Sam Reviews "Caraval" by Stephanie Garber

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I was recommended it based on my rating of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and I feel like this was a great next book. I loved so much about this book, and once I got into the thick of it, it was hard for me to put it down. There was a YA feel and a few moments where the magic / fantasy aspect made some conflicts easier to overcome than they could have been, but it didn't take too much away from the story. I highly recommend this book for people who appreciate fantasy, magic, and mystery.

While skimming through the "About the Author" section, I noticed the phrase "[She] wanted to be an explorer until she realized most of the world had already been discovered".  I remember almost this exact sentence being in "Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children" but I'm also positive it's been stated other places, too.  But, already, this book is feeling familiar (in a good and welcoming way).

I really appreciated the passive mentioning of the main character being able to "feel colors" so I went out of my pay to pull out those sentences, but I'm going to list them separately from the rest of the "quotes":

• Shimmery gold, the color of magic and wishes and promises
• Dull shades of gray disappointment
• Goldenrod desire
• Plum - the shade of dark bruises and power
• Rich cerise - the color of seduction and secrets
• Sage-shaded colors of suspicion
• Brilliant gold-blue sparks, the color of childhood dreams
• Panicked vermilion
• She felt as if she could taste the red of the curtains. Chocolate cake drenched in wine.
• Silver rush of excitement
• Icy-blue nervous hum
• Smoky-ginger prickle of discomfort
• Five different shades of berry-colored foolish
• Periwinkle curiosity
• A fearful rush of anise and lavender and something akin to rotted plums.
• Dreary yellow hopelessness
• Peach embarrassment
• Gray smoke...the color of things better left unsaid
• Light brown, the color of caramel and liquid amber lust
• Disappointment - it came in shades of forget-me-not blue, which wrapped around her like evening fog.
• Perilous shades of silky black
• Sour shades of yellow-green made her stomach roil with trepidation
• Gowns in every material and shade. The color if late-night laughter, early-morning sunshine, and waves crashing around ankles.
• Champagne and pale-orchid - the colors of infatuation
• Surge of panic.  It came in shades of hemlock green - the color of poison and terror.
• Scarlett's horror spiked, turning shades of quicksilver.
• Death was the color purple
• The color of dark fairy tales - black ice covered with tarnished gold script
• The gray of everyone's grief
• The sting of her rejection in shades of stormy blue, ghosting over her heart like sad mourning mist
• Flat black, the color of failure and funerals
• Emerald green premonition
• Threads of violet panic
• Ochre shades of uneasy
• The color gold felt hopeful and magical
• Shades of brilliant orange-red - the color of bravery
• He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue.  Colors that made her feel safe and guarded
• Periwinkle - the color of sweet dreams and happy endings
• Bitter yellow puddle of dread in her stomach
• Hazel eyes met hers, as sad as fresh-cut wood
• Shades of rich ruby love
• Hues of deep indigo hurt

Part One:  The Isle of Trisda

Quite a passive bombshell writing "I know you didn't commit murder" in the opening pages of the book, if I wasn't intrigued already, I certainly am now.

Of course the smooth-talking guy is named Julien...

"When [Julian] had swaggered off his shop, tall and handsome, with golden-brown skin, he'd drawn almost every woman's eye.  Even Scarlett's head had turned briefly, but she'd known better than to look any longer."

"Scarlett's sister had always like beautiful things, like the young man waiting for her behind the barrels.  Often, if Scarlett lost one of her prettier possessions, she could find it tucked away in her younger sister's room."

"Thick lashes lined his light brown eyes, just made for convincing girls to lift their skirts and open their arms."

"A beautiful, ridiculous, fantasy."

"...the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies told to children often do.  It didn't matter how many other people confirmed the truth."

"It was the kind of night where she could smell the moon, thick candle wax dancing with the salty scent of the ocean, full and glowing."

"He moved with the practiced ease of someone Scarlett felt it would be unwise to trust."

"There's more to life than staying safe."

"But [the witch] also warned that wishes come with costs, and the more he performed, the more he would transform into whatever roles he played.  If he acted the part of villain, he'd become one in truth."

"She'd disappeared like a broken star, leaving the world untouched, save for the bits of missing light that no one would ever see again."

