Books by L. Frank Baum
Born: 05/15/1856; Died: 05/06/1919L. Frank Baum Biography & Notes
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856- May 6, 1919) was an American author, philatelist, and the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Frank was born in Chittenango, New York, into a Protestant family of German origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.
Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Frank grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise. As a young child Frank was tutored at home with his siblings, but at the age of 12 he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. Frank was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, following an incident described as a heart attack, he was allowed to return home.
Frank started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. His father bought him a cheap printing press, and Frank used it to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal with the help of his younger brother, Harry Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close. The brothers published several issues of the journal and were even able to sell ads. By the time he was 17, Baum had established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with his friends.
At about the same time Frank embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with theater and the performing arts, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy. His first such failure occurred at age 18, when a local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes, with the promise of leading roles that never came his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre-temporarily-and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse.
At the age of 20, Baum took on a new vocation: the breeding of fancy poultry, which was a national craze at the time. He specialized in raising a particular breed of fowl, the Hamburg chicken. In 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.
Yet Baum could never stay away from the stage long. He continued to take roles in plays, performing under the stage names of Louis F. Baum and George Brooks.
In 1880 his father made him manager of a string of theaters that he owned, and Baum set about writing plays and gathering a company to act in them. The Maid of Arran, a melodrama based on William Blacks' novel A Princess of Thule, proved a great success. Baum not only wrote the play but composed songs for it, and acted in the leading role.
On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a then famous women's suffrage activist.
The South Dakota years
In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he opened a store, "Baum's Bazaar". His habit of giving out wares on credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store, so Baum turned to editing a local newspaper, The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, where he wrote a famous column, Our Landlady. Baum's description of Kansas in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is based on his experiences in drought-ridden South Dakota.
After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post. For several years he edited a magazine for advertising agencies focused on window displays in stores. The major department stores created elaborate Christmas time fantasies, using clockwork mechanism that made it seem that people were moving.
Children thought it was magic, and adults wondered if there was not a man behind the curtain pulling the levers. In 1897 he wrote and published Mother Goose in Prose a collection of Mother Goose rhymes written as prose stories, and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Mother Goose was a moderate success, and allowed Baum to quit his door-to-door job.
In 1899 Baum partnered with illustrator W. W. Denslow, to publish Father Goose: His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry. The book was a success, becoming the best selling children's book of the year.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum and Denslow were deeply involved in both the politics of the 1890s and the images that were used. Drawing on this experience they constructed a "modern fairy tale". In 1900, Baum and Denslow (with whom he shared the copyright) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical and financial acclaim. The book was the bestselling children's book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen other novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz. The book was heavily influenced by landmarks in Holland, Michigan where he would stay with his great-grandfather. In fact, the Yellow Brick Road was named after winding cobblestone roads in that town.
Two years after Wizard's publication, Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the book. It ran on Broadway 293 stage nights from 1902 to 1911, and also successfully toured the United States. The stage version starred Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame at the time. The stage version differed quite a bit from the book, and was aimed primarily at adults. Toto was replaced with Imogene the Cow, and Tryxie Tryfle, a waitress and Pastoria, a streetcar operator were added as fellow cyclone victims. Baum had the actors make explicit reference to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.
Later life and work
With the success of Wizard, Baum and Denslow hoped lightning would strike a third time and in 1901 published Dot and Tot of Merryland. The book was one of Baum's weakest, and its failure further strained his faltering relationship with Denslow. It would be their last collaboration.
Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix. However, persuaded by popular demand, letters from children, and the failure of his new books, he returned to the series each time. All of his novels have fallen into public domain in most jurisdictions, and many are available through Project Gutenberg.
His final book, Glinda of Oz was published a year after his death in 1920 but the Oz series was continued long after his death by other authors, notably Ruth Plumly Thompson, who wrote an additional nineteen Oz books.
Baum made use of several pseudonyms for some of his other, non-Oz books. They include:
* Edith Van Dyne (the Aunt Jane's Nieces series)
* Laura Bancroft (Twinkle and Chubbins, Policeman Bluejay)
* Floyd Akers (the Sam Steele series)
* Suzanne Metcalf (Annabel)
* Schuyler Staunton (Daughters of Destiny)
* John Estes Cooke
* Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald
Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.
Baum died on May 6, 1919, aged 63, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
Baum's beliefs
Politics
During the events leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote a racist editorial for the Saturday Pioneer stating that the Native Americans (whom he described as "whining curs" in sharp contrast to the opening lines of the same editorial in which he speaks respectfully of Sitting Bull and expressed contempt for the behavior of white men toward him*) should be completely annihilated.
A contradictory opinion points out that his overall writing is remarkably inclusive and his characters diverse; though vocabulary was racist by today's standards, he did, at least, acknowledge Americans of non-European ancestry. And much of his writing, such as the short story, The Enchanted Buffalo, which purports to be a Native American fable, speaks with utmost respect for tribal peoples. It is unfortunate that these two short editorials, written when he was ill and the community was living in terror, continue to haunt his legacy.
* [Sitting Bull] was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies. The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished..."
Was the Wizard of Oz a political allegory?
