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...has anyone read it? What do you think of it?

One of my favorite childhood books!

Many aspects still haunt me, and took various different meaning as I grew up. It hooked me and moved me when I read it, it still accompanies me now.

So, I think good of it. It's an extremely rich novel.

I'm not certain I could even have told you it was a book, and I'm only vaguely aware of the Wolfgang Petersen film (I was trying to think just now if I'd ever seen it, and realized that the film which was playing out in my mind's eye was actually Disney's Return to Oz - I'm obviously getting interference on that channel tonight).

From looking at Wikipedia, the novel came out in German in 1979, and presumably a bit after that in English, but either way it was well past my child-hood reading, and wasn't ever set as a text at University (although anything would have been better than having to slog through Washington Square...), so it has by-passed me without leaving much of a trace...

Update: I looked in a children's bookshop this afternoon while I was passing, and the copy that they had said it was translated into English and published in the US in 1983, and then in the UK in 1984 - far too late for me to have any childhood memories of it.
I noticed in the Wikipedia article that they referenced a series of sequels, which was meant to be a sequence of 12 tales; these seem to have stalled at the half way mark, and haven't made it into English (actually it would be fairer to say that they have been translated into very few languages).