The Road to Oz

**Book 1 * Book 2 * Book 3 * Book 4**

I liked this book. It starts with Dorothy and Toto helping to direct a Shaggy Man down a road. He's trying to avoid a certain town, so he wants to avoid the road that leads past it. But they end up on a road that Dorothy doesn't recognize.

They meet a little boy named Button-Bright - his real name is an unknown through the entire book. Then, they meet Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. This unusual group of four find multiple adventures on the road to Oz.

There is a town of fox people. They give Button-Bright a fox head. Then it's the donkey town near by. They give the Shaggy Man a donkey head. This makes for some distressed traveling companions.

The Scoodlers were the creepiest part of this whole book. They have two fronts of different colors. They collect the traveling group and want to make them into soup. Just the whole bit was creepy.

There are a few more adventures, but eventually they end up in Oz just in time for Ozma's birthday celebration.

I really preferred the adventure part of the book to the little birthday celebration part of the book. Maybe it was because the birthday celebration was put in there because it provided an final destination to their travels down this unusual road.