Wicked Years

The Wicked Years is a series of books written by an American author of literature & fiction, children’s books and science fiction and fantasy novels Gregory Maguire. The novels present an analysis or a revisionist takes on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum’, it’s 1939 film adaptations and the related books. This is a different look at Oz as is seen in the novels by L. Frank Baum or in the movies. Unlike the original books, these novels are not intended for reading by children. This Wizard of Oz is bedeviled with plenty of social problems like racial tensions between people of different ethnic groups, discrimination against sentient animals referred to as animals in the book.