"Her father would never have let her wear something so eye-catching, and even though he wasn't there, attention was still not a thing she craved."

"Scarlett wondered if she'd found a way to escape her father's deadly games on Trisda, only to become a well-costumed piece on a new game board."

"Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people don't wake up."

Part Two:  The Night of Caraval Eve

"The sky was black, the moon visiting some other part of the world."

"Every window shimmered with buttery illumination, turning the flower boxes below into cradles full of stardust."

"...lying for him had been a mistake, and there were always consequences for that.  Her entire life was evidence of thus."

"Scarlett knew she shouldn't have been upset, they were nothing to each other, but she despised being deceived; she'd had enough of that to last a lifetime."

"Scarlett knew he was trying to manipulate her. She'd had enough experience to recognize the signs. Unfortunately, despite her lengthy history of being used by her father, or perhaps because of it, she was never good at evading it."

"Julien's smile turned seductive, all shameless curves and immoral promises.  An invitation to places that proper young ladies didn't think about, let alone visit.  Scarlett didn't want to imagine what sorts of things that smile had convinced other girls to do."

"She knew better than to assume any type of game came without a cost."

"Flashing her a look made of lies and other sinful things."

"Scarlett imagined this was the sort of place a person could be lost and never found."

"The sailor looked haunted, as if those moments outside had cost him something valuable.  She could feel the night still hovering around him.  The tips of his dark hair were damp with it."

"Smelled like the end of the night, swear and fading fire smoke mixed with lingering breath from words whose ghosts still haunted the air."

"He used people.  His use of her had been mutually beneficial, but he'd used her all the same.  She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle."

"I didn't say we were in love - I only said we were engaged."

"A square teal door with a green glass handle that looked a bit like a gemstone. Gaudy and magnificent. Perfect for Tella."

"While Scarlett often feared men, Tella was the opposite, always chasing after the wrong ones, hoping one might give her the love their father withheld."

"He had the sort of profile meant for sculptors and painters. Full lips, strong jaw, coal-dark eyes sheltered by thick, dark brows."

"She studied him again in the lamplight, eyes falling on the black rose inked on the backside of his hand, elegant and lovely and a little bit sorrowful.  Scarlett didn't know why, but she felt as if that tattoo somehow defined him. The elegant and lovely part might have scared her away - she had learned that this too often disguised other things - but the sad part drew her in."

"He continued to smile at Scarlett, the way Scarlett always hoped a boy would, as if he wasn't just attracted to her, but he wanted to protect and take care of her."

"A gaze full of wayward intent."

Part Three:  Night One of Caraval

"Even years later, Paloma's disappearance clung to Scarlett like a shadow that no amount of brightness could erase."

"...reminded of all the greedy eyes and hands grabbing at Tella's possessions, as if they were segments of a puzzle rather than pieces of a person."

"I know he's a count, which means he's a noble, and no one holds a position like that and manages to stay honest."

"Scarlett was not fond of fate.  She liked to believe that if she were good, good things would happen.  Fate left her feeling powerless and hopeless, and with an overwhelming feeling of lessness.  To her, fate seemed ... [to be] stealing her choices and controlling her life without any regard for her feelings.  Fate meant nothing she did mattered."

"Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to for what they desire more than anything."

"...her need for pleasure to help her forget the wounds she liked to ignore."

"No one is truly honest, even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves."

"Tincture of Forgetting and Extract of Lost Tomorrows."

"Someone screamed.  As hot and bright as fire."

"She wanted to trust him, but a lifetime of mistrust made it impossible."

Part Four: Night Two of Caraval

"Maybe distrust should not always be her first response."

"[She was] as pretty as a watercolor"

"This girl was that hot sunny day in the middle of the Cold Season, either unaware or uncaring that she did not belong."

"The young man held his young bride's hand with the care of a man not used to holding such an important thing."

"Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost."

"Something acidic and moldy and burnt bubbled up through Scarlett's throat - the taste of death."

"Her words came out garbled, as if she'd bitten them into pieces before spitting them out."

"She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out."

Brownish green, the color of forgotten memories, abandoned dreams, and bitter gossip.

"A street lined with hanging lanterns, smelling of flowers and flutes and long lost love."

