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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
It was originally published by the e M. pany in Chicago in 1900 and has since been reprinted countless times, sometimes under the name The Wizard of Oz.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by . Denslow. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial ess, and the ess of the popular 1903 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum's writing and having published thirteen more Oz books.
Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in New York. He, a sickIy chiId with a weak heart,who spent much of his childhood with his head in a began writing and producing his own magazines and his first book in 1886. Baum married and moved out west with his wife ,trying his hand at a string of essful business a general Store called Baum‘s IocaI children cIustered round to hear his created tales based on nursery rhymes,and a Collection was published in 1897 as Mother Goose in prose,followed by Father Goose,His book(1899),the Iatter illustrated by Willam produced seventeen sequeIs to Oz before his death in Iast to his wife on his deathbed were "Now we can cross the Shifting Sands".
Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a
cyclone and deposited in a field in the country of the
Munchkins. From then on, the magic journey starts. On her way to the Emerald City, she makes friends with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City.
The Scarecrow
Originally he is only a scarecrow
hanged on the pole by the farmer in the field to
scare crows. Afterwards he is freed by Dorothy.