In 1964, a high school history teacher named Henry Littlefield published an article in the journal American Quarterly analyzing characters and elements in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as metaphors for political figures and events of the 1890s, in particular the Populist movement and debates over the gold standard. Many scholars, economists and historians have expanded on Littlefield's interpretation ever since, pointing to multiple similarities between the characters (especially as depicted in Denslow's illustrations) and stock figures from editorial cartoons of the period. Baum had been a political editor in the 1890s, and Denslow was an editorial cartoonist as well as an illustrator of children's books.
Baum inserted a series of political references into the 1902 stage version, such as references by name to the President and a powerful senator, and to John D. Rockefeller for providing the oil needed by the Tin Woodman. Scholars have found few political references in Baum's Oz books after 1902. When Baum himself was asked whether his stories had hidden meanings, he always replied that they were written to please children and generate an income for his family. As a staunch Republican and avid supporter of Women's Suffrage, Baum personally did not support the political ideals of either the Populist movement of 1890-92 or the Bryanite-silver movement of 1896-1900. He published a poem in support of William McKinley.
Whether this invalidates the political interpretation or not depends in part on the reader's attitude towards authorial intent and what literary critics have termed the intentional fallacy.
Most fans of the Oz books reject any political interpretation. Since lovers of Baum's fantasy and students of America in the 1890s approach the text with different intentions, it is perhaps not surprising that they come to different interpretations.
Frank was born in Chittenango, New York, into a Protestant family of German origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.
Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Frank grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise. As a young child Frank was tutored at home with his siblings, but at the age of 12 he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. Frank was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, following an incident described as a heart attack, he was allowed to return home.
Frank started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. His father bought him a cheap printing press, and Frank used it to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal with the help of his younger brother, Harry Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close. The brothers published several issues of the journal and were even able to sell ads. By the time he was 17, Baum had established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with his friends.
At about the same time Frank embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with theater and the performing arts, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy. His first such failure occurred at age 18, when a local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes, with the promise of leading roles that never came his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre-temporarily-and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse.
At the age of 20, Baum took on a new vocation: the breeding of fancy poultry, which was a national craze at the time. He specialized in raising a particular breed of fowl, the Hamburg chicken. In 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.
Yet Baum could never stay away from the stage long. He continued to take roles in plays, performing under the stage names of Louis F. Baum and George Brooks.
In 1880 his father made him manager of a string of theaters that he owned, and Baum set about writing plays and gathering a company to act in them. The Maid of Arran, a melodrama based on William Blacks' novel A Princess of Thule, proved a great success. Baum not only wrote the play but composed songs for it, and acted in the leading role.
On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a then famous women's suffrage activist.
The South Dakota years
In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he opened a store, "Baum's Bazaar". His habit of giving out wares on credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store, so Baum turned to editing a local newspaper, The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, where he wrote a famous column, Our Landlady. Baum's description of Kansas in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is based on his experiences in drought-ridden South Dakota.
After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post. For several years he edited a magazine for advertising agencies focused on window displays in stores. The major department stores created elaborate Christmas time fantasies, using clockwork mechanism that made it seem that people were moving.
Children thought it was magic, and adults wondered if there was not a man behind the curtain pulling the levers. In 1897 he wrote and published Mother Goose in Prose a collection of Mother Goose rhymes written as prose stories, and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Mother Goose was a moderate success, and allowed Baum to quit his door-to-door job.
In 1899 Baum partnered with illustrator W. W. Denslow, to publish Father Goose: His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry. The book was a success, becoming the best selling children's book of the year.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum and Denslow were deeply involved in both the politics of the 1890s and the images that were used. Drawing on this experience they constructed a "modern fairy tale". In 1900, Baum and Denslow (with whom he shared the copyright) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical and financial acclaim. The book was the bestselling children's book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen other novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz. The book was heavily influenced by landmarks in Holland, Michigan where he would stay with his great-grandfather. In fact, the Yellow Brick Road was named after winding cobblestone roads in that town.
Two years after Wizard's publication, Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the book. It ran on Broadway 293 stage nights from 1902 to 1911, and also successfully toured the United States. The stage version starred Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame at the time. The stage version differed quite a bit from the book, and was aimed primarily at adults. Toto was replaced with Imogene the Cow, and Tryxie Tryfle, a waitress and Pastoria, a streetcar operator were added as fellow cyclone victims. Baum had the actors make explicit reference to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.
Later life and work
With the success of Wizard, Baum and Denslow hoped lightning would strike a third time and in 1901 published Dot and Tot of Merryland. The book was one of Baum's weakest, and its failure further strained his faltering relationship with Denslow. It would be their last collaboration.
Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix. However, persuaded by popular demand, letters from children, and the failure of his new books, he returned to the series each time. All of his novels have fallen into public domain in most jurisdictions, and many are available through Project Gutenberg.
His final book, Glinda of Oz was published a year after his death in 1920 but the Oz series was continued long after his death by other authors, notably Ruth Plumly Thompson, who wrote an additional nineteen Oz books.
Baum made use of several pseudonyms for some of his other, non-Oz books. They include:
* Edith Van Dyne (the Aunt Jane's Nieces series)
* Laura Bancroft (Twinkle and Chubbins, Policeman Bluejay)
* Floyd Akers (the Sam Steele series)
* Suzanne Metcalf (Annabel)
* Schuyler Staunton (Daughters of Destiny)
* John Estes Cooke
* Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald
Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.
