In the book, The Wizard of Oz, What colour were Dorothy’s shoes that she got from the wicked witch?

The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as heroine Dorothy Gale's transport home. They are originally owned by the Wicked Witch of the East but passed to Dorothy when her house lands on the Witch. As gathered from the clues throughout the various books and films, the Silver Shoes will only pass to a new owner if they have physically defeated the previous owner, or the previous owner willingly hands them over.

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Jack Kircher

I never read the book either, but knew the shoes were RUBY red in the movie but when I saw a movie on the author's life,"The Dreamer of Oz," staring John Ritter, I found out that in the BOOK, the shoes were called "silver slippers." Natasha Marquis is RIGHT!

Paula Graham

Actully I never read the book, so I can only remember the color was red, and the pair was in the movie. The movie was based on the book.

Josephine White

Well I accidentally hit silver and I was right I was thinking red

Richard J. Majewski

The shoes were RED, Emeral.

LaVerne Jones

In the book they were silver, duh But I thought of the movie and didn't follow my first mind and said red for Ruby Slippers. Good one, lol

Natasha Marquis

Because you never read the book, just watched the movie

Meredith Erin

I thought it had to be a trick question....only because it was to easy ..we all know them to be red....but we were all wrong!

Lawrence McFarland-Groves

In the book they were silver, but when the 1939 movie was made, the shoes were presented in Ruby red because they would be more dreamt in Techicolor.

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Helen Mallazzo

They were red in the movie. Remember the "ruby slippers"? This in a way is a trick question because the question reads, In the book. That's where they get you. In the book the shoes were silver.