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And of course there is the evergreen 1939 movie "The Wizard ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. And that's a pity. Mine is probably the last generation of kids to be brought up on the ...

Released in 2013, this live-action film released by Disney is meant to be something of a spiritual prequel to MGM’s The Wizard of Oz ... told the story of an adult Dorothy Gale, a children ...

And it applies, equally, to the "Oz" stories where she ... Everyone loves "The Wizard of Oz," except the official arbiters of kid lit: critics and children's librarians. They hate the "Oz" books.

Chu, is a revelatory prequel to “The Wizard of Oz," and the first of ... Ariana Grande that’ll wow musical theater kids and old-school “Oz” fans alike," Truitt wrote in his review.