Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum

There was one thing the children demanded which I found it impossible to do in this present book: they bade me introduce Toto, Dorothy’s little black dog, who has many friends among my readers. So what could I do but tell “what happened to the Wizard afterward”? You will find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before. There were many requests from my little correspondents for “more about the Wizard.” It seems the jolly old fellow made hosts of friends in the first Oz book, in spite of the fact that he frankly acknowledged himself “a humbug.” The children had heard how he mounted into the sky in a balloon and they were all waiting for him to come down again. The little ones all love Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: “It isn’t a real Oz story without her.” So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure. For they have flooded me with thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly tried to adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one story.Īfter the wonderful success of “Ozma of Oz” it is evident that Dorothy has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. This is Our Book-mine and the children’s. Baum!” and what can I do but obey their commands? I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another but just now my loving tyrants won’t allow me. The children won’t let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!

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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum