Read-along
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Down the road of yellow brick, a chapter a day, from the day the first copy came off the press.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 17 May
- Length
- Length 25 days
In 1900 a Chicago writer, L. Frank Baum, and the artist W. W. Denslow brought out what Baum called a modernized fairy tale. It begins on a grey Kansas farm, with an orphan girl, her little black dog and a cyclone, and it goes somewhere very bright: a country of Munchkins and witches, a road paved with yellow brick, and three companions who each believe the Wizard at the end of it can give them what they lack. The book is odder, funnier and sometimes fiercer than the film. Twenty-five days, Baum's introduction and then a chapter a day, from the day the first copy was printed.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
Day by day
- Day 1. IntroductionL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 2. The CycloneL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 3. The Council with the MunchkinsL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 4. How Dorothy Saved the ScarecrowL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 5. The Road Through the ForestL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 6. The Rescue of the Tin WoodmanL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 7. The Cowardly LionL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 8. The Journey to the Great OzL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 9. The Deadly Poppy FieldL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 10. The Queen of the Field MiceL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 11. The Guardian of the GateL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 12. The Wonderful City of OzL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 13. The Search for the Wicked WitchL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 14. The RescueL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 15. The Winged MonkeysL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 16. The Discovery of Oz, the TerribleL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 17. The Magic Art of the Great HumbugL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 18. How the Balloon Was LaunchedL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 19. Away to the SouthL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 20. Attacked by the Fighting TreesL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 21. The Dainty China CountryL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 22. The Lion Becomes the King of BeastsL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 23. The Country of the QuadlingsL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 24. Glinda the Good Witch Grants Dorothy's WishL. Frank Baum, 20 min
- Day 25. Home AgainL. Frank Baum, 20 min