The Land of Oz

Since 1900 when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of America THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other exciting characters who inhabit the land of Oz, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the imagination of millions of young readers.
These are stories which are genuine fantasy—creative, funny, tender, exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd creatures, each of the 14 volumes which now comprise the series, has been eagerly sought out by generation after generation until today they are known to all except the very young or those who were never young at all.
When, in a recent survey, The New York Times polled a group of teenagers on the books they liked best when they were young, the Oz books topped the list.
By L. Frank Baum:
CHICAGO THE REILLY & LEE CO. Publishers
TIP MANUFACTURES A PUMPKINHEAD
Author's Note
AFTER the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to write something more about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years.
Finally I promised one little girl, who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request,—and she is a Dorothy, by the way—that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for another story of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, I would write the book. Either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of The Wizard of Oz made new friends for the story. For the thousand letters reached their destination long since—and many more followed them.
And now, although pleading guilty to a long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.
L. FRANK BAUM.
Chicago, June, 1904.