Part Five:  Day Four of Caraval

"The world tasted like lies and ashes when Scarlett woke."

"Scarlett had learned to temper her feelings, yet Tella was driven by her volatile emotions and desires."

"The [room] still smelled like Tella - sharp molasses and wild dreams."

"Had she begun to believe him because she desperately wanted to, or because Julien really was telling the truth?"

"His hands were clenched, holding his secrets the way Scarlett so often clutched her fear, as if letting go would unravel him."

"For a fragile moment, as thin and long as a stretched-out spider web, there was only the waves in the distance."

"His steady gaze...reached out to the broken parts of her like a caress.  The type of touch that moves through damaged skin, past fractures bones and into a person's wounded soul. ... It was as if all her shame, her guilt, the awful secret memories she tried to bury, were laid out for him to see."

"Evil laughter, a sour sound of nightmares and other foul things."

"It never seemed to scare her that some of the things she lusted for might consume her like a flame."

"There was something seductive about winning the heart of someone who vowed  to never love again."

"Decent people like you always believe other people can be virtuous."

Part Six: Night Four of Caraval

"Her skirt and blouse were silver this time, with eyes and lips painted to match.  Like a teardrop the moon had cried."

"The type of young man someone invited to a party just because he had a way of looking beautiful and intriguing at once."

"Lips designed for dark whispers and straight white teeth perfect for biting into things."

"His green eye stayed on hers.  Vibrant and elegant and poisonous."

"He was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black."

"Colors as soft as velvet and as sharp as sparks that turned into stars."

"The count's well-groomed expression had shifted to something cloudy and uncertain."

"Every darkening shade on his visage. Frustration. Embarrassment.  Wounded pride."

"Sinking into a feeling of security she'd never known before."

"Scarlett felt as if she'd stepped into a faded memory. As if the magical town had been abandoned long ago, and she was coming back to find nothing quite as she recalled."

"A hole made of black sky robbed of stars."

"He was made of dashing elegance, laced with intrigue and illusion, set off by a twinkle in his dark eyes."

"Julien's smile turned vicious, the kind made for breaking hearts"

"His brown eyes full of all sorts of unspoken promises."

Part Seven: Night Five the Last Night of Caraval

"Pink lips parting into a smile made of hopes and dreams and other treacherous things."

"Most of what she felt was agony, but she also didn't feel afraid of anything."

Part Eight:  The Day After Caraval

"Scarlett wanted to melt into the night, wink out of existence like a broken star."

Sam Reviews "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells

So, I literally only read this book because it's "iconic" and a "classic" but I honestly had no expectation of liking it.  But, I loved it.  I think maybe it's because it's written like a story being told between people and not like a novel.  Also I felt like there were points of view, and descriptions that resonated with me and seemed to be directly responsible for modern day stories about time travel.  Or, maybe it's just that time travel is the only sub-genre of Science Fiction that I'm interested in.  Regardless, i think this was an amazing story, and it's super short so there's honestly no reason everyone doesn't read it!

Jules Verne's and H.G. Wells' work took different directions, reflecting two different generations and schools of thought.  Verne's style emerged from the fantastic writing of the mid-nineteenth century, when exploration captured the imagination of the Western world.  Well was a member of a generation struggling with an increasingly urban environment, huge advances in technology, and a massive restructuring of society.

New Vocabulary:  Occidential; adjective; relating to the countries of the Occident 

New Vocabulary:  Monomania; exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.

Year the narrator travels to is:  802,707 A.D.
Morlocks are under world, Eloi are above world

"I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued. A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest."

"I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity - indeed there is no necessity - for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears."

"There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden."

"We improve them [our favorite plants and animals - and how free and few they are] gradually by selective breeding.  ...gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. Some day all this will be better organized, and still better.  ...  The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and cooperating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature.  In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs."

"A sentiment is arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life."

"After the [conquest against nature] cones Quiet."

"Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness." 
"I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless tap that ever a man devised."

"Men had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals:  that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendents of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages."

"I have thought since how particularly ill-equipped I was for such an experience. When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances. I had come without arms, without medicine, without anything to smoke, even without enough matches."

"These Eloi were fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon - probably saw to the breeding of."

