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Bonjour, je m'appelle Finn et je vais t'aider à comprendre ce livre.
Le voici, expliqué comme si tu avais 10 ans :
Une tornade dépose la maison de Dorothy dans le pays d'Oz, et elle suit une route de briques jaunes pour demander à un grand magicien comment rentrer au Kansas. En chemin, elle recueille un épouvantail qui veut un cerveau, un homme de fer-blanc qui veut un cœur et un lion qui veut du courage, et tous les trois ont déjà bien plus de ces choses qu'ils ne le croient.
Le livre complet se lit en anglais. Voici tous les chapitres :
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Having this thought in mind, the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.