Review of The Woggle-Bug Book by L Frank Baum (1905)
Baum wrote a short book published in 1905 right before the third Oz book; Ozma of Oz. It featured a character that was introduced in the Marvelous Land of Oz, the Woggle-Bug. It’s not an “official”...
View ArticleContinuing my journey down the yellow brick road…
On January 31, 2012, I made a resolution to read all of the original L Frank Baum Oz books in 2012. I completed that goal on Dec 20, 2012, just under ten months later. You can visit my Oz Archive to...
View ArticleA review of L Frank Baum’s The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
In 1902, just two years after writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but 2 years before the first Oz sequel, L Frank Baum wrote The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. It was illustrated by Mary Cowles...
View ArticleA review of The Master Key, An Electrical Fairy Tale by L Frank Baum (1901)
Well, it’s been a while since I did an L Frank Baum review. The last Oz book I reviewed was the first post-Baum Oz book The Royal Book of Oz (#15 in the series) back in September 2013. I then...
View ArticleA review of Dot and Tot of Merryland (1901) by L Frank Baum
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Baum review, so let’s do this. The illustrator of the first Oz book was WW Denslow. If you recall, he illustrated only the very first Oz book before John Neill...
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