The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz Book

It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.

The wonderful wizard of oz book. The wonderful wizard of oz ɒ z is an american children s novel written by author l. It was originally published by the george m. Frank baum and illustrated by w w.

While the movie is great it is only a shadow of what the book is. Read the wonderful wizard of oz by author l. The wonderful wizard of oz was originally published in 1900.

The oz books form a book series that begins with the wonderful wizard of oz 1900 and relate the fictional history of the land of oz oz was created by author l. Frank baum who went on to write fourteen full length oz books all of the baum written books are in the public domain in the united states. Denslow whose depictions of dorothy toto and all the other creatures and landscapes of oz.

Hill company in may 1900. Even while he was alive baum was styled as the royal historian of oz to emphasize the. The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 154 pages and is available in paperback format.

It has since seen several reprints most often under the title the wizard of oz which is the title of the popular 1902 broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live action film. It sold nearly 15 000 copies within a month of its publication in september 1900 and remains the most popular of the oz books not least of all because it s the only one illustrated by w. Frank baum s time honored oz novels country girl dorothy gale gets whisked away by a cyclone to the fantastical land of oz.

The main characters of this classics fantasy story are uncle henry dorothy gale. A modern fairy tale with a distinctly american setting a delightfully levelheaded heroine and engaging fantasy characters the story was enormously popular and became a classic of children s literature. Dropped into the midst of trouble when her farmhouse crushes a tyrannical sorceress dorothy incurs the wrath of the wicked witch of the west.