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Toto plays a central role in several critical points: he runs away at the beginning and end of the book and Dorothy changes plans to catch him; he pulls away the curtain to reveal the Wizard is a fake. Scholar Keri Weil analyzes the role: It's simply told really, as always by Morpurgo, no literary flourishes, but this, while predictable, makes it an accessible book for listeners and readers alike, the author is never threatening.

Coming down with a crash in the mysterious land of Oz, the pair meet a series of extraordinary characters: a scarecrow who believes he has no brains, a tin man without a heart, and a cowardly lion who may not be as cowardly as he thinks he is. The kiss with the frog isn’t in the original — the princess throws the frog against a wall! In other more modern tellings, the transformation is with the famous kiss — perhaps inspired by Sleeping Beauty or similar fairytale tropes. So we took the idea of the kiss, and made the story about the frog. In our tale, there are three princesses, none of them very forthcoming. But kindness wins the day in the guise of a handsome prince — who offers the famous (consensual) kiss. Toto is the driving force behind Frank Baum’s narrative because it is Dorothy’s love for the dog that leads her to run away and escape the dreary moral landscape of Kansas and its arbiter, Miss Gulch. “It was Toto who made Dorothy laugh and saved her from growing as grey as her surroundings,” wrote Baum in the original version of the story. [1] Later works [ edit ]

This is Morpurgo's rewriting of The Wizard of Oz, quite closely, but written from the dog's perspective. He bookends the tale of Oz with Toto's puppy listening to him telling the tale as a bedtime story, which works nicely as the youngsters interject and you are reminded that it is a tale being told. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. Furthermore the author throws in the fact that Toto mentions the smell of hedgehogs although being a Kansan dog and one that probably has never been out of country he wouldn't know what type of animal that is. Furthermore even if he hasn't lived his whole life out on the Kansan plains than he may have met the porcupine, which isn't even remotely related to the hedgehog either.

Which off on a tangent just brings me to an interesting question of my own about mixed marriages of Oz characters and how their children may appear. Must chase this down later. Toto The Wizard Of Oz as told by the dog by Michael Morpurgo is a delightful children’s tale about the familiar Wizard Of Oz but as seen by Toto. It is refreshingly unique. First of all the book starts off basically as a cute retelling where Toto has become a dad thus is trying to put the rascally pups asleep since he is watching them. This is one of those points that parents and non-parents would understand what is going on although it also gives me a bit of red light as to why he doesn't want to have fun with the pups or take them out exploring but instead automatically tries to dodge responsibilities by putting them to sleep. Toto belongs to Dorothy Gale, the heroine of the first and many subsequent books. In the first book, he never spoke, although other animals, native to Oz, did. In subsequent books, other animals gained the ability to speak upon reaching Oz or similar lands, but he remained speechless. In Tik-Tok of Oz, continuity is restored: he reveals that he is able to talk, just like other animals in the Land of Oz, and simply chooses not to. In The Lost Princess of Oz, he often talks continuously. Other major appearances include The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Grampa in Oz and The Magical Mimics in Oz, in which he is the first to recognize the Mimics.You co-wrote and co-illustrated The Frog's Kiss (published 11th May 2023, Scholastic UK ). What were the challenges? Did you have any disagreements about aspects such as style of illustrations and use of language? But what they find might surprise them. And on the way, all of them will learn that what they think they are missing might have been there, all along…

On July 12, 2018, it was announced that Warner Animation Group will produce an animated movie about Toto. It will be based on the children's book Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz. [4] The film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on February 2, 2024 in the United States. [5] On April 5, 2023, it was taken off the release schedule with Alto Knights taking over its original release date. [6]There is a local legend of a super-strong wildcat, destined to raise an army and take over all of Scotland. Toto knows she must find out more, but danger is lurking at every turn. Can she find the mysterious wildcat, before it's too late? Starting in 1995、 TOTO Publishing has been producing books in conjunction with the exhibitions of TOTO GALLERY·MA to widely convey the ideas and values of both domestic- and foreign-based architects and designers. TOTO Publishing is also contributing to the development and transmission of architectural culture by being one of the few publishers continuing to produce monographs of domestic and foreign architects、 such as Luis Barragan (1992)、 or the more recent Tadao Ando series (5 volumes、 2007–2015) and STUDIO MUMBAI: Praxis (2012). Toto is a German Shepherd in NBC's television series Emerald City. Initially a police dog that was in the police car Dorothy retreated to during the initial tornado that sent her to Oz, he is subsequently "adopted" by her in her journey through Oz. His name in Kansas is unknown, but he is named by Dorothy after the Munja'kin word for "dog". A lot of credit also goes to the excellent illustrator Emma Chinchester Clark. Her beautiful illustrations bring the book to life. It’s a book that is a real joy to hold in your hands and pore over. The lively illustrations combined with the intimate narration make this book especially suited to shared reading aloud. Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's Oz series of children's books, and works derived from them. His name is pronounced with a long "O", a homophone of "toe toe". He was originally a small terrier drawn by W. W. Denslow for the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). He reappears in numerous adaptations, such as The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz (1978).

Otherwise addition of the brightly colored illustrations allows young readers to get into the book although again without the purist form of the book. The Kansas homestead is shown in color, which is a first for many tellings from Oz. There were one or two illustration details that were off to me such as the Witch of the North being dressed as a Munchkin. Otherwise the illustrator seems to have a bit of Baum since the illustrations weren't consistent such as the Munchkins seemed to be presented as people with real skin complexions while those who live in the Emerald City and the Winkies tend to have the skin tones consisting of the location where they come from (respectively green and yellow). In the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man, he is portrayed as a shape-shifting human. He was originally the tutor of DG and her sister, and his name of "Toto" came from DG's childhood inability to say "Tutor". He was played by Blu Mankuma.

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Ich liebe Kinderbuch-Klassiker über alles und der „Der Zauberer von Oz“ zählt auf jeden Fall zu meinen absoluten Lieblingen. Als ich nun hörte, dass im Woow Books Verlag eine Neuerzählung dieses märchenhaften Klassikers erschienen ist, geschrieben aus der Perspektive des Hundes Toto, stand für mich natürlich sofort fest: Das Buch muss ich unbedingt lesen! Ich ließ es daher nur zu gerne bei mir einziehen. D'Alessandro, Anthony (2023-04-05). " 'Aquaman 2' Shifts Five Days Earlier, Warner Bros Dates 'The Wise Guys', 'Minecraft' ". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 5, 2023 . Retrieved 2023-04-05.

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