emerald

This all started when i watched a program on judy garland, who played dorothy in the wizard of oz, and i remembered my favorite childhood book - The Emerald City of Oz. I don't know how many times I checked this out from the library (the old building :)) and read it over and over. The reason why this was my favorite book out of the Oz series (yes there is more than just wizard of oz --- there are like 14 books...) was because this book had green glitter on the picture plate pages!

During the program i hopped on amazon to find my childhood book and i found it! it promised metallic green ink as in the original book. i also bought the patchwork girl of oz which is the 7th book (emerald city of oz is the 6th). i plan on buying the whole series one day :) i waited anxiously while it was slowly shipped to me and when i got it it had metallic green ink -- but no glitter. i was so disappointed but once i started reading it the magic of Oz came back to me.

Then mom had the marvelous idea of going back to the library and seeing if they still owned the green glitter book and they did :)