Baum died on May 6, 1919, aged 63, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
Baum's beliefs
Politics
During the events leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote a racist editorial for the Saturday Pioneer stating that the Native Americans (whom he described as "whining curs" in sharp contrast to the opening lines of the same editorial in which he speaks respectfully of Sitting Bull and expressed contempt for the behavior of white men toward him*) should be completely annihilated.
A contradictory opinion points out that his overall writing is remarkably inclusive and his characters diverse; though vocabulary was racist by today's standards, he did, at least, acknowledge Americans of non-European ancestry. And much of his writing, such as the short story, The Enchanted Buffalo, which purports to be a Native American fable, speaks with utmost respect for tribal peoples. It is unfortunate that these two short editorials, written when he was ill and the community was living in terror, continue to haunt his legacy.
* [Sitting Bull] was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies. The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished..."
Was the Wizard of Oz a political allegory?
In 1964, a high school history teacher named Henry Littlefield published an article in the journal American Quarterly analyzing characters and elements in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as metaphors for political figures and events of the 1890s, in particular the Populist movement and debates over the gold standard. Many scholars, economists and historians have expanded on Littlefield's interpretation ever since, pointing to multiple similarities between the characters (especially as depicted in Denslow's illustrations) and stock figures from editorial cartoons of the period. Baum had been a political editor in the 1890s, and Denslow was an editorial cartoonist as well as an illustrator of children's books.
Baum inserted a series of political references into the 1902 stage version, such as references by name to the President and a powerful senator, and to John D. Rockefeller for providing the oil needed by the Tin Woodman. Scholars have found few political references in Baum's Oz books after 1902. When Baum himself was asked whether his stories had hidden meanings, he always replied that they were written to please children and generate an income for his family. As a staunch Republican and avid supporter of Women's Suffrage, Baum personally did not support the political ideals of either the Populist movement of 1890-92 or the Bryanite-silver movement of 1896-1900. He published a poem in support of William McKinley.
Whether this invalidates the political interpretation or not depends in part on the reader's attitude towards authorial intent and what literary critics have termed the intentional fallacy.
Most fans of the Oz books reject any political interpretation. Since lovers of Baum's fantasy and students of America in the 1890s approach the text with different intentions, it is perhaps not surprising that they come to different interpretations.
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Alice in Wonderland/the Wizard of Oz by Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum ( 2001) |
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Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Or, I Can't Eat Goat Head A Play in One Act by Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Silvia Gonzalez S. ( 1996) |
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Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Or, I Can't Eat Goat Head A Play in Two Acts by Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Silvia Gonzalez S. ( 1996) |
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American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum ( 1978)
Young cowboy lassoes Father Time, dummy in Mr. Floman's department store window comes to life; and 10 other fairy tales.
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Animal Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum ( 1989) |
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Annotated Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Michael Patrick Hearn, W. W. Denslow, L. Frank Baum ( 2000)
A beloved classic comes to life with this beautifully illustrated annotated edition on the 100th anniversary of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the quintessential American fairy tale, but also one of the most controversial children's books ever published. Michael Patrick Hearn, the world's leading Oz scholar, provides a spellbinding annotated edition that illuminates all of Oz's numerous contemporary references, provides fascinating character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word "Oz." A facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition appears with the original drawings by W. W. Denslow--scrupulously reproduced to mimic their correct colors, using a different color for each region of Oz--as well as twenty-five previously unpublished illustrations. In addition, Hearn provides an extensive bibliography, compiling Baum's published work, every notable Oz edition, and the stage and motion-picture productions from 1939's The Wizard of Oz to the 1974 Broadway smash The Wiz. The result is a classic to rival Baum's own, and a book no family's library can do without. 90 black-and-white, 56 color, and two-color illustrations throughout.
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Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank Baum, Edith Van Dyne ( 2005) |
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Best of Children's Stories Just So Stories/Through the Looking Glass/the Tale of Peter Rabbit/the Patchwork Girl of Oz/the Velveteen Rabbit by Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Beatrix Potter, Margery Williams, Rudyano Kipling ( 2000) |
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The Book of the Hamburgs A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs by L. Frank Baum ( 1992) |
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By the Candelabra's Glare by L. Frank Baum ( 1981) |
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Charming Classics Alice in Wonderland/the Wizard of Oz/Peter Pan by Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie ( 2002) Three classic novels together with three beautiful charms on a necklace: a rabbit, ruby slippers, and a golden tinkerbell. A perfect gift for young readers. Alice In Wonderland The Wizard of Oz Peter Pan |
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Classical Wizard Magnus Mirabilis in Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1986) |
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The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum ( 2002) |
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The Cyclone by L. Frank Baum ( 2008) |
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Czarnoksieznik Z Krainy Oz by L. Frank Baum, Catherine Solyom, Juliusz P. Szeniawski, Irina Georgeta Pusztai ( 1998) |
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The Discontented Gopher by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Dorothy And the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2005) |
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Dorothy And the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2005) |
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Dorothy and the Lizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Richard A. Gardner ( 1980) |
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1984)
Dorothy and the Wizard visit the center of the earth, where people are vegetables, glass houses grow and Oz characters reappear. Classic sequel to "Wizard of Oz".
