Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz!
A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends—Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten—tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets.
Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground. Together they cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many more unforgettable encounters with a host of old friends, including the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the Wooden Sawhorse.
About the Oz Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz(1900)
- 2.The Marvelous Land of Oz(1904)
- 3.Ozma of Oz(1907)
- 4.Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz(1908)
- 5.The Road to Oz(1909)
- 6.The Emerald City of Oz(1910)
- 7.The Patchwork Girl of Oz(1913)
- 8.Tik-Tok of Oz(1914)
- 9.The Scarecrow of Oz(1915)
- 10.Rinkitink in Oz(1916)
- 11.The Lost Princess of Oz(1917)
- 12.The Tin Woodman of Oz(1918)
- 13.The Magic of Oz(1919)
- 14.Glinda of Oz(1920)
- +Little Wizard Stories of Oz(1913)
- +The Woggle-Bug Book(1905)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
The Oz books by L. Frank Baum form a series of classic children's fantasy novels that begins with the most famous of Baum's creations, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz and its colourful cast of inhabitants.
Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. Even as he lived, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" to emphasise the concept that Oz is an actual place. The illusion created was that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma related their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of wireless telegraph.
Aside from the fourteen books that Baum wrote, many other authors over the past century have contributed to the canon of Oz. These include nineteen novels by Ruth Plumly Thompson, three by John R. Neill, two by Jack Snow and two by Rachel R. Cosgrove. In 2005, the Baum Trust authorised Sherwood Smith to create four more official Oz sequels, two of which have been published to date. For the purpose of authenticity, only the first fourteen Oz novels originally penned by Baum himself have been included in our list.