"The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air. There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders."
"The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air. There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders."
Think about what strategies worked (and didn't work) for you this time. How can you do well next time?
| 1) | The Wicked Witch sent lots of things to harm Dorothy and her friends. Some are listed below. Which animal is NOT something the Wicked Witch sent to harm Dorothy and her friends? |
| 4) | Who does the Wicked Witch of the West tell the Winged Monkeys to bring to her? |
| 5) | How is the Lion able to resist being harnessed like a horse? |
| 6) | Why does Toto feel unhappy while the Wicked Witch imprisons them? |
| 7) | How does Dorothy kill the Wicked Witch? |
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood–curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.
"… the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood–curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale."
