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Most of us remember The Wizard of Oz as the film starring Judy Garland and Bert Lahr. But the film was based on an immensely popular early 20th century Oz series. In these novels, Oz is the utopian land beyond the rainbow where threats are turned back with valor and ingenuity. Their success is due to the way they induce children to look for the element of wonder in the world around them.

Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in The Road to Oz ) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King. The book was based on Baum's play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , which was produced in Los Angeles in spring 1913. Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a small monarchy separated from the rest of Oz's Winkie Country, sets out to raise an army to conquer Oz.

Ojo, known as Ojo the Unlucky, lives in poverty with his laconic uncle Unc Nunkie in the woods of the Munchkin Country in Oz. Dr. Pipt's wife has constructed a life-sized stuffed girl out of patchwork, and she wishes her husband to animate her to serve as an obedient household servant. The Powder of Life successfully animates the patchwork girl, but an accident causes both Pipt's wife and Unc Nunkie to be turned to stone.

The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. While they are toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling allies for an invasion of Oz. This is the first time in the Oz series that Baum made use of double plots for one of the books.

In the fourth book from L. Frank Baum's beloved Oz series, an earthquake pulls Dorothy and her cousin Zeb into an underground land where they find a new series of adventures. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz takes the heroes on a journey through the glass city of the Vegetable People, through a valley of invisible bears, and back to the land of Oz, where Dorothy's cat is put on trial for a murder she may not have committed.

Upon waking up in the Emerald City, Dorothy discovers that Princess Ozma is missing. In Quadling Country, Glinda finds that her magical Great Book of Records is also missing. She sends a message to the Wizard for help, but the Wizard cannot find his magic tools either. A search party is formed to track down the dear princess and all the missing magic. Over in Winkie Country, Cayke the Cookie Cook is missing her diamond studded golden dishpan and enlists the Yips advisor, Frogman, to assist her in locating it. Where has all the magic gone and what will become of Princess Ozma?

While Dorothy Gale is at home in Kansas one day, she and her pet dog Toto meet the Shaggy Man who comes walking past the Gale farm. He is a friendly, yet slightly senile hobo with an optimistic, carefree mentality.

On an ocean voyage with her uncle Henry to Australia, Dorothy is blown into the sea by a storm. She takes refuge on a floating chicken-coop, which washes ashore, along with the coop and a hen in it. The hen is able to speak; Dorothy gives it the name "Billina". Exploring the land, Dorothy and Billina are menaced by a tribe of brightly dressed "Wheelers", who have wheels instead of hands and feet.

In order to prevent a war between two neighboring groups, Ozma and Dorothy travel to a remote corner of Oz to lend their wisdom and their aid. Despite their good intentions, the Skeezers and the Flatheads are determined to have their war and imprison the two girls in an enclosed underwater city.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy Gale with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Dorothy Gale is gladly joining her Uncle Henry in California to visit relatives who live at Hugson's Ranch, after their vacation from Australia in Ozma of Oz . Dorothy meets Hugson's nephew who is her second cousin, Zeb of Hugson's Ranch. Dorothy, Eureka (her cat) and Zeb are riding a buggy being pulled by a cab-horse named Jim when a violent earthquake strikes.

The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman , commonly shortened to The Land of Oz , published in July 1904, is the second book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The story features the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and introduces Princess Ozma and Jack Pumpkinhead to the Oz mythos.

A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

זהו ספר ההמשך שכתב באום בשנת 1904 לספרו הקלאסי "הקוסם מארץ עוץ". כשדורותי חזרה לקנזס, הסיפור רק התחיל… בארץ עוץ, לא הכל כשורה. הדחליל הוא המלך בעיר האיזמרגד, אבל לא כל...

ספר 4 בסדרת עוץ. המשך לספרים "ארץ עוץ המופלאה" ו"עוצמה מעוץ", ובו רעידת אדמה מביאה את דורותי לעולם תת-קרקעי מסוכן, בו היא פוגשת שוב בקוסם המפורסם מארץ עוץ ועוברת שלל...

בממלכה קטנטנה בשולי ארץ עוץ, מתעוררת בוקר אחד המלכה אן-דלה ואמוס ומחליטה לכבוש את העולם. היא מקימה לה צבא של שישה-עשר קצינים וטוראי אחד, ויוצאת לדרך. באותה שעה...

בפינה נידחת בארץ המנצ'קינים חי ילד ששמו אוג'ו חסר-המזל, וכשמו כן הוא. רק אדם אחד היה לצדו כל חייו: דודו השתקן, ננקי. כשתאונת קסמים הופכת את דוד ננקי לפסל שיש, אוג'ו...

Le Magicien d'Oz, écrit en 1900 par L. Frank Baum, est un conte emblématique de la littérature américaine. Il est souvent perçu comme un ouvrage destiné à un public jeunesse, mais il regorge de symboles et de significations profondes. L'univers d'Oz est magnifiquement construit, avec des règles fantastiques qui viennent nourrir l’imaginaire des jeunes lecteurs, tout en offrant des moments de réflexion sur des thèmes plus sérieux. La structure narrative est simple et linéaire, ce qui rend l’histoire fluide et engageante.

A Munchkin named Bini Aru discovers a way to transform people and objects by speaking the magic word "pyrzqxgl." When Ozma proclaimed that no one was allowed to practice magic in Oz except for Glinda and The Wizard, Bini hid his notes in his laboratory. When his son Kiki finds these notes, he transforms himself into a hawk and sets off on an adventure. Landing in Ev, he runs into Ruggedo, the former Nome King who was exiled and now sees his opportunity for revenge through Kiki's power.

Step into the wonderfully whimsical world of The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, a charming short tale from the beloved author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum. This heartwarming and humorous story reimagines the classic nursery rhyme, expanding it into a delightful vignette full of love, chaos, and fairy-tale mischief.

In this heartwarming origin story from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, a poor widow and her devoted young son live a humble life by the river. When illness strikes his mother, the boy—dressed in a handmade blue suit—sets out to find work and support their small household. His kind heart and earnest spirit win him a job as a shepherd, and soon the countryside rings with the sweet sound of his silver horn.