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Frank Baum wrote the stories he told his children when he wrote The Wizard of Oz. He wrote about Dorthy, a very young child from Kansas who is waught in a tornado with her dog and sent to a diffrent world. He also wrote about a cowardly lion who turns out to be not so cowardly and a tin man who wants a heart. The Land of Oz is a strange and new place for them where people live in segregated areas based on the color of the clothing they wear or what they are made of (like the porcelain city). The only ones allowed to wear white are the good witches. Dorthy is immediatly considered a good witch because she is wearing white and because she killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Baum addresses the ordinary concerns in a child's life like being affraid and needing love, but he also points out America's isolationism of the late 1800s and early 1900s and the country's strict segregationist practices.
This book is an easy read and a great/cute story with just the right amount of social consciousness added.
Other Suggested Books:
Brave New World
Waiting
Invisable Man
Dr.Karmanzov (I am pretty sure I spelled that wrong)
Gone With the Wind
anything by Dosteyofsky
Hitchhickers Guide to the Galexy
(and I basically like anything phylisophical)
Mali Ouzts
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