The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Volume 1 of L. F. Baum's Original Oz Series

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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2011 - Fiction - 164 pages
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Lyman Frank Baum's classic Original Oz Series comes to life with the illustrations of Jamie Shiu in this Theophania Publishing reprint. Inspired by the fantastic imagery in this brilliant series, Jamie has crafted over 140 images for this book series. If you haven't read this series before, be in for a treat as the characters take on a new life under Jamie's excellent illustrations. If you are returning to Oz, savour the stories again with this newly released edition. Join Dorothy Gale, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman, and the Scarecrow, among many other fabulous and excellent characters in the Land of Oz! There are fifteen books in this series: Volume 1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Volume 2 The Marvelous Land of Oz Volume 3 Ozma of Oz Volume 4 Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz Volume 5 The Road to Oz Volume 6 The Emerald City of Oz Volume 7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz Volume 8 Tik-Tok of Oz Volume 9 The Scarecrow of Oz Volume 10 Rinkitink in Oz Volume 11 The Lost Princess of Oz Volume 12 The Tin Woodman of Oz Volume 13 The Magic of Oz Volume 14 Glinda of Oz The Oz Coloring Book: A companion to the Original Oz Collection

About the author (2011)

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.

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TitleThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Volume 1 of L. F. Baum's Original Oz Series
AuthorL. Frank Baum
Illustrated byJamie Shiu
Editionillustrated
PublisherAmazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2011
ISBN1770832386, 9781770832381
Length164 pages
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