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The Wizard of Oz is a book that has a movie made from it. But there are many differences between the book and the movie. Here are some of them:

1. In the book, it states that on the Kansas prairie there are no other houses in sight. In the movie, there are many other houses, and also other characters that resemble characters in the land of Oz.
2. In the book, the slippers from the Wicked Witch of the East are silver. In the movie, they are ruby.
3. In the book, Dorothy doesn’t meet the Wicked Witch of the West until later in the book, when Oz tells her to kill the witch. In the movie, Dorothy meets her when the west witch is at the body of the Witch of the East.
4. In the movie, there are a more songs than there are in the book.
5. There are less obstacles along the yellow brick road in the movie.
6. In the book, Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion get stuck in the poppy field and are rescued by the field mice. In the movie, the field mice don’t exist, and Dorothy is rescued by Glinda, who, in the movie, is the Witch of the North, and not the Witch of the South.
7. Oz says in the book that Dorothy & Co (Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin man, and the Lion) have to kill the Wicked Witch of the West. In the movie, they only have to bring her broom.
8. The great head that only appears for Dorothy in the book appears to all of Dorothy & Co in the movie. This is because all of the characters met Oz at the same time in the movie, unlike the book.
9. I don’t need to write about what happened in the Witch of the West’s castle. If you’ve read the book and watched the movie, you know the differences, and there are too many to say right now.
10. In the book, at the part where the wizard goes up in a balloon, Dorothy goes to the south to find Glinda. In the movie, Glinda floats up in a bubble.
11. THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE OF THEM ALL: In the book, the story is real. In the movie, it is a dream.

I think the movie is only an average adaptation of the book. Maybe the slipper color should have stayed the same. I don’t see the point of changing it. I can understand why they made some of the changes above. Since the film was made in 1939, it might have been hard to make special effects. Most of the special effects today are no big deal. But others that were above didn’t even involve special effects. I don’t understand why they changed them.

If I was asked who I would rather travel with: Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), or Dorothy, I would say that I would rather travel with Dorothy, because (no offense to the people who disagree) Alice, if she has a problem, always is going to give up and say, “Oh, no! What should I do?” It’s my opinion that if Dorothy had the same problem, she would actually try to find an answer to it. I like a character who will find solutions to things.

I like both the book and the movie. All the non-flesh characters were quite interesting, especially how L. Frank Baum (the author), makes them have origins, since Baum says “they were formed by… (e.x. The Scarecrow was made by a farmer and put on a pole, but the farmer forgot to give him a brain.) The plot was also interesting. It was the same in both the book and the movie. There are other books in the series. There are fourteen books in total. My favorite is called Ozma of Oz. It is the third in the series. I hope someone will make a movie out of all the other books also.