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Dot and Tot of Merryland Based on the Book by L. Frank Baum by L. Frank Baum, Michael Pretasky, Jennifer Kirkeby ( 2004) |
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Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum ( 1994)
Join young Dot and her friend Tot as their boat is swept through a hidden tunnel into Merryland -- a fairyland made up of Seven Valleys, each with its own special magic! From the Valley of the Clowns to the Valley Candy People to the Valley o??? Babies, Dot and Tot ar??? entranced with the wonders they encounter. Then i??? the Valley of Toys they meet the magnificent Queen o??? Merryland -- a dainty, beautiful Wax Doll. As the continue their magical voyage through the enchanting valleys a troubling question hangs over their heads can the Queen allow Dot and Tot to leave her enchanted realm and risk the outside world discovering h??? secret land? With 32 black-and-white illustratio
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El Mago De Oz / The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1983) |
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The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1989)
Book 6 of L. Frank Baum's beloved OZ books, in which the wicked Nome king, who plots to conquer Oz and enslave its people, prepares to invade the Emerald City just as Dorothy and her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry arrive!
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The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum ( 2008) |
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Father Goose His Book by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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The Flying Girl and Her Chum by L. Frank Baum ( 1997) |
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Giant Horse of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth P. Thompson ( 1985)
Scarecrow, Trot, from California, and Benny, a living statue from Boston, encounter High Boy, a giant horse with telescopic legs who is on a mission to save the Ozure Isles from a sea serpent.
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Glinda of Oz In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Prince Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the by L. Frank Baum ( 2000)
The Sorceress and Wizard of Oz attempt to save Princess Ozma and Dorothy from the dangers which threaten them when they try to bring peace to two warring tribes.
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The Gnome King of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth P. Thompson ( 1985)
It is up to Peter, a boy from Philadelphia to stop Ruggedo, the evil gnome king, from taking over the emerald city of Oz.
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Handy Mandy in Oz by Thompson, L. Frank Baum ( 1996)
Meet Handy Mandy, a remarkable girl with seve??? hands -- each with its own special abilities! When a??? underground mountain spring explodes under the roc??? on which she is standing, Mandy is blown all the wa??? from Mr. Mern to the marvelous land of Oz. There she meets Nox the Royal Ox of Keretaria an??? helps him rescue young King Kerry from his capto??? and restore him to his rightful throne! Handy Mandy in Oz was first published in 193??? This edition reproduces the complete text and all of th??? more than 120 black-and-white illustrations by ??? artist John R. Neill.
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The Hidden Prince of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2000) |
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In Other Lands Than Ours (1907) by Maud Gage Baum ( 1999) |
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John Dough And The Cherub by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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John Dough And the Cherub by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Journeys Through Oz Two Books in One by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill, W. W. Denslow ( 1985)
Describes the adventures of the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, Glinda, and the other strange inhabitants of Oz.
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Kabumpo in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Thompson ( 1998)
Kabumpo, an elephant, Wag, a rabbit, and Peg Amy, a wooden doll try to help Prince Pompadore save the kingdom of Pumperdink from Ruggedo, the evil gnome king.
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L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and the Wicked Witch by L. Frank Baum, Corinne J. Naden, Bill Morrison ( 1980)
After destroying the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy, accompanied by her dog Toto, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, returns to the Wizard of Oz who has promised to send her home to Kansas.
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L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and the Wizard by L. Frank Baum, Corinne J. Naden, Bill Morrison ( 1980)
Having destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion come to claim their rewards from the Wizard of Oz.
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L. Frank Baum's Off to See the Wizard by L. Frank Baum, Corinne J. Naden, Bill Morrison ( 1980)
A tornado carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the land of Oz, where she meets the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion.
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L. Frank Baum's Original "Oz" Series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz The Graphic Novel by L. Frank Baum, Michael Cavallaro ( 2005) |
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L. Frank Baum's over the Rainbow by L. Frank Baum, Corinne J. Naden, Bill Morrison ( 1980)
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion travel to see Glinda, the Good Witch, to see if she can help Dorothy return to Kansas.
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L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1986)
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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The Land of Oz Library Edition by L. Frank Baum ( 2009) |
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The Last Egyptian by L. Frank Baum ( 2002) |
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The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum ( 2005) |
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause by L. Frank Baum ( 2002) |
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Little Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum ( 1983) |
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Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2004)
This collection of short stories about the land of Oz includes "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger", "Little Dorothy and Toto", "Tiktok and the Nome King", "Ozma and the Little Wizard", "Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse", and "The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman".
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Lost Comics of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1992) |
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Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1998)
When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald Citys most celebrated citizens join in the search for the lost princess. This exciting mystery -- featuring the twelve original color plates and one hundred drawings -- involves nearly every one of the amazing cast of characters that populate America's favorite fairyland.