"She always seemed to me more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human."

"I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease,  balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes - to come to this at last.  Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.  The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed."

"And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers ... to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man."

Sam Review's "Oz: The Complete Collection" - by L. Frank Baum

This was quite the endeavor.  But I managed to read 14 stories written in classic 1900s style in 7 months which I'm going to consider a feat.  I probably could have finished it if 5-6 but since I was trying to read through them back to back I had to take weeks off to give my brain a break from the old language and the children's themes.

I think the stories themselves are lovely, and I especially loved reading the Author's Notes where L. Frank Baum actually took ideas from his readers who wrote him letters.  It's not only a way to show how times were different then but it also just kind of makes your heart happy to think of some little boy or girl wanting a certain character written into a story, and low and behold they're written in.

I think for the time, and for the audience, these are great stories.  They're interesting and adventurous and realistic (considering the use of magic throughout).  I'm not typically one to read "adventure" or "fantasy" genres but I still enjoyed these stories.  I will admit reading through character descriptions did get tedious, but again, I was reading these stories back to back whereas when they were being produced they were only being published once every few years! (Crazy to think about that as well!)

September 12, 2017 – Started Reading

September 15, 2017 – 

page 107

 

 5.96%

September 22, 2017 – 

page 238

 

 13.25%

September 28, 2017 – 

page 350

 

 19.49%

October 8, 2017 – 

page 471

 

 26.22%

October 14, 2017 – 

page 585

 

 32.57%

October 25, 2017 – 

page 738

 

 41.09%

January 24, 2018 – 

page 899

 

 50.06%

January 30, 2018 – 

page 1038

 

 57.8%

February 1, 2018 – 

page 1167

 

 64.98%

February 9, 2018 – 

page 1305

 

 72.66%

February 16, 2018 – 

page 1436

 

 79.96%

March 9, 2018 – 

page 1561

 

 86.92%

March 12, 2018 – 

page 1671

 

 93.04%

April 10, 2018 – Finished Reading

For the sake of curiosity (and record) I'm going to type out the lists found at the back of the book showing the original 14 canon stories, and all of the successors, as well as the "related" works of literature, and the list of movies:

Original 14 Canon by L. Frank Buam
1.  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
2.  The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
3.  Ozma of Oz (1907)
4.  Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908)
5.  The Road to Oz (1909)
6.  The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
7.  The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
8.  Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
9.  The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
10.  Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
11.  The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
12.  The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
13.  The Magic of Oz (1919)
14.  Glinda of Oz (1920)

Books by Ruth Plumly Thompson
15.  The Royal Book of Oz (1921)
16.  Kabumpo in Oz (1922)
17.  The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923)
18.  Grampa in Oz (1924)
19.  The Lost King of Oz (1925)
20.  The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926)
21.  The Gnome King of Oz (1927)
22.  The Giant Horse of Oz (1928)
23.  Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929)
24.  The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930)
25.  Pirates in Oz (1931)
26.  The Purple Prince of Oz (1932)
27.  Ojo in Oz (1933)
28.  Speedy in Oz (1934)
29.  The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935)
30.  Captain Salt in Oz (1936)
31.  Handy Mandy in Oz (1937)
32.  The Silver Princess in oz (1938)
33.  Ozplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)

Books by John R. Neill
34.  The Wonder City of Oz (1940)
35.  The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
36.  Lucky Bekcy in Oz (1942)

Books by Jack Snow
37.  The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946)
38.  The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949)

Books by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
39.  The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951)

Books by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
40.  Merry Go Round in Oz (1963)

Books by Sherwood Smith
41.  The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005)
42.  Trouble Under Oz (2006)
43.  Sky Pirates of Oz (TBA)


Oz Related Works

By L. Frank Baum
The Magical Monarch of Mo (1900)
American Fairy Tales (1901)
Dot and Tot of Merryland (1901)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904, newspaper comic)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Queen Zixi of Ix (1905)
John Dough and the Cherub (1906)
The Sea Fairies (1911)
Sky Island (1912)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, short stories)

