The second book of Oz series.
The title is "The Land of Oz" now. It used to be "The Marvelous Land of Oz". The Japanese title "Ozu no niji no kuni" means "The Rainbow Country of Oz". Why did they choose the word "rainbow"? Someone said that it might have been taken from the song "Over the Rainbow" from the MGM movie. I think that guess is probably right.
Many new characters appear in this book. They become important and popular in the later books.
I've been an Oz fan for thirty years ever since I was a child. I read the series in Japanese before because I couldn't understand English very well. Now my English is better than before. I'd like to try to read the oz books in their original English versions, just little by little.
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