Oh no!' said Dorothy, 'How can we get across?'The Lion looked down at the river.'I'm very afraid of falling,' he said, 'but I think I can jump across.''Good!'said the Scarecrow at once, 'You can carry us on your back, one at a time.'So the Cowardly Lion jumped across the river, first with the Scarecrow on his back, then with Dorothy and Toto, and last with the Tin Man.But soon they came to a second river.This one was very big, and the Lion could not jump across it.The Scarecrow thought for a minute.'Look,'he said, 'There's a tall tree next to the river. The Tin Man can cut it down with his axe. And when the tree falls across the river, we can walk across the tree.''Very good,' said the Lion, 'For somebody with straw in their head, and not brains.'So the Tin Man cut down the tree with his axe, and soon they were all across that river, too.翻译第二章：黄砖路多萝西和托托沿着黄色的砖路走了很长一段距离。当他们感到疲惫时，便在路边的一片田野里停下来休息。不远处有一个稻草人，多萝西和托托走过去去看他。“你好啊，”稻草人说道。“哦！”多萝西说道，“你居然能说话啊！”“当然我能说话，”稻草人说道，“但我在这根杆子上动不了了。我想下来，你能帮我吗？”多萝西小心翼翼地把稻草人从杆子上取了下来。“非常感谢你，”稻草人说道。他动了动自己的胳膊和腿，稻草四处乱飞。“你是谁？”他问道，“你要去哪里？”“我是多萝西，我要去翡翠城。我想回堪萨斯老家，但我不知道路。我要去向奥兹巫师求助。”“翡翠城在哪里？”稻草人问道，“奥兹巫师是谁？你知道的，因为我脑袋里没有脑子——只有稻草。”“哎呀！”多萝西说道，“我很抱歉。”“我非常希望能有一些脑子，”稻草人说道，“我能和你一起去翡翠城吗？也许奥兹巫师能给我一些脑子。你觉得怎么样？”“我不知道，”多萝西说道，“不过，好吧，请跟我来吧。他可是个著名的巫师，或许他能帮到你。”她为稻草人感到非常难过。“别害怕托托，”她说，“他从不伤害人。”“没有什么能伤害到我，”稻草人说道，“我什么都不怕。嗯，这不完全是真的。我当然害怕火。”多萝西和她的新朋友一起沿着道路前行。很快她就开始感到饿了，于是她坐了下来，和托托一起吃了些面包和苹果。“稻草人，你想吃点吗？”多萝西说道。“不用了，谢谢，”稻草人说道。“我不需要吃或者喝。当你是稻草做成的时候，是不能吃东西的……现在，告诉我一些关于你家乡的事”多萝西向他讲述了她的家乡——堪萨斯州，还有亨利叔叔和埃姆婶婶，以及那场龙卷风。“可你为什么要离开这个美丽的国度呢？”稻草人问道，“你说的堪萨斯没有树木、没有绿色的山丘、没有花园。我不明白。”“那是因为你没有头脑，”多萝西说道，“堪萨斯是我的家乡。我们常说‘无论东西，家才是最好的'，这是真的。我想回家。”他们沿着道路走了几个小时，然后天色暗了下来。多萝西累了，很快稻草人看到一些树后面有一座小房子。那里没有人，于是他们走了进去。多萝西和托托睡着了，但稻草人整晚都睁着眼睛站着。“稻草人是不会睡觉的。”他说。早上，多萝西去找水。“你为什么需要水？”稻草人问道。“我和托托都渴了。而且我还需要洗一洗。”“我很为你感到难过。”稻草人说。“你需要很多东西！但你有头脑，能思考，这真是太好了。”他们找到了一些水，多萝西洗了洗。然后她和托托吃了些面包。突然，他们听到房子附近树林里传来一声喊叫，于是他们都跑出房子去看。他们看到一个男人站在一棵大树旁，手里拿着一把斧子。他是用锡做成的。他一动不动地站着，一遍又一遍地喊着“救命！”“我能为你做些什么？”多萝西问道。“我动不了了。”铁皮人说，“请给我抹点油。我家里有个油罐。”立刻，多萝西跑回房子，找到了那个油罐。然后她回来了，在稻草人的帮助下，她小心翼翼地给铁皮人抹上了油。慢慢地，他开始动了，先是他的头，然后是他的胳膊和腿。“谢谢你。”他说。“现在我感觉好多了。”他放下斧子。“我是在雨中出去的，你知道的，而雨水对铁质的身体来说可是非常有害的。我在那里待了很长时间，却没有人来帮我。”“我们昨晚就在你家过夜的，”多萝西说，“今天早上我们听到你发出了呼救声。”“你要去哪里？”“铁皮人问道。于是多萝西便向他讲述了奥兹巫师的事。“我想回堪萨斯州去，而稻草人想要一些头脑，”她说。铁皮人非常感兴趣。“你觉得巫师能给我一颗心吗？我没有心，所以无法爱，也无法感受……我非常渴望拥有一颗心。”“跟我们走吧，”稻草人说。“好啊，”多萝西说，“然后你们也能向巫师寻求帮助。”于是他们一起沿着黄色的砖路前行。路旁有许多高大的树木，有时这三位朋友会听到树后动物发出的声音。多萝西不太喜欢这些声音。“去翡翠城还有多远？”她问铁皮人，“你知道吗？”“我觉得很远，”铁皮人说，“而且我们必须小心，因为——”但就在这时，一只大狮子突然从树丛中冲了出来，跑到了路上。它张开嘴巴——它有着长长的黄色牙齿——然后开始追赶托托。多萝西为托托感到害怕。她跑到狮子面前，用她的包打它的鼻子。“别伤害我的狗！”她生气地喊道，“它比你小多了！”“我没有伤害它，”狮子说，“别再打了——求求你了！”“为什么——你害怕了！”多萝西说道，“安静点，托托，他不会伤害你的。他比你还要害怕。他只不过是个胆小鬼罢了。”“确实如此，”狮子说道，“我就是个胆小鬼。大家都认为狮子很勇敢。我总是大声吼叫，但我其实并不勇敢。我只是个胆小鬼罢了。”于是，胆小的狮子开始哭泣起来。接着，多萝西向他讲述了奥兹巫师的事。“跟我们一起去翡翠城吧，”她说，“我想回堪萨斯州去，稻草人需要一些头脑，铁皮人需要一颗心。也许奥兹巫师能让你变得勇敢。”“哦，谢谢你！”狮子说道，“我非常希望能变得勇敢。”于是，胆小的狮子就跟他们一起去了。起初，托托害怕他，但很快他就和狮子成了好朋友。那天晚上，多萝西和托托睡在一棵大树下，紧挨着胆小的狮子那温暖的大身躯。第二天早上，他们吃完了最后一点面包。“哎呀！”多萝西说道，“晚餐吃什么呀？”“我可以为你杀一只动物。”胆小的狮子说道。“哦，不——请别杀任何动物！”铁皮人说道。他开始哭泣，“我们不想伤害任何动物。我并没有心脏，但我还是为他们感到难过。”多萝西迅速拿出油罐，给他的脸抹上油。“别哭了，”她说，“你知道水对你是有害的。”他们沿着黄色的道路前行，过了一个小时左右，他们来到了一条大河旁。“哦，不！”多萝西说道，“我们怎么才能过河呢？”狮子低头看着这条河。“我非常害怕掉下去，”他说，“但我认为我能跳过去。”“好啊！”稻草人立刻说道，“你可以背着我们，一次一个。”于是，胆小的狮子先跳过了河，背上是稻草人，接着是多萝西和托托，最后是铁皮人。但很快他们又来到了第二条河旁。这条河非常大，狮子无法跳过去。稻草人思考了一会儿。“看，”他说，“河旁边有一棵高大的树。铁皮人可以用他的斧子把它砍倒。当树横在河上时，我们就可以从树上走过去。”“很好，”狮子说道，“对于脑袋里只有稻草而没有头脑的人来说，这真是个好主意。”于是铁皮人用他的斧子砍倒了那棵树，很快他们也都过了那条河。

The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum单词提示1.cyclone 风暴2.cellars 地窖3.trousers 裤子4.witch 女巫5.wizard 巫师6.emerald 翡翠 原文Chapter One: The CycloneDorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and a little black dog called Toto.There were no trees and no hills in Kansas, and it was often very windy.Sometimes the wind came very fast and very suddenly.That was a cyclone, and it could blow trees and people and buildings away.There were cellars under all the houses.And when a cyclone came, people went down into their cellars and stayed there.One day, Uncle Henry came out and looked up at the sky.Then he ran quickly back into the house.'There's a cyclone coming,' he called to Aunt Em and Dorothy, 'We must go down into the cellar!'They ran to the door of the cellar, but Toto was afraid, and he ran under the bed.Dorothy ran after him.'Quick!' shouted Aunt Em from the cellar. 'Leave the dog and come down into the cellar!'Dorothy picked up Toto and ran to the cellar door.But before she got there, the cyclone hit the house.And then a very strange thing happened.The house moved, and then it went slowly up, up, up into the sky.Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were down in the cellar under the ground, but the house,Dorothy, and Toto went up to the top of the cyclone.Dorothy looked through the open cellar door and saw hills and houses, a long way down.She closed the cellar door quickly.The wind blew the house along for many hours.At first, Dorothy was afraid.'But we can't do anything about it,' she said to Toto. 'So let's wait and see.'And after two or three hours, she and Toto went to sleep.When Dorothy opened her eyes again, the house was on the ground and everything was quiet.She picked up Toto, opened the door, and went out.They saw tall trees and beautiful flowers, and little houses with blue doors.Dorothy gave a little cry, 'This isn't Kansas, Toto! And who are these people?'There were three very short men in blue hats, coats and trousers, and a little old woman in a beautiful white dress.The woman walked up to Dorothy and said, 'Thank you, thank you! Now the people are free!''Why are you thanking me?' Dorothy asked.'You killed the Witch of the East,' said the woman, 'She was a bad witch, and her people, the Munchkins, were very afraid of her. Now she is dead, and we and the Munchkins want to thank you.'The little old woman and the three little men all smiled happily at Dorothy, but Dorothy did not understand.'But I didn't kill anybody, ' She said.'Your house fell on the witch,' laughed the little woman, 'Look, you can see her feet.'Dorothy looked and saw two feet with red shoes under the house.Suddenly,one of the Munchkins gave a shout, 'Look, her feet are disappearing in the hot sun.'And a second later, there were only the red shoes.'Good,'said the little woman.She picked up the shoes and gave them to Dorothy, 'they're your shoes now. You must wear them, because a witch's shoes can sometimes do wonderful things.''Thank you,' said Dorothy, 'But who are you? Are you a munchkin?''No,but I'm their friend. I'm the Witch of the North and I came to see the dead witch of the East. But don't be afraid, I am a good witch.''But Aunt Em says there aren't any witches.''Oh yes, there are,' said the witch, 'here in the country of Oz, we have four witches. The witches of the North and the South are good witches, but those of the East and the West are bad witches. Now the Witch of the East is dead. So,there is only one bad witch. We have a famous wizard too, we call him the Wizard of Oz, and he lives in the Emerald city. How many witches and wizards do you have in your country?''We don't have any,' said Dorothy.Suddenly,she remembered Aunt Em and uncle Henry.'How can I get back home to Kansas?', She asked.'Where is Kansas?', asked the good witch, 'I don't know a country called Kansas, so I can't tell you the way.'Dorothy began to cry.'Oh dear, what can I do? Please don't cry,' said the witch.'Go and see the Wizard of Oz. He's a good wizard and perhaps he can help you. It's a long way and you must walk there. I can't go with you, but I can give you my kiss.'She gave Dorothy a little kiss.It looked like a small red flower on Dorothy's face.'Now nothing can hurt you,' she said, 'Look, there is the road to the Emerald city.It is made of yellow bricks, so you cannot lose your way. Good bye.''Goodbye,' said the three little Munchkins.In the house, Dorothy found some bread and some apples, and she put them all in a bag.Then she put on her blue and white dress.'And now I looked nice,' she said.She looked down at her old shoes.Then she remembered the bad witch's red shoes and put them on.She picked up her bag of food.'Come on, Toto.' She called, 'we are going to find the Wizard of Oz. '翻译第一章：旋风多萝西和她的叔叔亨利、阿姨埃姆以及一只名叫托托的小黑狗一起住在堪萨斯州的一座小房子里。堪萨斯州没有树木，也没有山丘，而且经常刮起狂风。有时风会来得非常猛烈且突然。这就是龙卷风，它能将树木、人和建筑物吹走。所有房屋下面都有地窖。当龙卷风来袭时，人们会下到地窖里待在那里。有一天，亨利叔叔走出房子，抬头望着天空。然后他迅速跑回屋里。“有一场龙卷风要来了，”他对埃姆阿姨和多萝西喊道，“我们必须下到地窖里去！”他们跑向地窖的门，但托托很害怕，它跑到了床底下。多萝西追着它跑。“快点！”埃姆阿姨从地窖里喊道。“别管这只狗，赶紧下到地窖里！”多萝西抱着托托跑向地窖门。但在她到达之前，龙卷风袭击了房子。然后发生了一件非常奇怪的事情。房子动了，然后慢慢地向上移动，向上，向上，一直升入天空。埃姆阿姨和亨利叔叔在地下的地窖里，但房子、多萝西和托托升到了龙卷风的顶部。多萝西透过敞开的地下室门向外望去，只见远处山峦起伏，房屋错落有致。她迅速关上了地下室的门。狂风将房子吹着移动了好几个小时。起初，多萝西有些害怕。“但我们对此无能为力，”她对托托说，“所以咱们就等着瞧吧。”过了两三个小时，她和托托就睡着了。当多萝西再次睁开眼睛时，房子已经停在了地上，四周一片寂静。她抱起托托，打开门，走了出去。他们看到了高大的树木、美丽的花朵，还有带有蓝色门的小房子。多萝西轻声叫道：“这不是堪萨斯，托托！这些人又是谁呢？”有三个戴着蓝色帽子、穿着外套和裤子的矮个子男人，还有一个穿着漂亮白裙子的老妇人。这个女人走到多萝西面前说：“谢谢你们，谢谢你们！现在人们自由了！”“你们为什么感谢我？”多萝西问道。“是你杀了东方女巫，”这个女人说，“她是个邪恶的女巫，她的子民——芒奇金人非常惧怕她。现在她死了，我们和芒奇金人都想感谢你。”那个小老太太和那三个矮个子男人都开心地对着多萝西微笑，但多萝西不明白。“可我没有杀人啊。”她说道。“你的房子压死了那个女巫，”那个小妇人笑着说，“看，你能看到她的双脚。”多萝西看了看，发现房子下面有两个穿着红色鞋子的脚。突然，一个芒奇金人喊道：“看，她的双脚在烈日下渐渐消失了。”片刻之后，就只剩下那双红色的鞋子了。“很好，”小妇人说道。她捡起鞋子，递给多萝西，“它们现在是你的鞋子了。你必须穿上它们，因为女巫的鞋子有时能施展神奇的法术。”“谢谢你，”多萝西说道，“可你是谁？你是芒奇金人吗？”“不是，但我却是他们的朋友。我是北方女巫，来这儿是来看那位已经死了的东方女巫的。但不必害怕，我是位好女巫。”“可是艾姆阿姨说这里没有女巫。”“哦，不是的，”女巫说道，“在奥兹这个国家里，我们有四位女巫。北方和南方女巫是好女巫，而东边和西边女巫则是坏女巫。现在东边女巫已经死了。所以现在就只剩下一个坏女巫了。我们还有一个著名的巫师，我们称他为奥兹巫师，他住在翡翠城。你们国家有多少女巫和巫师呢？”“我们没有。”多萝西说道。突然，她想起了埃姆阿姨和亨利叔叔。“我怎么才能回到堪萨斯州呢？”她问道。“堪萨斯州在哪里？”好心的女巫问道，“我不知道有个叫堪萨斯的国家，所以没法告诉你去那儿的路。”多萝西开始哭泣。“哎呀，我能怎么办呢？请别哭了。”女巫说道。“去见奥兹巫师吧。他是个好巫师，也许他能帮到你。路很远，你得走着去那儿。我不能和你一起去，但我可以给你一个吻。”她给了多萝西一个小小的吻。那吻看起来像多萝西脸上的一个小红花。“现在没有什么能伤害到你了。”她说，“看，那是通往翡翠城的路。它是用黄色砖块铺成的，所以你不会迷路的。再见。”“再见。”三个芒奇金人说道。在房子里，多萝西找到了一些面包和一些苹果，她把它们都放进了一个袋子里。然后她穿上了她的蓝白相间的连衣裙。“现在我看起来很漂亮了。”她说。她低头看了看她那双旧鞋子。然后她想起了坏女巫的红色鞋子，穿上了它们。她拿起装着食物的袋子。“来吧，托托。”她喊道，“我们要去找奥兹巫师了。”

