From the back cover:

"Every now and then a new child-at-heart comes along to redraw the map...to whistle up the cyclone or call down the rainstorm that will carry us for a short time to Oz...where the dangers are great but are noble rather than debased. Where loyalty and quick-thinking and courage still count for much.

"I did not know Mr. Shanower's work before I came to this new tale of Oz, but it is clear from the first that his heart is pure and his pen is sure.

I commend Mr. Shanower to you, and I commend his work as being fully and truly in the mainstream of ozmopolitan literature."

-Harlan Ellison