Essential Classics are a quick way into some of the most exciting classic novels. Includes illustrations, a glossary and a reading quiz.

Retold for younger readers, The Wizard of Oz tells the story of Dorothy, a young girl who lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm in Kansas. She is picked up by a sudden storm and dropped in a magical land of tin men, cowardly lions, scarecrows without a brain and the wonderful, terrifying Wizard of Oz.