Other "Royal Historians"
Yankee in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (1972)
The Enchanted Island of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (1976)
The Forbidden Fountain of Oz - Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren Lynn McGraw (1980)
The Wicked Witch of Oz - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1993)
The Runaway in Oz - John R. Neill (1995)
Percy and the Shrinking Violet - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1997)
Spots in Oz - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1997)
The Rundelstone of Oz - Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2001)

Inspired by Oz:  The Wicked Years
Wicked:  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995)
Son of a Witch (2005)
A Lion Among Men (2008)
Out of Oz (2011)


Oz on Flim

Film Adaptations
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908 multimedia presentation by L. Frank Baum)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 15-minute film based on stage musical by Otis Turner)
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914 adaptation by Baum that became the basis for the book The Scarecrow of Oz)
The Wizard of Oz (1921 film project directed by Ray C Smallwood, but never completed
Wizard of Oz (1925 film, directed by Larry Semon in collaboration with Frank Joslyn Baum)
The Land of Oz (1932 film, sequel to the Wizard of Oz)
The Wizard of Oz (1933 animated short directed by Ted Eshbaugh)
The Wizard of Oz (1939 musical film by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming)
Journey Back to Oz (1974 animated film, unofficial sequel to the 1939 film)
FantasiaE3 (1966 Spanish film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia, one segment is loosely based on The Wizard of Oz)
Aysecik ve Sihirli CYceler RYyalar tlkesinde (1971 Turkish film, directed by Tun Basaran known to bootleggers as "The Turkish Wizard of Oz"
Once Upon a Time (1976 film, loosely based upon, and also pays homage to The Wizard of Oz)
Oz (1976 Austrailian rock musical film, also known as Oz D A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie or 20th Century Oz)
The Wiz (1978 movie directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the Broadway musical of the same name)
Return to Oz (1985 film by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Walter Murch)
The Muppets' World of Oz (2005)
Apocalypse Oz (2006, short film parody of The Wizard of Oz and Apocalypse Now)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013 film by Walt Disney Pictures prequel to the 1939 film, directed by Sam Raimi)

Television Adaptations
The Land of Oz (1960 premier episode of The Shirley Temple Show, written by Frank Gabrielson and directed by William Corrigan.  William Asher produced)
Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961 animated series of short episodes based on the Oz characters from the book)
Off to See the Wizard (1967 television anthology series which showcased then-recent MGM family films)
Return to Oz (1964 animated television special sequel-cum-remake of the 1939 film, based on the artistic renderings of the characters in the 1961 animated series)
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz aka Dorothy in the Land of Oz (1980 animated television special)
A feature-length anime adaptation of the story was made by Toho in 1982 and was directed by Fumihiko Takayama, with music by Joe Hisaishi.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 anime adaptation of four of Baum's Oz books, consists of 52 episodes and follows the story of Dorothy and her adventures in Oz.  In 1987 HBO purchased rights to the series and dubbed/edited together key episodes of the series into a series of movies.)
The Wizard of Oz (1990-1991 an animated series based on the 1939 film, broadcast on ABC)
The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990, anime series involving Dorothy and the gang traveling to the "Galaxy of Oz", dubbed for American Release as The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz)
Sugar & Spice:  The Wizard of Oz (1991 animated adaptation, part of the Funky Fables series by Saban Entertainment)
The Wizard of Oz (1995 adaptation made for British television set in the present day)
The Oz Kids (1996 animated series by Hyperion Pictures and Nelvana featuring children of the original characters)
Adventures in the Emerald City (1999-2000 animated series directed by Alexander Makarov, Ilya Maximov and Denis Chernov)
Lost in Oz (2002 television pilot by Tim Burton, never broadcast, it is a sequel to the 1939 film)
In the Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest II", a retelling of the story is shown as a dream of Leela's with the cast of the show)
Tin Man (2007 Sci-fi Channel miniseries by RHI Entertainment, portrays a future version of Oz, thereby making the miniseries both a sequel and a re-imagining)
W krainie czarnoksiezniki Oza - Polish Television adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz was only broadcast in Poland
Ozenders - A Children in Need (episode of EastEnders)
2006 Episode of the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven titled "Soup to Nuts", Raven sees herself in a parody of The Wizard of Oz
The Witches of Oz (2011 television miniseries directed by Leigh Scott, based on the novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Magic of Oz by Baum)
In The Suite Life on Deck episode titled "Twister:  Part 2", Bailey has a dream based on The Wizard of Oz.
Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011 is a Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film)
Raising Hope "Bro-gurt" (2011)
Victorious (parody of The Wizard of Oz
Rugrats episode No Place Like Home
MADtv there are at least three parodies
Phineas and Ferb episode entitled "Wizard of Odd"

