I find these Oz books by Oz creator L. Frank Baum to be charming and cozy. The Road to Oz is a journey story which starts out with Dorothy lost in Kansas. The roads seem scrambled so she is unable to get home. She meets the Shaggy Man with his "love magnet," as well as several other new eccentric characters. As the travel, they discover they have entered fairyland and seem to be heading in the direction of Oz on foot. There is light danger along the way, but no main villain or conflict. The worst thing that happens to anybody is a temporary head transformation, one character gets a donkey head, another gets a fox head. The Scoodlers who remove their own heads and throw them to attack were a bit threatening, but easily defeated. Once the travelers arrive in Oz, the story devolves into a trotting out of familiar characters (Tin Man, Scarecrow, Ozma) and a few new introductions. Basically Ozma's birthday celebration takes up the final few chapters. The only thing I really enjoyed in that last segment was Santa Clause showing up for the festivities. Really!