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Lucky Bucky in Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ( 1992)
Join young Lucky Bucky for a valiant voyage from New York Harbor to the Emerald City. On the high seas of the Nonestic Ocean, Lucky Bucky meets and joins forces with a strange and wondrous creature, the Wooden Whale. This is no casual cruise: dangers lurk in the oceans and discouragements wait in the shallows of rivers, but our Bucky has enough courage and self-reliance -- and luck -- to triumph in the end! Lucky Bucky in Oz is the third Oz book written and illustrated by Oz artist John R. Neill. This facsimile of the 1942 first edition includes all of Neill's original text and 125 b&w pictures and features such beloved Oz friends as the Wizard and Neill's own Jenny Jump.
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The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1998)
A young citizen of Oz who learns an important magic word falls prey to the wickedness of the Nomes' ex-king who wants to destroy Dorothy, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma.
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The Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum ( 2008) |
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Le Magicien D'Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2002) |
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El Mago De Oz / The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2002) |
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El Mago De Oz / The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1983)
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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El Maravilloso Mago De Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1996)
A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, where wild beasts talk, silver shoes have magic powers, and good witches offer protection with a kiss. But Dorothy has made an enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West. With her new friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, they brave many dangers in search of the Wonderful Wizard in his Emerald City at the heart of Oz to ask him to grant each of them what they most desire - only to find that they already possess it. Published at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz immediately captivated child and adult readers alike. This new edition includes many of W. W. Denslow's original illustrations, and the introduction considers both the famous MGM film version and recent literary theory in a fascinating discussion of this children's classic.
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El Maravilloso Mago De Oz / The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1999) |
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El Maravilloso Mago De Oz / The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2005) |
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El Maravilloso Mago De Oz/the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1983)
Dorothy journeys to the Emerald City with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion in this translation of Baum's beloved tale.
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Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1975)
In the second book in the Wizard of Oz series, a boy named Tip takes up residence in the Emerald City after escaping from the grasp of the evil sorceress Mobi. Unfortunately for everyone in the Emerald City, Mobi is not quite ready to let Tip away from her. This book also introduces the character Ozma.
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Master Key by L. Frank Baum ( 2008) |
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Merry Go Round in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Lauren McGraw, Eloise Jarvis McGraw ( 1989)
Robin Brown mounts a merry-go-round in Oregon, grabs the brass ring, and suddenly he and his scarlet carousel horse fly off to Oz! With the magically animated merry-go-round horse as a companion, Robin joins Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Prince Gules, and a unicorn on a quest to save the Kingdom of Halidom. Merry Go Round in Oz was the 40th and last of the original Oz books issued by L. Frank Baum's own publishers. Written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (winner of three Newbery Honor Medals) and her daughter, and illustrated by beloved Oz artist Dick Martin, this is a complete facsimile of the original 1963 edition.
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Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Navy Alphabet Book by L. Frank Baum ( 2001) |
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A New Wonderland by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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Ojo in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson ( 1986)
A Munchkin boy is kidnapped by a band of gypsies and tries to escape with the aid of a dancing bear.
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Our Landlady by L. Frank Baum ( 1999) |
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The Oz Cd Audio Collection by L. Frank Baum ( 2006)
Presents four classic stories of the Land of Oz, featuring Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion, Tip, Jack Pumpkinhead, Glinda the Good Witch, Princess Ozma, and Woggle-bug. Read by Ray Bolger. Books available.
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The Oz Sound-Book by L. Frank Baum ( 1990) |
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Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1985)
Fantasy and adventure in the fairy land of Ev with Dorothy, Princess Ozma, a wicked Nome King, an enchanted royal family and more.
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Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson ( 1996)
Introducing the Wizard's latest and greatest invention --the Ozoplane, which can magically fly up through the Stratosphere to all the incredible fairy kingdoms in the sky. Dorothy, the Wizard, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow go off to explore Red Top Mountain, where the wicked Bustabo has stolen King Azarine's throne, while th??? Tin Woodman is accidentally sent skyrocketing wit??? his friends up to the magical kingdom of Stratovania Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, first published in 1939, was Thompson's last Oz book -- and for it sh??? pulled out all the stops! It features all of Neill's mor??? than 130 black-and-white drawing
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Paradox in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Edward A. Einhorn ( 2000) |
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz A Magical Musical Show in Two Acts by L. Frank Baum, Adrian Mitchell, Andy Roberts ( 1994) |
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1990)
The delightful story of a patchwork doll brought to life, a magic spell and more enchanting adventures in the Land of Oz with Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, and a host of new characters.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2007) |
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Perro De Cristal/ The Glass Dog by L. Frank Baum ( 2006)
Briefly handling fantasy, a renowned author paints an interesting portrait of a society full of prejudices, with wise comments and a comical counterpoint.
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Policeman Bluejay by Maginel Wright Barney, L. Frank Baum ( 1981)
Two children, transformed into skylarks, observe as Policeman Bluejay enforces the laws of the birds in an orderly forest world threatened only by the wanton destructiveness of man.
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Queen Zixi Of Ix by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Queen Zixi Of Ix Or The Story Of The Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum ( 1995) |
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Queen Zixi of IX or the Story of the Magic Cloak Or, the Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum ( 1971)
Baum considered this his best non-Oz fantasy. Magic wishing-cloak, evil hag, witchcraft, more.
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Queen Zixi of Ix Or The Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum ( 2009) |
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Queen Zixi of Ix; Or, Story of the Magic by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Queen Zixi, of Ix, the Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum ( 1978) |
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Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1993)
Classic "Oz" adventure reprinted from original 1916 edition. 114 illustrations by John R. Neill.
