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Customer Review: Baum's other magical land
Baum whisks us to another world, with the androgynous and entrancing Prince Marvel, who pines to become mortal. This is one of Baum's "non-Oz" best! Several parts of the book shine with ingenuity, and only from the pen of Baum could this have come to paper. No other author of children's novels writes like this, and no other author can bring to the world such a magical feast like THE ENCHANTED ISLAND OF YEW. A great recommendation for a young one, or for anyone who desires light-hearted, escapist, high fantasy.
Customer Review: Excellent novel, not-so-good illustrations
The novel is a typical Baum fantasy, that is, carelessly plotted, but filled with wonderful creations (there is more invention in one Baum novel than in a basket of trilogies by any current fantasy writer), and often amusing (the reformation of the thieves is hilarious). As for this particular edition: No one can fault the publisher for being stingy with George O'Connor's illustrations--there are approximately fifty--but that is not necessarily a good thing. O'Connor's work seems crude to me, and he has an annoying tendency to stray from the text--for example, the hero, Prince Marvel, is repeatedly described as "small" and "slight," yet O'Connor consistently depicts someone who could wrestle Superman.
Customer Review: Lovely Light-heartedness.
Yes, Baum has done it again. This book is a lot different from many of his others, yet maintains his odd magic. The only thing that I didn't like is that the main character is already so powerful that none of the bad guys pose much of a challange to him. But really, any Baum reader will love it.
Customer Review: DO NOT ORDER THE BLUE UNICORN EDITION!!!!!!!
The Blue Unicorn Edition is an incredibly shoddy book-- an InstaBook. It looks like a printout of an unillustrated web page. To top it off, the author's name is given on the cover as "Frank L. Baum," which showed these people had no idea what they were doing, not to mention it's poorly cut and there are blobs of ink all over the book. I'm going to send it back and exchange it for the Wildside edition. I know their books are good quality, since Phyliis Ann Karr showed me hers from them.
Customer Review: A Different Tone than Oz
While this is indeed a fairy tale, it's tone is much different than the Oz books for which L. Frank Baum is best known. It is a very good children's book.
One gets the impression that this book was written independently of the Oz canon. It is not mentioned anywhere in the Oz books. As a child, my only knowledge of it came from the maps found at the beginning of some of that series. The book was also listed in the other works of Baum. The maps kindled my interest as did the references to it in the "By" columns but I was unable to get a copy for 30 years. It was worth the wait.
The story involves a fairy on the enchanted island of Yew. She is tired of being immortal and the sameness of everything and enlists the aid of some girls to aid her in an adventure. She gets transformed into a "mortal" prince for the space of a year and sets out to explore the island and have a good time. In doing so, he comes across several different kingdoms, each with its own peculiarity, rights some wrongs and has a good time.
Yew seems directed at a slightly older audience than Oz but it is still meant for young people and people young at heart. It was worth waiting for.
Product Description
How strange! In the Forest of Luria, Lady Seseley of the yellow tresses stumbles upon a fairy bower . . . where the most unusual opportunity presents itself: the chance to transform an immortal being into a mortal. Before her eyes appears a handsome young knight: Prince Marvel. Setting out in search of adventure, he finds it aplenty on the enchanted isle, as he soon meets King of the Thieves Wul-Takim, and the fearsome giant, Red Rogue. An innocent among mortals though he is, Prince Marvel sets things right -- or maybe just topsy-turvy!
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