Send us a textToday, we open the season with Episode 1 of THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum. The cyclone comes tearing through the plains of Kansas and Dorothy's house in right in it's path. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry get to storm cellar but Dorothy and Toto. Aren't so lucky. To check out more of my work, go to my website at cathicolasaudiobooks.com, or find me on Audible. If you're an author looking to turn your book into an audiobook, email me at cathicolas@gmail.com, let's talk. And if you like the podcast, please leave a review or share it on Social Media. Thanks for listening.

In this special episode of Make Me A Musical, host Jesse McAnally sits down with the powerhouse vocalist and performer Kyla Jade, who's taking on not one, but two iconic roles — Aunt Em and Evillene — in the upcoming production of The Wiz at the Fisher Theatre, running June 17–29, 2025. Buy tickets at BroadwayinDetroit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textTara and EmKay are thrilled to be joined by another Slipperhood guest, Hazel Gaynor, author of the brand new novel "Before Dorothy"! Hazel shares her experience dreaming up a novel centered around Aunt Em's life and backstory before Oz, writing Dorothy's parents, favorite parts about writing Oz, and so much more.Show Notes:Hazel Gaynor@mrscscozycraftsInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: www.emilykayshrader.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtheyellowbrickpodEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/down_the_yellow_brick_podMusic by: Shane ChapmanEdited by: Emily Kay Shrader Down the Yellow Brick Pod: A Wizard of Oz Podcast preserving the history and legacy of Oz

Discussion Opening December 6th and running through December 14th, Take a Bow Community Theatre presents, The Wizard of Oz, a British Pantomime directed by Roxanne McCallum. Kyle sits down, half a world away, with Roxanne to discuss this new adaptation to a work that has seen a lot of adaptations over the years. Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/wizard-of-oz-3/ About the show: Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto are forever getting into trouble on the farm in Kansas. Alongside her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and her three hapless farmhand friends, she dreams of traveling to a place where troubles melt like lemon drops over the rainbow. Her wish is granted courtesy of a terrible twister which takes her far away to the magical land of Oz where the beautiful Dame Glinda sends her off down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. But hot on her ruby heels is the Wicked Witch of the West who is bent on taking over the colourful kingdom. With the help of a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion, will Dorothy have the brains, heart and courage to save all of Oz and find her way home?

Welcome back, listeners! Tara and EmKay continue easing on down the road by welcoming Melody A. Betts and Allyson Kaye Daniel to discuss all things "The Wiz" on Broadway! Melody (Evillene) and Allyson (Addaperle) share their respective theatrical journeys, break down their characters in this revival, shout out favorite design elements, and so much more!Note: This episode was recorded during previews of "The Wiz."Show Notes:@melodybettspage@akayedanielJoli CreatesScenery BagsInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: www.emilykayshrader.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtheyellowbrickpodEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/down_the_yellow_brick_podMusic by: Shane ChapmanEdited by: Emily Kay Shrader

In our first chapter, entitled "The Cyclone," we find ourselves transported to the vast expanse of the great Kansas prairies – a land dominated by the hues of grey, where the elements themselves have bleached the vibrancy from life. It is here on this canvas of simplicity that we meet Dorothy, her small dog Toto, and her guardians, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Their existence, much like their home, is unadorned and as bare as the landscape that cradles them, with joy a stranger in their daily toil.Amidst this backdrop of monochrome, we witness the stirrings of change in the form of a charging storm. It is with a brew of foreboding and anticipation that we peer into the skies with Dorothy and her family as ominous winds circle their modest dwelling. The narrative then sweeps us up, much like the house itself, into the eye of the tumultuous cyclone, launching our young heroine into an adventure that surpasses the wildest of imaginations.

Your Stupid Minds whisks you away to a magical fantasy land based on the L. Frank Baum novels that no one has read in the last 100 years. It's Disney's reimagined 1985 sequel Return to Oz! In an effort to reinvigorate its flailing film releases, Disney bought the rights to the Wizard of Oz book series with the intention of revitalizing the franchise. One small issue though: the books are very dissimilar to MGM's beloved The Wizard of Oz from 1939. No worries, the bones are still there: the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodsman. Oh, they're barely in the sequels? Who are these guys? Gump? Jack Pumpkinhead? Tik-Tok? Also where are the ruby slippers? They're silver? We have to pay MGM royalties to use the ruby ones? Oh dear. Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) won't shut up to Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) about this magical land of Oz where she murdered two witches and saved the Emerald City and all its diminutive residents. So naturally Aunt Em sends her off to a quack psychoanalyst who plans to electroshock this 10-year-old until she stops using her imagination. She escapes the sanitarium and returns to Oz, teaming up with a talking chicken Billina (Denise Bryer), a robotic soldier Tik-Tok (Sean Barrett), Jack Pumpkinhead (Brian Henson) who is, let's face it, just the Scarecrow, and Gump (Stephen Norrington) a talking moose head strapped to a flying couch. Dorothy is determined to save the Scarecrow from the evil Nome King, and must solve a series of puzzles and challenges that were probably more interesting when they were in a children's book. Come along with us on our flying Davenport on this wild adventure!

