Return to OzA Golden Book (Escape from the Witch's Castle) by Walt Disney Company

Return to OzA Golden Book (Escape from the Witch's Castle) Reviews

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  Robin Bonne

  Picked up a vintage copy of this graphic novel based on the movie. This is a lot of fun and the illustrations match scenes from the movie.
  I deducted one star due to the colorations not lining up with the illustrations on some pages.
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  Rachel

  4 stars.
  
  
  I still stand by this being the scariest, darkest kids movie I saw in my childhood. Mombi. Yes Princess (bitchy nasty) Mombi, you know, the lady who takes her head off at night to sleep and then decides which head she will place on her body the next day from the cabinet of heads she has at the palace. Ohh and don't forget she's the one who will threaten to take Dorothy's head because she's pretty. Don't ask me where she got the other heads from. I'll just point out the window to the 'statues' of the headless ladies in the courtyard. *shivers*
  
  Then there is the Wheelers. Yeah, the creepy clown looking guys who have wheels instead of hands and feet. Seriously I couldn't make this up! They squeek when turning and their laugh is enough to give you nightmarers for life!
  
  Did I mention this is a children's book. Ohh....and that it's a freaken DISNEY movie 🤯 It was like Disney wanted to work with the devil and this was the movie the came up with. I swear they actually tried to make it the stuff of nightmares.
  
  But I got a bit side tracked. This audio read-a-long version definitely was the lightest way to tell the story. Briefly and without the horrors getting too deep into your soul. The story definitely has imagination and wonderful characters.
  
  This story will always be one that I really love. Dark and creepy but I love horror movies. I love to be scared. This version was still good and stuck to the main parts of the storyline which was good. It's one I can go back to listen to anytime because it's so short and quick to get through but just enough so that I get that desire to hear the story, fullfilled.
  
  (I still can't believe this was Disney...)
  
  
  Audiobook I choose -
  https://youtu.be/XOGQxPuaVN4
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  Dannielle Albert

  This book is based on the movie "Return to Oz." If you've seen the movie, you've read the book as there is absolutely no new information that can be gleaned from reading it. In fact, I kept seeing the movie perfectly from beginning to end in my head and hearing the character's voices as I was reading. The movie was very loosely based on L. Frank Baum's classic book "Ozma of Oz," one of the many books in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" series borrowing elements from the 1939 film such as the slippers being ruby rather than silver and also stealing the character of Jack Pumpkinhead from the book "The Marvelous Land of Oz." An AMAZING movie and excellent adaptation from screenplay to book.
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  Michael M.

  I rank it ahead of most graphic novels for this panel alone:
  
  
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  Kim

  Youtube
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  Jessie

  Read this when I was around 9-10 years old. I expected it to pick up right where the movie ended. I don't remember it well but I do remember being disappointed and finding it weird. Probably because I was little and had such big expectations for it since The Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite movies.
  
  I'm sure little me would have given it a lower rating but I am giving it 4 because I'm certain it is better than I thought at that time.
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  Ernest

  old time favorite... haha
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  Shahna

  Not as scary as the movie, but still pretty scary.
  
  The story really isn't that good. It's weird. But I like the artwork.
  
  Disney makes weird shit.