The Lost Princess of Oz
Princess Ozma is missing! When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald City's most celebrated citizens join in the search for the lost princess.
But Ozma isn't all that's gone missing. The magical treasures of Oz have disappeared, too, including the Magic Picture, the Wizard's black bag, and even Glinda's Great Book of Records. With no clues to guide them, Ozma's friends separate into four search parties and spread out across their vast country in a desperate quest for their absent ruler.
Deep in the Winkle Country, Dorothy's search party is soon joined by Cayke the Cookie Cook, who has lost a magic gold dishpan, and the amazing Frogman, a man-sized frog who walks on his hind legs. Together with these new allies, Ozma's friends learn that their valued possessions aren't missing but have been stolen by a mysterious villain. If their new foe is powerful enough to steal Princess Ozma and all of their magical treasures, how will they defeat him with no magic of their own?
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.