After a Kansas tornader carries a young girl and her talking dog to the strange land of Oz, they set out to find a wizard coincidentally named Oz to ask if he can help them return home. Along with two friends and an acquaintance, they venture to the West to find and kill an evil witch in return for Oz's help investigating the Munchkin murders, providing landmines, and getting the two travelers back to their home to Kansas.Written by Ean Smith (@marcusdayhooray).      Credits:   Matthew Storino (@StorinoMp) - Narrator, Oz, WinkieFee Basanavicius (@fbasanavicius) - Dorothy, Winkie, Oz's MomLauren Rivas (@larivasnumerouno) - Aunt Em, Toto, Doorman, Evil WitchAlex Campbell (@likethesoup92) - Moe, Munchkin, Tin Man, Apiarist, WinkieTravis Marsala (@travismarsala) -  Curly, Munchkin, Lion, Flying Monkey, WinkieJeremy DeAntonio (@jeremydeantonio5) - Larry, Munchkin, Scarecrow, Winkie, GeneralSusan Day - Almira Gulch, Good WitchCreators & Guests Ean Smith - Producer

With one evil witch already dead, Dorothy and her hit squad must travel to the West to neutralize the other in order for Oz, the Great and Powerful, to help Dorothy and Toto return home, open an investigation into the Munchkin murders, and provide the Tin Man with landmines to protect his property. Written by Ean Smith (@marcusdayhooray)  Credits:   Matthew Storino (@StorinoMp) - Narrator, Oz, WinkieFee Basanavicius (@fbasanavicius) - Dorothy, Winkie, Oz's MomLauren Rivas (@larivasnumerouno) - Aunt Em, Toto, Doorman, Evil WitchAlex Campbell (@likethesoup92) - Moe, Munchkin, Tin Man, Apiarist, WinkieTravis Marsala (@travismarsala) -  Curly, Munchkin, Lion, Flying Monkey, WinkieJeremy DeAntonio (@jeremydeantonio5) - Larry, Munchkin, Scarecrow, Winkie, GeneralSusan Day - Almira Gulch, Good WitchCreators & Guests Ean Smith - Producer

After a Kansas tornader carries a young girl and her talking dog to the strange land of Oz, they set out to find a wizard coincidentally named Oz to ask if he can help them return home. Written by Ean Smith (@marcusdayhooray).      Credits:   Matthew Storino (@StorinoMp) - Narrator, OzFee Basanavicius (@fbasanavicius) - DorothyLauren Rivas (@larivasnumerouno) - Aunt Em, Toto, DoormanAlex Campbell (@likethesoup92) - Moe, Munchkin, Tin ManJeremy DeAntonio (@jeremydeantonio5) -  Curly, Munchkin, ScarecrowTravis Marsala (@travismarsala) - Larry, Munchkin, LionSusan Day - Almira Gulch, Good WitchCreators & Guests Ean Smith - Producer

National cheese day. Entertainment from 1956. 1st hot air balloon flight, shopping cart invented, ATM invented, Quadricycle makes its debut. Todays birthdays - Clara Blandick, Bruce Dern, Freddie Fender, Michelle Phillips, Parker Stevenson, David Keith, El DeBarge, Russell Brand, Angelina Jolie. John Wooden died.

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The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) was the sixth Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, a title he hoped would be the last. In this book, Dorothy and her impoverished Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are on the brink of losing their Kansas farm. Consequently, Ozma invites them all to live in the Emerald City. They then explore the countryside, visiting a series of strange beings including the Cuttenclips, the Fuddles, the Rigmaroles, the Flutterbudgets, and the residents of Utensia, Bunbury and Bunnybury. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry also meet old friends like the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead and H. M. Wogglebug T. E. The travelers' idyll is brought short by the plot of an old enemy, the Nome King. Seeking revenge for the loss of his magic belt, the Nome King has an underground tunnel built so he can invade and plunder Oz and enslave its peoples. Our friends manage to defeat the Nome King and his allies, but sobered by this threat, Glinda and Ozma decide to cut off Oz from the outside world forever. Happily for Oz fans, forever lasted only three years. Baum invented a way to reopen communications with Oz and eight more Oz books were published between 1913-1920.

"Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road..." For our second week in The Wizard of Oz Month, we're discussing the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. In addition to reading the show's script, we watched the 1979 film adaptation starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as well as the 2015 production of The Wiz Live! starring Shanice Williams, Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier, and more. This cultural sensation's plot is remarkably faithful to L. Frank Baum's original Oz book, but there are plenty of moments of adaptation to talk about along the way. Within these three formats - the script, the movie, and the TV adaptation - we find plenty of variation! We discuss Dorothy's different relationships with Aunt Em, Diana Ross's strange arrival in Munchkinland, the Scarecrow's songs, the Kalidah and Poppy battles, the owl therapist, Queen Latifah as a female Wiz, the lessons Dorothy learns along the way, and much more! Join our community! View all of the benefits of joining our *brand new* Patreon including the Official Of Slippers and Spindles Book Club, exclusive polls, monthly bookmarks, Zoom hangouts, and more! https://patreon.com/ofslippersandspindles Check out our new merch store! https://www.redbubble.com/people/ofslippers/shop Visit our Facebook group, Instagram, and more! https://linktr.ee/ofslippersandspindles We love to hear from you! You can reach us at ofslippersandspindles@gmail.com Music: Through The Woods by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

Every quilter has quilt crumbs, in this episode Lori and Ginger talk with Emily Bailey of Aunt Em's Quilts and she shares her tips and tricks for using your quilt crumbs completely. Emily shares her quilt journey and how fabric scraps have been apart of her jouney from day one.  Lori and Ginger get caught up and talk quilt challenges. Click here to view the show notes for this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Bridget continues book 6 of The Wizard of Oz series, The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum. If you enjoy our podcast, please support us by subscribing, rating, writing a review, and telling your friends. You can also donate to our podcast via the "Support" link found at https://anchor.fm/bridget-reads Thank you for listening!!! If you own the rights to a children's book and would like us to read it on our podcast, please get in touch at: storytimewiththeshapirofamily@gmail.com If you would like your book professionally narrated for distribution email Bridget at: bridgetreads247@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bridget-reads/support

Dana and Tom celebrate their 75th episode with an American classic as well as the most viewed movie of all-time: The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lehr. Plot Summary: In Kansas, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives with her dog, Toto, on a farm belonging to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. After the spiteful Miss Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton) takes away Toto for biting her, Dorothy decides to run away to save her dog. Caught in a cyclone, Dorothy is whisked away to Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. Seeking to return to Kansas, Glinda the Good Witch of the North gifts Dorothy ruby slippers, and angers the wicked Witch of the West who also wants them. However, to find her way home, Glinda tells Dorothy to follow the Yellow Brick Road to Emerald City, where she can ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. On her journey, Dorothy meets a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who wants a brain; a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley) who seeks a heart; and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who desires courage. Dorothy and her three unlikely companions travel to the Emerald City to find the Wizard, and help Dorothy to find home. Please make sure to follow, rate, and review the show so that more can join in on our fun. For more on the episode, go to: https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/the-wizard-of-oz-1939 (https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/the-wizard-of-oz-1939) To see the entire list of rankings so far, go to: https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list (https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list) Support this podcast

The Wizard of Oz Chapters I and II   Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.

Glinda greets the guests, as Dorothy tells them that she must return to Kansas. In exchange for the Golden Cap, Glinda happily agrees to help Dorothy. However, before dealing with Dorothy, she makes certain that all of her companions have somewhere to go. She instructs the monkeys to fly the companions to their respective destinations. She then let the monkeys free indefinitely. Glinda informs her that the silver shoes she possesses have the ability to transport her back to her home. All she has to do now is knock three times on the silver shoes. She takes Toto in her arms and clicks the shoes as directed. She has arrived at her new home amid the Kansas grasslands. The silver shoes she had been was “Lost forever in the desert”. Aunt Em comes from her house to water her cabbage plants. She notices Dorothy approaching her. “My darling child! Where in the world did you come from?” Dorothy informs her that she was in the Land of Oz. Her aunt was overjoyed to see both of them. https://chimesradio.com http://onelink.to/8uzr4g https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dorothy lives in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, a farmer, and Aunt Em. They lived in a small house with no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case of any calamities. Around their house, there is nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Dorothy has a little dog Tot, her only source of fun and play. One day, a cyclone came up while they were alone in their house and Dorothy got stuck in the middle of the room. The storm whirls the house in the air and carries it away. At that moment, Dorothy felt like a balloon. Hour after hour passes by, and slowly Dorothy gets over her fright. In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep. https://chimesradio.com http://onelink.to/8uzr4g https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When financial struggles become too much to bear, Dorothy arranges for Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to live with her in Oz. While trying to adjust to their new home, Ozma has Dorothy, her relatives, and her friends take a trip to see some areas in Oz that she has never visited before. Little do they know that the Nome King is preparing a large army to exact his revenge on Ozma and Dorothy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Get ready for the OG Karen, Miss Gulch (played by the fantastic Margaret Hamilton), who is here with a few words for Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in her vendetta against poor Toto! Frank Morgan's Professor Marvel always delights as Tara and EmKay unpack hidden real life backstories of our actors,  imagine Miss Gulch's possible day to day to life, and appreciate the 1930's language.. it's a whopper, ya'll.Show Notes:"The Wizard of Oz": The Screenplay by Noel Langley, Edgar Allan Woolf, Florence RyersonThe Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM by Aljean HarmetzMargaret Hamilton's ObituaryAmour (2012 film)Instagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshray

Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and a little black dog called Toto.There were no trees and no hills in Kansas, and it was often very windy. Sometimes the wind came very fast and very suddenly. That was a cyclone, and it could blow trees and people and buildings away. There were cellars under all the houses. And when a cyclone came, people went down into their cellars and stayed there.One day Uncle Henry came out and looked up at the sky. Then he ran quickly back into the house.‘There's a cyclone coming,' he called to Aunt Em and Dorothy.‘We must go down into the cellar!'They ran to the door of the cellar, but Toto was afraid, and he ran under the bed. Dorothy ran after him.‘Quick!' shouted Aunt Em from the cellar. ‘Leave the dog and come down into the cellar!'

Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and a little black dog called Toto.There were no trees and no hills in Kansas, and it was often very windy. Sometimes the wind came very fast and very suddenly. That was a cyclone, and it could blow trees and people and buildings away. There were cellars under all the houses. And when a cyclone came, people went down into their cellars and stayed there.One day Uncle Henry came out and looked up at the sky. Then he ran quickly back into the house.‘There's a cyclone coming,' he called to Aunt Em and Dorothy.‘We must go down into the cellar!'They ran to the door of the cellar, but Toto was afraid, and he ran under the bed. Dorothy ran after him.‘Quick!' shouted Aunt Em from the cellar. ‘Leave the dog and come down into the cellar!'

The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 6 Title: The Emerald City of Oz Overview: The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum's fourteen Land of Oz books. It was also adapted into a Canadian animated film in 1987. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. While they are toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling allies for an invasion of Oz. This is the first time in the Oz series that Baum made use of double plots for one of the books. Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books to follow. The book was dedicated to "Her Royal Highness Cynthia II of Syracuse" — actually the daughter (born in the previous year, 1909) of the author's younger brother Henry Clay "Harry" Baum. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" in order to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place. In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph. Published: 1910 Series: Nonestica Continent of Imagination, Land of Oz, The Oz Books Series, Novels Series, Oz #6 Author: L. Frank Baum Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Children's Novel, Action & Adventure, Children's Literature Episode: The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 6 Part: 1 of 1 Length Part: 5:56:02 Book: 6 Length Book: 5:56:02 Episodes: 1 - 30 of 30 Predecessor: The Road to Oz Successor: The Patchwork Girl of Oz Narrator: Phil Chenevert Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventures, travelers, fairy tale, magic, magical kingdom, wizard, witches, royalty, whimsical, fantasy, mythology, legends Hashtags: #freeaudiobooks #audiobook #mustread #readingbooks #audiblebooks #favoritebooks #free #booklist #audible #freeaudiobook #LFrankBaum #wizard #wizardofoz #oz #dream #happy #cute #traveling #adventure Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

During a time of chaos and transition, Nyah and Darius lighten things up just. bit with multidisciplinary artist, Sheena O. Murray. Sheena O. Murray is a vocalist, songwriter, and actress currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the U.S. at a young age, where she discovered a growing passion for performance art and decided to pursue theater in high school at Dillard Center for the arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a soulful, soft, and sultry sound, Sheena prides herself on her range as a Mezzo Soprano, - her ability to hit highs, lows, and in-betweens. Stepping into musical theatre, Sheena has landed roles as Lorrell in Dreamgirls, Aunt Em and Glinda in The Wiz, Medda Larkin in Newsies, and more recently, Rose Parks in Walk On: the Story of Rosa Parks (which toured the eastern United States). Stay up-to-date with Sheena on Instagram and Twitter, and find her music, including her new single, Waste Some Time, on all streaming platforms. Make sure you RATE. REVIEW. SHARE.

When theatres, clubs, and bars shuttered their doors back in March, Michael-Birch Pierce and their fellow drag queens took to the streets - literally. Also: After growing up in the Philippines, Francis Tanglao Aguas realized that he’d spent a lot of time on colonized soil. That’s why he founded Aguas Arts Ink, a digital theatre collective dedicated to decolonizing the body and mind. Then: How do you dance in a space that technically doesn’t exist? Dancer and choreographer Scotty Hardwig answers this riddle using motion-sensing technology, creating what he calls “Dance Sci-fi.” Later in the show: Every year high schools put on “The Wizard of Oz” and every year someone gets stuck playing Aunt Em. Joshua Rashon Streeter and Jessica Harris make a case for going beyond the canon with youth theatre, and why kids should play kids. Plus: Fever, shortness of breath, loss of taste and/or smell… we know the symptoms by heart. Still, almost a year into the pandemic, there are certain things a COVID test can’t detect. In her play Symptomatic: IRL, Brittney Harris explores the more abstract side effects of the virus.

Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and a little black dog called Toto.There were no trees and no hills in Kansas, and it was often very windy. Sometimes the wind came very fast and very suddenly. That was a cyclone, and it could blow trees and people and buildings away. There were cellars under all the houses. And when a cyclone came, people went down into their cellars and stayed there.One day Uncle Henry came out and looked up at the sky. Then he ran quickly back into the house.‘There's a cyclone coming,' he called to Aunt Em and Dorothy.‘We must go down into the cellar!'They ran to the door of the cellar, but Toto was afraid, and he ran under the bed. Dorothy ran after him.‘Quick!' shouted Aunt Em from the cellar. ‘Leave the dog and come down into the cellar!'

Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and a little black dog called Toto.There were no trees and no hills in Kansas, and it was often very windy. Sometimes the wind came very fast and very suddenly. That was a cyclone, and it could blow trees and people and buildings away. There were cellars under all the houses. And when a cyclone came, people went down into their cellars and stayed there.One day Uncle Henry came out and looked up at the sky. Then he ran quickly back into the house.‘There's a cyclone coming,' he called to Aunt Em and Dorothy.‘We must go down into the cellar!'They ran to the door of the cellar, but Toto was afraid, and he ran under the bed. Dorothy ran after him.‘Quick!' shouted Aunt Em from the cellar. ‘Leave the dog and come down into the cellar!'

Gather round the table pilgrims as we end our last Feast of Thanksgiving by returning to Oz!  Pilgrim Cole has chosen cult hit from his childhood and is joined once again by Puritan Joshua as they jump into this fairytale adventure that is based on the second and third book in the famous Wizard of Oz series.  Six months has passed since Dorothy went to Oz and her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are growing concerned. Dorothy keeps talking about a far away place with talking Scarecrows and Tin Woodsman, and having dreams about this place. When her Aunttakes her to a special doctor who claims to be able to cure Dorothy, she is met by a strange girl and transported back to Oz. Dorothy finds that Oz is in trouble, as everyone has been turned to stone and the Scarecrow, King of Oz, is missing from his throne! Dorothy and some new friends must take it upon themselves to save the land of Oz from the evil Gnome King before it's too late!  Will Pilgrim Cole and Puritan Joshua find this return to Oz to be one full of life and adventure? Or would it have been better if Oz was left as it was before Cole and Josh returned? Find out on this last episode of Feasts of Thanksgiving!

Tik Tok, Billina and Jack Pumpkinhead....wait that can't be right? Oh it is??? This week Daryl takes us on a journey back to Oz in Disney's semi spiritual sequel to the classic "The Wizard of Oz", Return to Oz where we find Dorothy back home with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em only this time they think she's crazy and send her to electric shock therapy...what the hell? Join us on the journey as we talk the dark bleak atmosphere of this 1985 cult classic and give our thoughts on the film, including the films new sidekicks Tik Tok the loveable new tin man, Billina the wise hen and Jack Pumpkinhead (we see you Disney) the new clumsy one of the group. New recent watches, some news and a new hottie of the week on the new episode of Saturday Night At The Movies.

From imagining Dorothy’s backstory before the Kansas prairie to foreshadowing findings in the text that made us FREAK, join EmKay and Tara as they pretend to be historians of 1800's America and re-examine the inciting incident.Show Notes:The Wizard of Oz Apple Books Narrated by Tituss BurgessA Brief History of Kansas (written by 7th graders)Dorothy: This Side of the RainbowUncle Henry and Aunt Em in OzInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman

Emily Bailey is Aunt Em of Aunt Em's Quilts. She shares, “I am creating a softer, warmer, more loving environment because those quilts will go out into the world and bless the lives of people, so that's why I do quilts.”  Isn't that what we need in our world?  I'm so glad to be part of this community that blesses so many others!  Be sure to check out Emily's website auntemsquilts.com and her other social media links. https://aquilterslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/springquilts-10.jpg () https://auntemsquilts.com/ (Aunt Em's Quilts website) https://www.facebook.com/auntemsquilts/ (Aunt Em's Quilts on Facebook) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-JBH1AV01kwQCdqsug3Iow (Aunt Em's Quilts on YouTube) https://www.instagram.com/emsscrapbag/ (Aunt Em's Quilts on Instagram) https://www.pinterest.com/emsscrapbag/ (Em's Scrapbag on Pinterest)

Following in the footsteps of such mid-80s Disney delights as “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “The Black Cauldron,” “The Watcher in the Woods,” and holy shit Disney was in a dark place… we bring you “Return to Oz.” After Dorothy’s first magical adventure in Oz, she returns to Kansas where her Aunt Em complains about their mortgage and takes Dorothy to a shock therapy doctor. And that’s just the first ten minutes! Whee! Join us as Lindsay keeps insisting this is fine… just fine.

Nine months after her Oz experience, Dorothy wants to return to check in with her friends. Aunt Em thinks Dorothy is mentally ill. She seeks treatment from an experimental clinic using electroshock therapy to treat maladies of the mind. Dorothy is taken to an eerie clinic run by an uncaring Dr. Worley and the stern Nurse Wilson. During the treatment, a mysterious girl watching over Dorothy intervenes during a lightning strike that halts the experiment. Dorothy escapes down a nearby river, washing ashore in the land of Oz again. Except the Yellow Brock Road is demolished. The Emerald City is in ruins and its inhabitants, including all of her old friends, have been turned to stone by the mad Nome King. Except for the Scarecrow, who ran Emerald City in her absence, who has been imprisoned. Along with her hen Billina, a broomstick figure with a pumpkin for a head named, obviously, Jack Pumpkinhead, a robotic soldier named Tik Tok, and a flying beast of burden named The Gump, it's up to Dorothy to stop the mad Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi from destroying the Oz that once was for good. Fairuza Balk stars as Dorothy in her debut feature film. Walter Murch directs and co-writes this nightmarish cult adventure.

Welcome Back to Oztober! Today my friend Mark is joining me to talk about the 1972 animated film, Journey Back to Oz, which was supposed to function as an unofficial sequel to the 1939 MGM original! This film was so committed to being tied to the original, it starred Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, and brought back Margret Hamilton, this time playing Aunt Em! Check out Mark's blogs! The Animation Commendation https://markb4.wordpress.com/ The Live Action Disney Project https://myliveactiondisneyproject.wordpress.com/ For reviews and more from me, follow me online! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIXIceyRxNEE8vgAw6Ye-aQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonjnorth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonJNorth Blog: http://jonathanjnorth.blogspot.com/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jonjnorth/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonjnorth/ If you'd like to help out the show, you can find me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/jonjnorth

