The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/ Author and Blogger Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 Oz: the sweet and powerful https://www.cathrinhagey.com/oz-the-sweet-and-powerful/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:49:06 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4411 You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Why do some stories, such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stand the test of time while others fade into obscurity? For one thing, the great ones […]

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]]> 4411 Wind in Fairy Tales and Fantasy https://www.cathrinhagey.com/wind-fairy-tales-fantasy/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:33:32 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4269 One day, when my daughter was about four years old, she said, “My breath speaks to me.” I was amazed by the ancient wisdom implied in this adorable insight. Breath, wind, wisdom and genius have long been associated with one another, in religion and mythology, in fairy tales and poetry. Wind’s matrix is air, which […]

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]]> 4269 Oz, the Great and Powerful: First Impressions https://www.cathrinhagey.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-first-impressions/ https://www.cathrinhagey.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-first-impressions/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:59:31 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=2776 Spoiler alert!! If you haven’t seen Oz, the Great and Powerful starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis, you should probably read this review some other time. Thank you. How to make a little something out of a great something… Take one girl (Dorothy), place her within a coming-of-age story, add a […]

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]]> https://www.cathrinhagey.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-first-impressions/feed/ 2 2776 Wonder Never Ceases https://www.cathrinhagey.com/wonder-never-ceases/ https://www.cathrinhagey.com/wonder-never-ceases/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 01:04:13 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=303 The Library of Congress exhibit of L. Frank Baum’s classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, contains anecdotes from the life of the author including his relief over the book’s success, his earlier works, a copyright application and an early New York Times review, among other fascinating tidbits. The book is described as “the first totally […]

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