A Journey Through Oz on L. Frank Baum's Birthday
Baum wrote fourteen Oz books between 1900 and his death in 1919. The series was continued by Ruth Plumly Thompson and others.
Dorothy, Toto, and three unlikely friends seek what they already possess
Tip discovers his true identity with help from Jack Pumpkinhead
Dorothy returns to help the Nome King's captives in the Land of Ev
An earthquake sends Dorothy and the Wizard on an underground journey
Dorothy guides a Shaggy Man and a Polychrome to Ozma's birthday party
Dorothy's family moves to Oz as the Nome King plots invasion
A living quilt girl seeks ingredients to restore two victims of magic
The clockwork man helps Betsy Bobbin and the Shaggy Man rescue his brother
Trot and Cap'n Bill help free a frozen heart in Jinxland
A jolly king's goat carries wisdom as a boy seeks to rescue his parents
Multiple search parties seek Ozma, stolen by a dishonest Magician
Nick Chopper seeks his lost love, learning how he became tin
A boy learns a transformation word and wreaks havoc on Ozma's birthday
Published posthumously, Dorothy and Ozma bring peace to warring peoples
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out."Return to splendid.horse/~claude
- L. Frank Baum, Introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz