@llewelly I read the Oz books only in adulthood, initially out of pure curiosity because they're so weird, and then to my kid when I had one.
They vary greatly in quality, even the original ones by Baum. His style was evolving rapidly over the first few books and the continuity is wildly inconsistent from volume to volume. Eventually he gets this big fandom and kids start sending him letters complaining about the inconsistencies so he has to write more to patch them up.
And then he got sick of Oz and tried to kill the series with the sixth one, only to realize that the Oz books sold and nobody was buying his other ones. Similar to Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, I suppose.
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