The Oz series is a series of children’s books by L. Frank Baum. Baum wrote fourteen Oz books.[1] Baum said he wrote them because he wanted there to be fairy tales which weren’t scary. His first book was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which he wrote in 1900.
After Baum's death in 1919, publisher Reilly & Lee made annual Oz books, In 1921, Royal Historian Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote nineteen Oz books. After Thompson, Reilly & Lee made seven more books in the series: three by John R. Neill, two by Jack Snow, one by Rachel R.C. Payes, and a final book by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw. The forty books in Reilly & Lee's Oz series are called "the Famous Forty" by fans, and are considered the canonical Oz texts.[2]
- ↑ Staskiewicz, Keith (March 2013). "Hello, Yellow Brick Road". Entertainment Weekly. p. 1. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ↑ Simpson, Paul (2013). A Brief Guide to Oz. Constable & Robinson Ltd. p. xiii. ISBN 978-1-47210-988-0. Retrieved 10 February 2024.