World classic, retold in simple Mandarin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
绿野仙踪
What if the brains, the heart and the courage you're looking for were yours all along? A Kansas girl, a scarecrow, a tin man and a frightened lion walk the Yellow Brick Road to a wizard nobody has ever seen.
Meet the voices
- Narrator · 旁白 — The warm storyteller who sets the scene.
- Dorothy · 多萝西 — A kind, brave farm girl from Kansas who only wants to go home.
- Toto · 托托 — Dorothy's small black dog and loyal friend.
- Aunt Em · 艾姆婶婶 — Dorothy's tired, loving aunt on the Kansas farm.
- Uncle Henry · 亨利叔叔 — Dorothy's uncle, a hard-working farmer who never laughs and rarely speaks.
- Good Witch of the North · 北方女巫 — A tiny, smiling witch who welcomes Dorothy to Oz.
- Scarecrow · 稻草人 — A floppy straw man who wishes for a brain.
- Tin Woodman · 铁皮人 — A kind tin man who wishes for a heart.
- Cowardly Lion · 狮子 — A big lion who is afraid of everything.
- Queen of the Field Mice · 老鼠女王 — A little gray field mouse saved from a wildcat by the Tin Woodman.
- Gatekeeper · 看门人 — The gruff guard at the Emerald City gate.
- Soldier with the Green Whiskers · 绿胡子 — The palace soldier of the Emerald City.
- Wizard of Oz · 奥兹 — The great Wizard, who is not what he seems.
- Witch of the West · 西方女巫 — A wicked one-eyed witch who wants the silver shoes.
- King of the Winged Monkeys · 飞猴王 — Leader of the Winged Monkeys, who must obey whoever owns the Golden Cap three times.
- China Princess · 瓷公主 — A tiny china princess in the China Country who is afraid of breaking.
- Glinda · 格琳达 — The kind Good Witch of the South.
25 chapters in 5 parts
Part 1: The Big Wind 大风
Chapter 1: A Home with No Color
没有颜色的家
On a gray Kansas farm, only her little dog Toto can make Dorothy laugh. Then a big wind comes roaring out of the north.
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Chapter 2: The Big Wind
大风来了
The big wind carries Dorothy's house up into the sky. When it comes down, a little old woman thanks her for something she never did.
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Chapter 3: Silver Shoes
银鞋
A good witch gives Dorothy a pair of silver shoes, a kiss and a road to follow. But nobody in the land knows what magic the shoes hold.
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Chapter 4: The Straw Man
稻草人
On the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy meets a cheerful scarecrow who wants brains more than anything, and the road leads into a dark forest.
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Chapter 5: The Tin Man and the Lion
铁皮人和狮子
Deep in the forest, Dorothy and the Scarecrow find a man made of tin who hasn't moved for a whole year. But something much bigger is waiting among the trees.
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Part 2: Friends on the Road 路上的朋友
Chapter 6: Afraid of Everything
什么都怕
Dorothy stands up to the huge lion who leapt at Toto and finds out what kind of lion he really is. But a tiny accident on the road leaves a friend in trouble.
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Chapter 7: Under the Big Tree
大树下
Night in the forest: a fire the Scarecrow won't go near, a supper the Lion won't talk about, and in the morning a problem nobody knows how to solve.
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Chapter 8: The Big Ditch
大沟
The Lion has a way across the first ditch, and the Scarecrow has an idea for the second. But in the darkest part of the forest, something is listening.
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Chapter 9: The Tiger-Bears
虎头熊
With two tiger-bears on the bridge, the friends need a clever idea fast. Then come a wide river, a homemade raft and a current that won't let go.
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Chapter 10: Red Flowers
红花
Can anyone reach the Scarecrow in the middle of the river? And past the riverbank lies a field of sweet red flowers, far more dangerous than it looks.
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Part 3: The Green City 绿色的城
Chapter 11: The Mouse Queen
老鼠女王
By the river, Dorothy sleeps on while the Lion lies among the deadly red flowers. Then a tiny mouse runs for her life, and the Scarecrow gets an idea.
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Chapter 12: The Lion Wakes Up
狮子醒了
Thousands of tiny mice, one very heavy lion and a field of sleepy flowers. Then the road turns green, and strangers whisper about a wizard nobody has ever seen.
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Chapter 13: The Green City
翡翠城
A gate of green jewels, a gruff Gatekeeper and a box of green glasses. Inside the Emerald City everything is green, and Oz will see only one visitor a day.
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Chapter 14: Four Faces
四个样子
Alone in a room of green jewels, Dorothy meets the great Oz at last. But Oz never looks the same twice, and every face he shows asks for the same hard thing.
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Chapter 15: A Hard Job
很难的事
Nobody wants to kill anyone, but there is no other way home. So the friends set off into the empty West, where someone with one far-seeing eye is watching.
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Part 4: The Witch of the West 西方的女巫
Chapter 16: The Witch of the West
西方女巫
In the night, forty wolves come for the sleeping friends. Then crows, then bees: the Wicked Witch of the West has a long list of tricks, and one more up her sleeve.
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Chapter 17: The Winged Monkeys
飞猴
The sky goes dark with wings. One by one the friends are carried off, until the Winged Monkeys reach Dorothy and suddenly stop.
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Chapter 18: In the Witch's Castle
女巫的城堡
In the witch's castle, Dorothy scrubs floors by day and sneaks food to the Lion by night. But the witch has a plan for those silver shoes.
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Chapter 19: A Bucket of Water
一桶水
Dorothy has lost a shoe and lost her temper, and there is a bucket of water at her feet. What happens next sets a whole country free.
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Chapter 20: The Golden Cap
金帽子
Lost in the yellow fields, the friends try the strange words inside the Golden Cap. Back in the Emerald City, though, the great Oz keeps them waiting.
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Part 5: The Way Home 回家的路
Chapter 21: Behind the Screen
屏风后边
Behind the fallen screen stands a frightened little old man. Who is he, and what has he been hiding from everyone in the Emerald City?
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Chapter 22: Brains, a Heart and Courage
脑子、心和勇气
Oz keeps his promises to the three friends in his own very odd way. Then he whispers a plan to Dorothy: could it really take her home?
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Chapter 23: The Balloon
热气球
The green balloon is ready, the whole city is watching, and Dorothy is about to fly home with Oz. Then Toto sees a kitten.
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Chapter 24: The China Country
瓷国
On the road south the friends climb a white wall into a tiny, breakable country, and then the Lion faces a monster all on his own.
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Chapter 25: Home Again
回家了
Dorothy stands before Glinda at last. Can the Good Witch of the South do what Oz could not, and send her home to Aunt Em?
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Behind the story
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel by the American writer L. Frank Baum, published in Chicago in 1900 with pictures by W. W. Denslow. A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and to get home she walks the road of yellow brick to the Emerald City with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion.
This graded adaptation follows the events of Baum's book closely over 25 chapters, from the cyclone to Dorothy's return to Kansas. In China the book is known as 绿野仙踪.
Did you know?
- In Baum's book Dorothy's magic shoes are silver. The ruby slippers came later, in the 1939 film.
- The Emerald City looks green because the Guardian of the Gates locks green glasses onto everyone who enters.
- Baum wrote thirteen more Oz books after this one, starting with The Marvelous Land of Oz in 1904.