This was a bit of silly, goofy fun. I did have come criticisms but also understand that it's a children's book and I'm long out of that demographic, and some of the things I didn't like as much may come into the fact that it is written for children. There were some funny moment where I laughed out loud, but I found the story to be overly convenient at times and the pace was so fast that I felt we didn't get to dwell in some of the moments and the world. My edition also had the Little Wizard Stories of Oz at the end which seemed completely inconsistent with the world and storyline of this first book, so I'm not sure if I'm interested in reading more from this series as I believe these were written to get a younger audience into the series. Overall, I generally enjoyed my time with this book and am glad to have finally read the book that inspired one of my favourite movies, which I may just go and watch now.