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  • Published: 23 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780375986345
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz





Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Baum's story of Dorothy, carried by a cyclone from a Kansas farm to the land of the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion, was published in May 1900. By the following January, 100,000 copies had been sold, and the book has ever since been an undisputed favorite. The original illustrations by Denslow, which are reflected in the film and stage versions, have often been imitated but never surpassed.

  • Published: 23 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780375986345
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

About the author

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum was born in New York in 1856. The Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was based on a story he used to tell his own children. It became an international bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a stage play (1902) and a film starring Judy Garland (1939). Baum wrote thirteen further Oz books, alongside numerous other novels, short stories, scripts and poems. After his death in 1919, his publishers carried on producing Oz stories and didn’t stop until 1963.

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