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How Frank Baum Became the Wizard of Coronado

SanDiego.com - Jan 6, 2012
By David Coddon • Thu, Jan 5th, 2012 For Lyman Frank Baum, who resided in Chicago's Humboldt Park, there may have been no place like home. But not long after the turn of the 20th Century and in the wake of this famous author's creative breakthrough, ...

The Political Bombshell That Shocks A Nation

The Moderate Voice - Jan 23, 2012
L. Frank Baum, author of a series of beloved children's books, admittedly snuck certain political and allegorical information into his writings. But other information has been included as well. That is the popular version of certain tales from Baum's ...

Local ties to "The Wizard of Oz" continue with an exhibit at The Strong.- 5:57 pm

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Jan 15, 2012
PICTURES The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum told a 1903 interviewer that the name Oz came from a file cabinet labeled "OZ." Baum was likely influenced by the women's suffragists movement. He created strong female heroes like Dorothy and ...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by: L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated.
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The Annotated Wizard of Oz

by: L. Frank Baum

The "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book.

This annoted edition illuminates the numerous contemporary references, provides 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A facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition appears with the original drawings by W.W. Denslow, as well as 25 previously unpublished illustrations. There is a bibliography of L. Frank Baum's published work, every notable "Oz" edition and the stage and cinematic productions from 1939's "The Wizard of Oz", to the 1974 Broadway hit "The Wiz".
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition

by: L. Frank Baum
One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home."

Follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz.
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