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The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1986)
Dorothy meets the Shaggy Man, little Button-Bright and the Rainbow's beautiful daughter in this delightful sequel to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
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Rooster's Off to See the World by L. Frank Baum, Eric Carle ( 1999)
This boldly colored cumulative tale tells the story of a traveling rooster who is joined by two cats, three frogs, four turtles, and five fish.
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Royal Book of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Thompson ( 2001)
Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island.
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The Runaway in Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill, Eric Shanower ( 1995)
Here is Neill's long-lost fourth Oz book finally published to the joy of Oz fans everywhere! When Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz, gets angry and decides to run away from home, she lands in on predicament after another, setting the Wogglebug??? Castle in the Air adrift, angering Fanny the Weathe??? Witch, and causing her friends all kinds of worry! Befriended by Popla, the world's strongest Pow??? Plant, and a runaway student named Alexampl??? Scraps' adventures take her to new heights as she sai??? over Oz in the Castle in the Air. But, will th??? runaway Patchwork Girl ever return to Oz? With over 100 high-spirited black-and-white illustrations by today's most popular Oz artist, Eric Shanowe???
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The Rundelstone of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Eloise McGraw ( 2002)
Poco, a living marionette, is on his own at Witheraway Castle, working for its master, the Whitherd, and must find the mysterious Rundelstone to see his friends again and to keep the hidden kingdom of Fyordi-Zik from darkness.
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Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2002)
Trot and Cap'n Bill have several adventures when they travel to Jinxland and meet Button-Bright, a boy originally from Philadelphia. In Jinxland, the trio finds itself in danger when they defy a powerful witch and a cruel king. Determined to save Trot, Cap'n Bill, and Button-Bright, Glinda the good witch sends the Scarecrow on a rescue mission.
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Scraps! The Ragtime Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Virginia Glasgow Koste ( 1986) |
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The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum ( 1998)
Meet Trot, a young girl from California, and her peg-legged sailor-friend, Cap'n Bill. Together, they are swept underneath the waves by a friendly group of mermaids who take them on a series of exciting adventures in their underwater kingdom. As Baum says in his introduction, "The oceans are big and broad.... Strange creatures come from the seas at times, and perhaps in the ocean depths are many, more strange than mortal eye has ever gazed upon". First issued m 1911, this reissue includes the complete text and all 80 b&w illustrations by John R. Neill.
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Secrets of the Yellow Brick Road A Map for the Modern Spiritual Journey by L. Frank Baum, Jesse Stewart ( 1997) |
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The Silver Princess in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson ( 1996)
Meet the first person to visit Oz from another world -- Princess Planetty of Anuther Planet and Thun, her Thundercolt. With her silver skin and clear yellow eyes, Planetty cuts a dashing figure even among the unusual residents of Oz. How Planetry and Thun meet up with King Randy of Regalia and Kabumpo the Elegant Elephant (who are on their way to visit Jinnicky the Red Jinn of the Land of Ev) and the adventures they all have together make for an exciting, fun-filled Ozzy tale. First published in 1938, The Silver Princess in Oz is available once again with all of John R. Neill's 110 black-and-white drawings.
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Sky Island by L. Frank Baum ( 2002)
Button-Bright's adventures begin when he finds a magic umbrella that will carry him anywhere in the world.
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Speedy in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson ( 1986)
Speedy finds adventure when he lands on the flying Umbrella Island and helps the Princess to escape from Loxo the Giant.
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Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum ( 1985) |
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The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo And His People by L. Frank Baum ( 2004) |
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Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People by L. Frank Baum ( 1968)
Adventures in a land even stranger than Oz. Best Baum not in Oz series.
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The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Easyread Edition by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Easyread Comfort Edition by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Easyread Large Edition by L. Frank Baum ( 2006) |
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Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill ( 1994)
Last in the series of Baum's captivating "Oz" books features many delightful escapades. 93 illustrations by John R. Neill.
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The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1999)
In a series of adventures sure to thrill Oz fans both old and new, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow journey across the magical land of Oz in search of the Tin Woodman long-lost sweetheart, a beautiful Munchkin girl.
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The Tin Woodman of Oz/No 12 by L. Frank Baum ( 1988)
Dorothy tries to rescue the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the giantess who has changed them into a tin owl and a teddy bear and is using them for playthings.
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The Twinkle Tales by L. Frank Baum ( 2005) |
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Visitors from Oz The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman by Martin Gardner, L. Frank Baum ( 1998)
Dorothy and friends return to New York City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. Ever since The Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900, Dorothy and her companions have captured the imaginations of Americans, both young and old. Generations of readers raised on L. Frank Baum's incredible Oz books, and on books by his worthy successors, will be amazed and entranced by Martin Gardner's exciting account of further adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman in United States. Indeed, by placing the story in Manhattan of the late 1990s, with cameo appearances by Rudy Giuliani, Oprah Winfrey, and Geraldo Rivera, Gardner has for the first time ingeniously adapted Baum's immortal characters to an American setting. While a century's worth of readers has enjoyed the Oz series, it is not generally known that in Baum's fifth Oz book, Ozma teleported Dorothy and her uncle permanently to Oz. Nor is it known that Glinda moved Oz to a parallel world. In Gardner's wild novel, Dorothy and her faithful friends visit several towns in Oz--including Wonderland, a new Mount Olympus, and Ballville--before they arrive in New York's Central Park by way of a mathematical curiosity called a Klein Bottle.The purpose of their visit to Earth is to publicize a new musical film about Oz. But plans go awry when two evil mobsters, hired by a wicked rival movie producer, try to kill Dorothy and her companions. In their desperate attempts to flee these villains, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman find themselves in a series of precarious predicaments across New York City. Combining vivid suspense with a host of mathematical riddles and technological pyrotechnics, Martin Gardner has created a new fable in the finest traditions of L. Frank Baum that celebrates the power of imagination and the lure of an ageless heroine named Dorothy at the turn of a new century.A jewel of a story, Visitors From Oz will bedazzle children and adults alike for decades to come.
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The Wishing Horse of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson ( 1986)
Dorothy and a flying pig attempt to rescue Oz from a fat old king who has taken control.
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The Wiz Adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum by L. Frank Baum, William F. Brown, Charlie Smalls ( 1979) |
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The Wizard Oz by L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Burns ( 2004)
Originally published in 1900 as THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, and later under the title THE WIZARD OF OZ, L. Frank Baum's imaginative American fairy tale/fantasy has been a perennial favorite for over a century. Though there is academic debate about 1890s political references in the text, the adventures of Dorothy Gale and the creatures she meets are infinitely more entrancing to readers. This first volume in the 14-book Wizard of Oz series opens with a transformative tornado that hits Dorothy's small Kansas town and transports the girl and her pup, Toto, to the magical Land of Oz. Seeking a way back home, Dorothy sets out in search of the Wizard of Oz, who she hopes will be able to help. As she travels, Dorothy is joined by an intellect-hungry Scarecrow, a forlorn Tin Woodman, and a deeply funny Cowardly Lion. But one of the most famous children's literary villains of all time, the Wicked Witch of the West, threatens to keep the foursome from their goal. The traditional edition is accompanied by W.W. Denslow's incredible illustrations, but many artists have re-illustrated this American masterpiece.
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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Deborah Hautzig ( 1984)
A cyclone carries Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, to the land of Oz, and in order to get back to Kansas, she seeks the help of the powerful Wizard.
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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Horace J. Elias ( 1976)
This is the first book in the 14-book Wizard of Oz series. When a tornado hits her small Kansas town, Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported to the magical Land of Oz. Seeking a way back home, Dorothy sets out in search of the Wizard of Oz, whom she hopes will be able to help her get back home. As she travels, Dorothy meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, a Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West.
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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, William-Alan Landes, Marilyn Standish ( 1990)
A dramatic adaptation of the Baum story featuring Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion.
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The Wizard of Oz by Kimberly Morris, L. Frank Baum ( 1999)
There's a cyclone coming! Uncle Henry shouts. But it is too late for his niece. Snatched away from her home in Kansas, Dorothy finds herself in the land of Oz. There she meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Lion, and together they set off down the yellow brick road to seek the Wizard of Oz. For nearly 100 years, children have been entranced by the wonderful world of Oz. In this Young classics edition, children can enjoy the imaginary land of Oz and also learn about real life on the Kansas prairies 100 years ago. Photography and background information help to set the scene, and bring Dorothy and her friends to life for a new generation of children.
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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1986)
Join the wonderful world of Oz. Here is the original book that started the wonderful series and inspired the famous movie, in which Dorothy Gale is whisked from Kansas to the magical land of Oz where--with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion--she sets off to find the illusive Wizard.
And don't forget these enchanting books of Oz: Book 1: THE WIZARD OF OZ Book 2: THE LAND OF OZ Book 3: OZMA OF OZ Book 4: DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ Book 5: THE ROAD TO OZ Book 6: THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ Book 7: THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ Book 8: TIK-TOK OF OZ Book 9: THE SCARECROW OF OZ Book 10: RINKITINK IN OZ Book 11: THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ Book 12: THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ Book 13: THE MAGIC OF OZ Book 14: GLINDA OF OZ |
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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2008)
Originally published in 1900 as THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, and later under the title THE WIZARD OF OZ, L. Frank Baum's imaginative American fairy tale/fantasy has been a perennial favorite for over a century. Though there is academic debate about 1890s political references in the text, the adventures of Dorothy Gale and the creatures she meets are infinitely more entrancing to readers. This first volume in the 14-book Wizard of Oz series opens with a transformative tornado that hits Dorothy's small Kansas town and transports the girl and her pup, Toto, to the magical Land of Oz. Seeking a way back home, Dorothy sets out in search of the Wizard of Oz, who she hopes will be able to help. As she travels, Dorothy is joined by an intellect-hungry Scarecrow, a forlorn Tin Woodman, and a deeply funny Cowardly Lion. But one of the most famous children's literary villains of all time, the Wicked Witch of the West, threatens to keep the foursome from their goal. The traditional edition is accompanied by W.W. Denslow's incredible illustrations, but many artists have re-illustrated this American masterpiece.