Once upon a time there lived a Golden Age gay icon, who whiled away her pre-waxing years sitting atop a split-rail fence in some dour, nondescript American Midwest landscape. Her dreams of a more outrageously fierce existence in the big city (wearing roller skates and one-foot-diameter afro wigs and dancing to Army of Lovers in between lines of blow) were hemmed in on all sides by rusted farm equipment, NAPA Auto Parts Stores, and a lone, dejected Applebee’s out on the turnpike. Kansas didn’t even have a meth lab yet. Or a Sally Beauty Supply. Her nascent fabulousness was imprisoned by voluminous swaths of gingham, satin ribbons, and fussy lace collars -- none of them, unfortunately, worn ironically, with a lollipop or a pacifier or Harajuku-style -- at the behest of Aunt Em, a woman whose character is explained by the shocking fact that the better part of her non-church wardrobe was purchased at Quality Farm & Fleet. (I know.  Couldn’t you just die?)   This girl, as yet scarcely old enough to have a couple of cherries or a leaping dolphin tattooed near her cameltoe, was named Dorothy. One day, like so many dreamy-eyed girls, she donned her Skechers and her discount department store jeans and waited for a meteorological disaster to rescue her from her sad, glitterless rural life.   As luck would have it, one day, an especially violent cyclone (rated EF4 by the local weather service) carved a bloody path of destruction, misery, and death through central Kansas, carrying Dorothy’s trailer (with her and her dog Toto inside, watching Judge Judy) high into the troposphere. At first, Dorothy mistook the rhythmic vibrations for a circuit party and looked under the bed for her whistle, but soon enough she realized she was airborne. And it felt Fab. U. Lous. She thought she even spotted a cross-country Virgin America flight with Diana Ross sitting in first class refusing a skunky glass of Chardonnay and calling the stewardess an uppity white bitch. (She’ll have Dershowitz on the phone when she gets to LAX.) But maybe Dorothy was unconscious and imagining it all. At any rate, she was immune to the ghastly, soul-rending shrieks, rising from below, of a Kansas mother cradling her dead baby who was impaled by a windswept awl in the cyclone. She was busy listening to “Yahoo!” by Erasure on her iPod.    Eventually, after floating around earth’s gaseous atmosphere for a couple of hours, dreaming of Barney’s Co-op Sale, Dorothy landed in some unknown land, flat-ironed her hair, and repositioned her training thong. Outside her trailer a bunch of ghetto midgets were milling around with some old witchy broad. No, it wasn’t that überfem Glinda – like in the movie – it was some tired-ass old mannish thing, looking like Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously. Basically, this bitch is no help at all. She’s supposedly a witch, and you’d think she’d know the way to the Meatpacking District, but all she does is give her some cheap-ass silver shoes (Steve Madden – yuck) and kiss Dorothy on the forehead leaving this “magical” lipmark. Dorothy suspects it’s herpes simplex one and hightails it outta there before the witch gives her boxed wine and has her pose for “art” photographs. (Yes, I remember the very special episode of Diff’rent Strokes with Gordon Jump very well, thank you very much.)   Okay, you know the rest of the story (for the most part). Dorothy seeks out the Wizard of Oz by mapquesting Emerald City (or, alternately, the City of Emeralds) and on the way she meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Lion, who are all needy and want to bask in the glow of her super-hot blinding aura and fierce fantabulousness (and bum a few amphetamines). The Wizard, who likes to mix up his corporeal manifestations, appears to them in his Emerald City throne room (Picture Antwan “Big Boi” Patton’s house on Cribs but with fewer stripper poles and lots more green marble ) in the forms of a giant Little Richard-sized head, a Sears catalog swimsuit model, a vaguely menacing monster, and a talking ball of fire. Obviously, the Wizard has been to see Cirque de Soleil and knows the power of a little Québécois razzle-dazzle. Whilst filing his nails and reading the latest issue of Interview with Drew Barrymore on the cover, the Wizard tells his motley supplicants that, yeah, yeah, sure, he will grant their stupid, retarded wishes if they murder the Wicked Witch of the West, a Tribeca scenester who is always bogarting Page Six with her leather-daddy winged monkey warehouse parties. Dorothy & Crew reluctantly agree – an act of volition which effectively makes Dorothy the youngest hit girl in the history of YA literature, and the only one to ever wear lace-trimmed socklets. Eventually, during a wet t-shirt contest, the witch melts and Dorothy, still flush with her first taste of killing… sweet killing, returns with her entourage to the Wizard to claim her payoff. But then, gosh golly, gee whiz… in a startling atheistic allegory, the all-powerful Wizard is revealed to be an impotent little Wallace Shawn-type standing behind a screen fiddling with some sound board knobs. Nietzsche couldn’t’ve said it any better. The Wizard, who realizes he’s dealing with a bunch of saps here, pretends to grant everyone’s wishes (except Dorothy’s – cuz he’s totally jealous of her fabulousness) and they actually fall for it. Dorothy, burnt-out on the Emerald City scene and suffering from dehydration and exhaustion, longs to return to Kansas to start her autobiographical blog. A bunch of stupid stuff happens, some of which involve a hot air balloon and bitch-slapping trees, and the quartet make their way to Glinda, the Witch of the South, to see if she can grant Dorothy’s wish and thereby prove that she’s at least somewhat less worthless than everybody else in Oz   On the way to the Glinda’s ‘hood, the posse comes across a village where all the people are made of china and break easily (Gee, I wonder why they left that great episode out of the film), and after the Lion accidentally destroys one of their china churches with his tail (I’m not kidding), giving impetus to hate crime legislation the world over, the Tin Woodman decapitates some wolves with his ax. Dorothy skips and frolics through the gory pools of matted fur, blood, and steaming viscera and asks Glinda, who appears to be on Quaaludes, for a trip home. Glinda, as useless as every other allegedly magical person in Oz, tells her that the cheap-ass Steve Madden shoes she’s been wearing could’ve gotten her back to Kansas all along. (And, by the way, when she returns to the Sticks, she should really take off those Chinese panda-skin leatherette things. They’ll give her fatal foot rash.)   So Dorothy uses the magic of those shoes made in China under the brand name of a man imprisoned for magical tax evasion to return to Kansas, where her Aunt and Uncle have long since forgotten about her and adopted a more attractive, Latvian girl who’s not too prissy to hand-inseminate the cows. Dorothy overdoses one night in a dilapidated feed barn on a potent mixture of Robitussin and Gas-X, and Judy Davis plays her in a television movie that no one remembers long enough to have forgotten.

"Aunt Em is all about 'no nonsense,' and Glinda is all about nonsense!" Ashleigh Thompson

"Aunt Em is all about 'no nonsense,' and Glinda is all about nonsense!" Ashleigh Thompson

Aunt Em knows she can’t keep Dorothy and Toto separated so she tells them to 

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第24卷Aunt Em had just come out of the house towater the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.“Mydarling child!” she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering herface with kisses. “Where in the world did you come from?”“Fromthe Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. “And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em!I'm so glad to be at home again!”

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第23卷 第4章Then the Witch looked at the big, shaggy Lion and asked, “When Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will become of you?”“Over the hill of the Hammer-Heads,” he answered, “lies a grand old forest, and all the beasts that live there have made me their King. If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very happily there.”“My third command to the Winged Monkeys,” said Glinda, “shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.”The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness; and Dorothy exclaimed:“You are certainly as good as you are beautiful! But you have not yet told me how to get back to Kansas.”“Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert,” replied Glinda. “If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country.”

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第23卷 第2章“What can I dofor you, my child?” she asked.Dorothy told theWitch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how shehad found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.“My greatestwish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely thinksomething dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning;and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure UncleHenry cannot afford it.”Glinda leanedforward and kissed the sweet, upturned face of the loving little girl.“Bless your dearheart,” she said, “I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas.”Then she added, “But, if I do, you must give me the Golden Cap.”

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第20卷 第9章“Oh, I don't mind him a bit,” said Dorothy.“But you are so beautiful,” she continued, “that I am sure I could love youdearly. Won't you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em'smantel? I could carry you in my basket.”“That would make me very unhappy,” answeredthe china Princess. “You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and cantalk and move around as we please. But whenever any of us are taken away ourjoints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty. Ofcourse that is all that is expected of us when we are on mantels and cabinetsand drawing-room tables, but our lives are much pleasanter here in our owncountry.”“I would not make you unhappy for all theworld!” exclaimed Dorothy. “So I'll just say good-bye.”“Good-bye,” replied the Princess.

Wake up in the morning feeling like I’m crazy I’ve got a chicken as a pal but laying is hazy Before I leave say goodbye to my Aunt Em and Toto Gonna find my way to Oz faster than a photo Email us: returntoozminute@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @ozminute and join us on Facebook using facebook.com/ozminute Just ask to […]

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第18卷 第3章“I also,” said the Tin Woodman, “amwell-pleased with my new heart; and, really, that was the only thing I wishedin all the world.”“For my part, I am content in knowing I amas brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver,” said the Lion modestly.“If Dorothy would only be contented to livein the Emerald City,” continued the Scarecrow, “we might all be happytogether.”“But I don't want to live here,” criedDorothy. “I want to go to Kansas, and live with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.”“Well, then, what can be done?” inquiredthe Woodman.

