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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Fantasy fiction Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Named Person: | Dorothy Gale, (Fictitious character); Dorothy Gale, (Fictitious character) |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
L FRANK BAUM |
ISBN: | 1509881964 9781509881963 |
OCLC Number: | 1031309856 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 15 cm |
Contents: | Chapter - 1: The Cyclone Chapter - 2: The Council with the Munchkins Chapter - 3: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow Chapter - 4: The Road through the Forest Chapter - 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman Chapter - 6: The Cowardly Lion Chapter - 7: The Journey to the Great Oz Chapter - 8: The Deadly Poppy Field Chapter - 9: The Queen of the Field-Mice Chapter - 10: The Guardian of the Gates Chapter - 11: The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz Chapter - 12: The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter - 13: The Rescue Chapter - 14: The Winged Monkeys Chapter - 15: The Discovery of Oz the Terrible Chapter - 16: The Magic Art of the Great Humbug Chapter - 17: How the Balloon was Launched Chapter - 18: Away to the South Chapter - 19: Attacked by the Fighting Trees Chapter - 20: The Dainty China Country Chapter - 21: The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts Chapter - 22: The Country of the Quadlings Chapter - 23: The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish Chapter - 24: Home Again |
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Baum dared to offer delight without instruction -- Michael Patrick Hearn [It] has worked its way into the national psyche as a fable of eternal hope in which things are not always as fearsome as they seem * New York Times * Baum created a truly extraordinary world, a real world . . . and filled it with amazing things -- Dinitia Smith The tales of Aesop and other fabulists . . . will never pass entirely away, but a welcome place remains and will easily be found for such stories as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz * New York Times * Like Robin Hood, Alice or Winnie the Pooh, Baum's inventions . . . have become the mythological furniture of our children's minds, and of our own and our parents' . . . Funny and inventive -- Marina Warner * Guardian * Read more...


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