The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Overview

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is a timeless children's story by Lyman Frank Baum. A young girl, Dorothy, lives in Kansas with her uncle Henry. A tornado strikes, and Dorothy finds her house in a strange land and upside down on top of the now-dead the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy wants to go home, and the Good Witch of the North tells her to travel to the Emerald City and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews for this product are not available at this time.

Author Information

Bio of L. Frank Baum

Best known as the author of the Wizard of Oz series, Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, in New York. When Baum was a young man, his father, who had made a fortune in oil, gave him several theaters in New York and Pennsylvania to manage. Eventually, Baum had his first taste of success as a writer when he staged The Maid of Arran, a melodrama he had written and scored. Married in 1882 to Maud Gage, whose mother was an influential suffragette, the two had four sons. Baum often entertained his children with nursery rhymes and in 1897 published a compilation titled Mother Goose in Prose, which was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. The project was followed by three other picture books of rhymes, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow. The success of the nursery rhymes persuaded Baum to craft a novel out of one of the stories, which he titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Some critics have suggested that Baum modeled the character of the Wizard on himself. Other books for children followed the original Oz book, and Baum continued to produce the popular Oz books until his death in 1919. The series was so popular that after Baum's death and by special arrangement, Oz books continued to be written for the series by other authors. Glinda of Oz, the last Oz book that Baum wrote, was published in 1920. 030

Customer Reviews

• I enjoyed this book

  Posted February 22, 2009 by clista shamley, olive branch, ms

  I have always loved the movie and i've never read the book. The book and the movie are really different but i still love the movie and i enjoyed the book. One difference is that Dorothy did not meet Glinda until the very end and it tells you how the tinman became that way. There were also a lot more obstacles in the book.

Additional Info

Imprint

ReadHowYouWant

Filesize

887.13 KB

Number of Pages

120

eBook ISBN

9781442948471