Stage Adaptations
The first musical version of the book was produced by Baum and Denslow in 1902, The Woggle-Bug (1905 and The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) both were panned as rehashes rather than sequels.
The Wizard of Oz (1942 musical using songs from the 1939 film)
Holiday on Ice (1959) included a condensed version of The Wizard of Oz
The Wiz (1975 musical exclusively featuring African American actors)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981 musical by Thomas W. Olson, Gary Briggle, and Richard Dworsky)
The Wizard of Oz (1987 - 1989 is an adaptation by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company based on the novel and 1939 film)
The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987 adaptation of the Oz story which serves as an AIDS education tool)
The Wizard of Oz Live (1989-1990 is an arena touring production in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary)
The Wizard of Oz in Concert:  Dreams Come True (1995 concert performance of a Royal Shakespeare Company's adaption at Lincoln Center)
The Wizard on ice (1995-1999 produced by Kenneth Feld)
The Wizard of Oz on Tour (1998 touring production of the 1987 RSC version that originally played in the Madison Square Garden theatre in may 1997)
Wicked (2003 - Present Broadway and West End musical based on the book Wicked:  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire)
Der Zauberer von Oz (2005 stage play)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000 Musical)
Dothy et Le Magicien d'Oz (2009 musical spectacular)
The Wizard of Oz (2011 West End musical building on the 1939 film songs and script with new materiel by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Oz - The Wonderful Wizard )2011 ballet by Italian choreographer Giorgio Madia)

Sam Reviews "Glinda of Oz" (Oz, #14)

The final book written by the original author, L. Frank Baum.  I feel like this was a pretty great closer.  It included a plethora of characters, and utilized all of the main and most powerful characters like Glinda, Ozma, and the Wizard.  The adventure was interesting and the conflict difficult to overcome, but all ended well as it should.  I also appreciate the fact that he left the story open ended, saying that the Land of Oz was so extensive that at the time of this book Ozma couldn't possibly be aware of all of the different people.  Which is why it makes sense other authors took this story onward into 29 more stories.  I'm not sure I'm in any rush to read further into this story, past L. Frank Baum's imagination, but I'm glad I did read these and had the experience of these truly classic style tales.

"If one were a fairy and knew the secret laws of nature and the mystic words and ceremonies that commanded those laws, then a simple wave of a silver wand would produce instantly all that men work hard and anxiously for through weary years.  And Dorothy wished in her kindly, innocent heart, that all men and women could be fairies with silver wands, and satisfy all their needs without so much work and worry, for then, she imagined, they would have all their working hours to be happy in."

"If everyone could wave a wand and have his wants fulfilled there would be little to wish for.  There would be no eager striving to obtain the difficult, for nothing would then be difficult, and the pleasure of earning something longed for, and only to be secured by hard work and careful thought, would be utterly lost.  There would be nothing to do you see, and no interest in life and in our fellow creatures.  That is all that makes life worth our while - to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves."

"I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at."

"No dishes, to wash, Ozma!  I guess you'd make a lot of folks happy if you could teach 'em just that one trick."

"Everybody here is a dictator of something or other.  They're all office holders.  That's what keeps them contended.  But I'm the Supreme Dictator of all, and I'm elected once a year.  This is a democracy, you know, where the people are allowed to vote for their rulers.  A good many others would like to be Supreme Dictator, but as I made a low that I am always to count the votes myself, I am always elected."

"In such a dilemma, nothing is gained by haste.  Careful thought may aid us, and so many the course of events.  The unexpected is always likely to happen, and cheerful patience is better than reckless action."

"The Patchwork Girl was very intelligent, but so full of fun and mad pranks that a lot of more stupid folks thought she must be crazy."

"The voice of a swan is always harsh and unpleasant."

The final moral of the original canon stories is:
"It is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be."