Ozma of Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum
This review was originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 1(2): 3, 1979.
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L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz is a splendid tale of intellectual adventure full of thought experiments, including a tree that bears lunch boxes and napkins as fruit, beings like humans but with wheels at the ends of their four limbs, a mechanical man (called “Tiktok”) who can think, speak, and act but is not alive, and a princess with thirty alternative heads and accompanying temperaments. One could base a whole philosophy course on Ozma of Oz. One can also read it simply for fun – including, of course, philosophical fun.
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