The Wizard of Oz

I finished The Wizard of Oz and I was actually very suprised. The book is about a girl named Dorothy who is caught in a cyclone and ends up in The Land of Oz. She wants to find her way back home and must follow the yellow brick road to The Emerald City where she finds Oz to see if he can grant her wish. She also finds friends along the way that go with her to have theirs wished granted; they are the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion. One reason I wanted to read this book was because I wanted to see how different it was from the movie. In the book they do find out The Great Oz is just an old man and he leaves in a hot air balloon without Dorothy on accident, like in the movie. Whats different is that Dorothy travels to the Land of the Quadlings to find the Good Witch of the South instead of the the Good Witch of the North appearing. Also in the book there is a Golden Cap which grants any three wishes to the owner. This cap is what the Wicked Witch of the West uses to call the Winged Monkeys to destroy Dorothy and her friends. I enjoyed reading this book, but one thing that I wonder about it why the author never stated Dorothy's age and I wonder if that would have made a difference in the book.