I’m a huge fan of the musical Wicked , and have been since I was in middle school. After the first movie adaptation came out last year, I thought it would be fun to revisit the book that inspired it all, and read the rest of Baum’s Oz books. The 1939 film adaptation was a key touchstone of my childhood, and while I’ve read the original before, it’s been an incredibly long time. (Actually, come to think of it, it might be that I’ve only read the Great Illustrated Classics adap