The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage in this brilliant delightfully snarky
reimagining from the author of The Library of the Unwritten . “Heartfelt and often hilarious.
. . . Toto takes his place among the pantheon of Very Good literary canines.”— The Washington
Post I was mostly a Good Dog until they sold me out to animal control okay? But if it’s a
choice between Oz with its creepy little singing dudes and being behind bars in gray old
Kansas I’ll choose the place where animals talk and run the show for now thanks. It’s not my
fault that the kid is stuck here too or that she stumbled into a tug-of-war over a pair of
slippers that don’t even taste good. Now one witch in good eyeliner calls her pretty and we’re
off on a quest? Teenagers. I try to tell her she’s falling in with the wrong crowd when she
befriends a freaking hedge wizard made of straw that blue jay with revolutionary aspirations
and the walking tin can. Still I’m not one to judge when there’s the small matter of a coup in
the Forest Kingdom.... Look something really stinks in Oz and this Wizard guy and the
witches positively reek of it. As usual it’s going to be up to a sensible little dog to do a
big dog’s job and get to the bottom of it. And trust me: Little dogs can get away with
anything.
