Oz, the Great Wizard! The very name of L. Frank Baums magical character conjures a world where diminutive munchkins live and work, wicked witches run riot, and the mighty Oz himself rules over an Emerald City reached by a yellow brick road. The Wizard of Oz: The First Five Novels is your passport to this marvelous realm and wonders that have enchanted readers young and old for more than a century. Lavishly illustrated by W. W. Denslow and John R....

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was L. Frank Baums most magical literary creation, but that novel was only the first book in a multi-part epic that has become one of the best-loved sagas in fantasy fiction. The Emerald City of Oz continues the entertaining adventures collected as The Wizard of Oz: The First Five Novels, gathering into a single volume novels six through ten of the celebrated Oz series: The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Tik-Tok...

Lyman Frank Baum, writer, in addition to being an actor, was a poet, novelist, producer and journalist. And he even dedicated himself to raising chicks!

The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written after L. Frank Baum's death. The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Woggle-bug tells him that he has no family, so he goes back to the cornfield, where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots." When he fails to return, Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion set out to search for him. They meet an elderly knight, Sir Hokus of Pokes. They also meet the Doubtful...

Un tornado arrastra la casa de Dorothy hasta un lugar muy diferente a su casa. La única esperanza de escape de Dorothy es ver al gran mago de Oz. En su viaje para encontrarse con el mago, se le unen algunos amigos inusuales que también quieren favores del mago. Pero el mago no ayudará a Dorothy y sus amigos a menos que hagan algo para él: ¡Deben matar a la malvada bruja del oeste!

Known as one of the most famous devotees of the Hamburg chicken, L. Frank Baum wrote The Book of the Haumburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs in 1886 as one of his first books of his career. At the age of 20, Baum left his job at the stamp dealership to pursue a career in the breeding of poultry, a very popular vocation at the time. After ten years in the business and having established...