We were gone for a week because of our new magical adventure! We've traveled to magical lands before, but none of them have the charm and luster of Oz! Surely it will be much the same when we go back. Tony would like to blame his sister Annie for both suggesting this movie AND The Film Reroll, and therefore being the driving force behind this episode. Important questions: What's with Glinda's glassy smile? Is Toto the best dog actor ever? Child torture: an acceptable way to start a movie? Keep an ear out for Tony harassing his online friends while Andy admits to liking a movie where a king is blown up by a chicken. Our outro music is Theme from Penguins on Parade by Lee Rosevere. Find us on twitter! Andy is @royalty_valens Tony is @theaterbats

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第15卷 第4章The four travelers passed a sleeplessnight, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him. Dorothy fellasleep only once, and then she dreamed she was in Kansas, where Aunt Em wastelling her how glad she was to have her little girl at home again.Promptly at nine o'clock the next morningthe green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all wentinto the Throne Room of the Great Oz.Of course each one of them expected to seethe Wizard in the shape he had taken before, and all were greatly surprisedwhen they looked about and saw no one at all in the room. They kept close tothe door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room wasmore dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

Aunt Em goes on a rant about what’s happened since the tornado struck their farm while Uncle Henry analyzes a newspaper ad for “Electric Healing”. If you’ve got that feeling, tune in! Email us: returntoozminute@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @ozminute and join us on Facebook using facebook.com/ozminute Just ask to join our listener group to become part of The Flying […]

Aunt Em comes in to check why Dorothy isn’t sleeping. Mike brings so much information to this quiet minute by checking the script. Tierney brings about 7 million questions about continuity between this movie and its prequel. Minor spoiler alert for the Jaws sequels (why? don’t worry about it). Email us: returntoozminute@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @ozminute and […]

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第13卷 第8章But one day the girl thought of Aunt Em, and said, “We must goback to Oz, and claim his promise.”“Yes,” said the Woodman, “at last I shall get my heart.”“And I shall get my brains,” added the Scarecrow joyfully.“And I shall get my courage,” said the Lion thoughtfully.“And I shall get back to Kansas,” cried Dorothy, clapping herhands. “Oh, let us start for the Emerald City tomorrow!”

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第12卷 第20章The girl had to work hard during the day, and often the Witchthreatened to beat her with the same old umbrella she always carried in herhand. But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the markupon her forehead. The child did not know this, and was full of fear forherself and Toto. Once the Witch struck Toto a blow with her umbrella and thebrave little dog flew at her and bit her leg in return. The Witch did not bleedwhere she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried upmany years before.Dorothy's life became very sad as she grew to understand that itwould be harder than ever to get back to Kansas and Aunt Em again. Sometimesshe would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and lookinginto her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his littlemistress. Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Ozso long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, andthat made him unhappy too.

有声英语童话故事 绿野仙踪 第11卷 第26章“But suppose we cannot?” said the girl.“Then I shall never have courage,” declared the Lion.“And I shall never have brains,” added the Scarecrow.“And I shall never have a heart,” spoke the Tin of Woodman.“And I shall never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry,” said Dorothy,beginning to cry.“Be careful!” cried the green girl. “The tears will fall on yourgreen silk gown and spot it.”So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; butI am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.”

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第11卷 第12章“Where did you get the mark upon your forehead?” continued thevoice.“That is where the Good Witch of the North kissed me when she bademe good-bye and sent me to you,” said the girl.Again the eyes looked at her sharply, and they saw she was tellingthe truth. Then Oz asked, “What do you wish me to do?”“Send me back to Kansas, where my Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are,”she answered earnestly. “I don't like your country, although it is sobeautiful. And I am sure Aunt Em will be dreadfully worried over my being awayso long.”The eyes winked three times, and then they turned up to theceiling and down to the floor and rolled around so queerly that they seemed tosee every part of the room. And at last they looked at Dorothy again.

有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第5卷 第13章Both Dorothy and the Scarecrowhad been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knewwhy he was so anxious to get a new heart.“All the same,” said theScarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would notknow what to do with a heart if he had one.”“I shall take the heart,”returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness isthe best thing in the world.”Dorothy did not say anything, forshe was puzzled to know which of her two friends was right, and she decided ifshe could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so muchwhether the Woodman had no brains and the Scarecrow no heart, or each got whathe wanted.What worried her most was thatthe bread was nearly gone, and another meal for herself and Toto would emptythe basket. To be sure neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything,but she was not made of tin nor straw, and could not live unless she was fed.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第2卷 第6章“But,” said Dorothy, after amoment's thought, “Aunt Em has told me that the witches were all dead–years andyears ago.”“Who is Aunt Em?” inquired thelittle old woman.“She is my aunt who lives inKansas, where I came from.”The Witch of the North seemed tothink for a time, with her head bowed and her eyes upon the ground. Then shelooked up and said, “I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard thatcountry mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?”“Oh, yes,” replied Dorothy.“Then that accounts for it. Inthe civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, norsorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never beencivilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore westill have witches and wizards amongst us.”“Who are the wizards?” askedDorothy.“Oz himself is the Great Wizard,”answered the Witch, sinking her voice to a whisper. “He is more powerful thanall the rest of us together. He lives in the City of Emeralds.”

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第1卷 第4章Toto jumped out of Dorothy's armsand hide under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badlyfrightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladderinto the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to followher aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek fromthe wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat downsuddenly upon the floor.Then a strange thing happened.The house whirled around two orthree times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were goingup in a balloon.The north and south winds metwhere the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone. In themiddle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of thewind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was atthe very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles andmiles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第1卷 第3章Today, however, they were notplaying. Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky,which was even grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in herarms, and looked at the sky too. Aunt Em was washing the dishes.From the far north they heard alow wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the longgrass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistlingin the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they sawripples in the grass coming from that direction also.Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.“There's a cyclone coming, Em,” hecalled his wife. “I'll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the shedswhere the cows and horses were kept.Aunt Em dropped her work and cameto the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.“Quick, Dorothy!” she screamed.“Run for the cellar!”

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第1卷 第2章When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young,pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparklefrom her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from hercheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and neversmiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em hadbeen so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press herhand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and shestill looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything tolaugh at.Uncle Henry never laughed. Heworked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was grayalso, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn,and rarely spoke.It was Toto that made Dorothylaugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto wasnot gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyesthat twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played allday long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第1卷 第1章Dorothy lived in the midst of thegreat Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who wasthe farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to becarried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, whichmade one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboardfor the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry andAunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.There was no garret at all, and no cellar–except a small hole dug in theground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of thosegreat whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It wasreached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led downinto the small, dark hole.When Dorothy stood in the doorwayand looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on everyside. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reachedto the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed landinto a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was notgreen, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were thesame gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but thesun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was asdull and gray as everything else.

Garrett Kilgore reads a new Christmas story by Jay Davis. Christmas in Kansas tells of how Dorothy Gale, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry celebrated Christmas following the events of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Anyone wishing to read the story instead is welcome to a free PDF or an EPUB (zipped).

The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum’s fourteen Land of Oz books. Originally published in 1910, it is the story of Dorothy and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. While they tour through the Quadling Country, the Nome King assembles allies for an invasion of Oz. Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books to follow. In chapter one, the Nome King is angry because Dorothy and Ozma had stolen his Magic Belt. He asks his Chancellor, Kaliko, and General Blug what to do. The King vows revenge upon Ozma and Dorothy.