In the bestselling tradition of Everything I have to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a wise and inspiring collection of life lessons drawn in one of the very most beloved movies of all time: The Wizard of Oz.

After an eternity in book publishing, Peter Guzzardi had edited an extraordinary band of diverse authors, from Stephen Hawking to Deepak Chopra, from Carol Burnett to Douglas Adams, from Byron Katie to Geneen Roth. However everything he’d discovered from dealing with them experienced oddly familiar. One day it about The Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons From Within the Rainbow abruptly became clear: everything that wisdom acquired its roots within a film he’d viewed as a child, “The Wizard of Oz.”

That revelation led to this book. It’s a jewel package of insights attracted from Dorothy’s heroic trip from helpless in Kansas to effective in Oz, then back to Kansas, transformed by what she found on the way. In Emeralds of Oz: Lifestyle Lessons From Within the Rainbow, we uncover what the most-watched film ever sold has to educate us. With that knowledge we become absolve to embark on our own trip, having activated the power to direct our lives that we possessed all along.