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    Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
    Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
    Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
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    Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz

    Written by Michael Morpurgo

    Narrated by Christopher Ragland

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    About this audiobook

    From master storyteller MICHAEL MORPURGO comes a surprising, charming and uplifting twist on The Wizard of Oz, told by a very special and unforgettable character: Dorothy’s pet dog, Toto. A perfect, collectible gift for all children (and children at heart).

    “I was there,” Papa Toto said, and those magic words sent shivers down my spine. It was going to be the Wizard story. “Dorothy and me were both there.”
    We were all silent, snuggled up together, waiting, waiting.
    Then Papa Toto began…

    When a twister descends on their Kansas farm, Toto and his owner Dorothy hide in the house – only to be plucked into the air and whisked away!

    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.

    But Toto and Dorothy are desperate to return home – after all, home is home, and home is best! So they set off with their new friends on a journey down the yellow brick road to find the only person who might be able to help them: the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

    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…

    An unforgettable telling of a classic story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 7, 2017
    ISBN9780008134679
    Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
    Author

    Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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