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The Wizard of Oz A Novelization by L. Frank Baum, Victor Fleming ( 1993)
An adaptation of the classic tale of Dorothy's adventure in the Land of Oz features photographs from the classic 1939 film. Original.
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The Wizard of Oz BBC Children's Classics by L. Frank Baum ( 2001)
This, the complete unabridged original tale that provided us with the beloved classic movie, is also a great modern fairy tale. Dorothy, her dog Toto, the Tin Woodsman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion endure in the hearts of children and adults alike.
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The Wizard of Oz Level 4 by L. Frank Baum, Fran Hunia ( 1997)
Dorothy and her dog Toto experience amazing adventures as they journey to the Emerald City in search of the famous Wizard of Oz.
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The Wizard of Oz Book and Charm by L. Frank Baum ( 1999)
This latest edition to the "Charming Classics" collection includes a paperback edition of Dorothy's adventure into the magical and mystical world of Oz, and the sparkling ruby slippers that carried her back home to Kansas. Includes ruby slippers charm and necklace.
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The Wizard of Oz Frieze by L. Frank Baum ( 1986) |
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Wizard of Oz Library by L. Frank Baum, Corinne J. Naden ( 1980) |
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The Wizard of Oz Story and Coloring Book by L. Frank Baum ( 1987) |
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The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book by L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow ( 1994)
Presents the full original text of the classic story of Dorothy's adventures and features six punch-out characters that waddle down a punch-out yellow-brick-road ramp when assembled.
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The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book/Includes Six Waddle Characters and Board by L. Frank Baum ( 1994)
First published in the thirties, this edition contains the complete text of the original whimsical tale along with six pop-out characters from the story and a yellow brick road ramp for them to walk down.
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The Wizard of Oz and the Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1979) |
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Wizard of Oz level 1 by L. Frank Baum, Rosemary (RTL) Border ( 2007) |
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The Wizard of the Emerald City by L. Frank Baum, A Volkov ( 1991) |
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A Wonderful Welcome to Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & the Emerald City of Oz by Gregory Maguire, L. Frank Baum ( 2006)
A trio of novels from Baum's popular fantasy series come together in an omnibus edition containing The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and The Emerald City of Oz, accompanied by a definitive introduction to the history of Oz and its characters by the best-sellling author of Wicked.
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The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz Unabridged by Scott McKowen, L. Frank Baum, Arthur Pober ( 2005) |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 2002)
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Virginia Glasgow Koste ( 1990) |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1979)
Originally published in 1900 as THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, and later under the title THE WIZARD OF OZ, L. Frank Baum's imaginative American fairy tale/fantasy has been a perennial favorite for over a century. Though there is academic debate about 1890s political references in the text, the adventures of Dorothy Gale and the creatures she meets are infinitely more entrancing to readers. This first volume in the 14-book Wizard of Oz series opens with a transformative tornado that hits Dorothy's small Kansas town and transports the girl and her pup, Toto, to the magical Land of Oz. Seeking a way back home, Dorothy sets out in search of the Wizard of Oz, who she hopes will be able to help. As she travels, Dorothy is joined by an intellect-hungry Scarecrow, a forlorn Tin Woodman, and a deeply funny Cowardly Lion. But one of the most famous children's literary villains of all time, the Wicked Witch of the West, threatens to keep the foursome from their goal. The traditional edition is accompanied by W.W. Denslow's incredible illustrations, but many artists have re-illustrated this American masterpiece.
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Book by L. Frank Baum ( 1974)
Color the Yellow Brick Road and much more in 61 drawings adapted from W.W. Denslow's originals, accompanied by abridged version of text. 61 illustrations.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/the Marvelous Land of Oz/Ozma of Oz Boxed Set by L. Frank Baum ( 2000)The Wonderful Wizard of OzPictures by W. W. Denslow The classic story, beloved for one hundred years, of Dorothy Gale, her dog, Toto, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman, and the Scarecrow. Together, the new friends have incredible adventures in the magical Land of Oz. The Marvelous Land of OzPictures by John R. Neill A young boy named Tip meets up with our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman as be travels throughout the Land of Oz. Ozma of OzPictures by John R. Neill Dorothy reunites with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion in the fairy realm of Ev, where the Queen and her ten children are captives of the cruel Nome King. |
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The Wonderful World of Oz The Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum ( 1998)
Three imaginative and innovative novels that reveal the true land of Oz Most people are familiar with the land of Oz by way of the classic 1939 film. But the film's basis was only the first of fourteen books about Oz in which Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise and which garnered an immense and loyal following. The first novel of the series, The Wizard of Oz (1900), introduces Dorothy Gale, who is whisked to the land of Oz, where she meets Glinda the Witch of the North, the Munchkins, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and a host of characters who didn't appear in the 1939 MGM film. The Emerald City of Oz (1910), the sixth book in the series, finds Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry arriving from Kansas to encounter the wicked Nome King's plot to conquer Oz. In the final novel, Glinda of Oz (1920), Dorothy and Princess Ozma travel to an enchanted island to prevent a battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. Tapping into a deeply rooted desire in himself and his readers to live in a peaceful country in which interpersonal relations were based not on commodity exchange, but on the sharing of talents and gifts, Baum's imaginative creation, like all great utopian literature, holds out the possibility for change.
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