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  • Bibliography:
    92 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1900
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Multi-Author Series List

Wonderful Oz

1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
2 - The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
3 - Ozma of Oz (1907)
4 - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
5 - The Road to Oz (1909)
6 - The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
7 - Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
8 - Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
9 - The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
10 - Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
11 - Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
12 - The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
13 - The Magic of Oz (1919)
14 - Glinda of Oz (1920)

Book List in Order: 92 titles



  • They're off to see the Wizard! Only the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can tell Dorothy how to get back to her home in Kansas. Only the Wizard can give the Scarecrow the brains he wants so much. Only the Great Oz in the Emerald City can give the Tin Man a...



  • The first of many sequels to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz follows Tip, who is escaping from the sorceress Mombi. On his way to the Emerald City, hoping to start a new life, he creates Jack Pumpkinhead and the Wooden Sawhorse. Once the companions arrive...



  • When the renowned author of the wonderful Oz stories surpasses himself with a full-blown fairy tale, complete with magic wishes, palace life, an hag, and a poor boy and girl, we know we are in for something exceptional in story-telling. "In some ways...



  • En route to an Australian vacation via a steamboat, Dorothy is accidentally tossed overboard with Billina, a yellow hen also on the ship. They wash ashore in the Land of Ev, where Billina gains the ability to talk. The two, along with Tik-Tok, a mech...



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    At the turn of the twentieth century, a former traveling salesman, journalist, playwright, and actor named Lyman Frank Baum published a novel for children. Overnight, he became famous and his book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, became the classic ...



  • Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto find themselves traveling through mystical places on their way to Oz. Accompanied by a kind stranger and some other characters, Dorothy follows the road through Foxville and realizes they will make it to the Land ...



  • The sixth installment of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series, this novel follows Dorothy Gale along with her Aunt and Uncle as they move permanently to Oz. Because of the financial stress of rebuilding the farm, Dorothy's family is facing mount...



  • In L. Frank Baum’s “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, (1913) a young munchkin boy named Ojo embarks on a quest to save his grandfather who has been petrified by a magician. On his quest, he is joined by a life sized patchwork doll named Scraps. Along ...



  • In L.Frank Baum’s “Tik-Tok of Oz”, (1914), Ann Soforth, a rival queen from the land of Oogaboo, raises an army to conquer Oz. Newcomers Betsy Bobbin and her loyal mule Hank team up with the Shaggy Man, Ozga (Ozma’s cousin who is a rose), Poly...






  • In L. Frank Baum’s “The Scarecrow of Oz” (1915), Cap’n Bill, a little girl named Trot, and Button-Bright from “The Road to Oz” are marooned in Jinxland, a mountainous region adjacent to Oz, but separated by a bottomless chasm. Here they g...



  • In L. Frank Baum’s “Rinkitink in Oz”, (1916) Rinkitink, a plump jolly fellow, and his grouchy goat Bilbil assist Inga, the crown prince of Pingaree in reclaiming his lost kingdom from invaders. Inga is helped in his efforts by three magic pearl...



  • In which Ozma is lost -- as are all the known magical instruments in Oz -- and how the search party of Dorothy, the Wizard and other loyal friends embarks upon bizarre adventures and meets such strange creatures as the Frogman and the Lavender Bear w...



  • Woot the Wanderer and the Scarecrow help the Tin Woodman find his old love, Nimmie Amee, suffering the ignominious enchantments of Mrs. Yoop's yookoohoo magic along the way....



  • In L. Frank Baum’s “The Magic of Oz”, (1919) the Nome Ruggedo and a corrupt munchkin with the secret of magic form an army of wild animals to march upon the Emerald city. Can Dorothy and her friends thwart this nefarious plot? The 13th in the O...



  • In L. Frank Baum’s “Glinda of Oz”, (1920) Glinda and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of Oz to prevent a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. When the Skeezers imprison them on a glass covered island at the bottom of a lake, Glinda an...




  • Book 2 of L. Frank Baum's immortal OZ series 

    Young Tip runs away from his guardian, the witch Mombi, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse, and flees to the Emerald City where he learns the incredible secret of his past.<...





  • Best-known for his beloved "Oz" stories, L. Frank Baum also fabricated other realms of fantasy for his young readers. In The Sea Fairies, he takes youngsters to visit one of those fascinating places -- a kingdom deep beneath the sea. Leading the wa...






  • When the Glass Cat of Oz attends the dedication of Silica Valley's Great Glassworks, she doesn't know she's about to find her roots and be wished smack dab into the middle of the one-hundred-and-one-year-old mystery of the Hidden Prince of Oz! Arizon...



  • L. Frank Baum's wild imagination takes up the Santa Claus story, reinventing it with a new origin myth in line with the Oz fanasies for which Baum is best known. From his humble beginnings as the only human child in an enchanted forest to his ultimat...



  • This was the only adventure novel (set in contemporary Egypt with some fantasy trappings) and the last adult work of fiction of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz, published eleven years after he wrote Mother Goose in Prose which first introd...



  • Astrid and Tyler find an old carnival merry-go-round in a junkyard, enchanted by Oscar Zoroaster Diggs, the man who became the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Mr. Diggs, along with his helper, the quiet munchkin, transport the children to Oz, where they take...



  • Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this book, which Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wrote under the pen name Edith Van Dyne, is much in the same vein as Alcott's cozy coming-of-age tale. The first in a series, the story of this n...





  • L. Frank Baum (1856"1919), author of The Wizard of Oz and thirteen more Oz books, created many other appealing fantasies for children. Writing under the pseudonym of Laura Bancroft, Baum related the adventures of Twinkle in these stories for small ...



  • This is the story of how three brave American girls sacrificed the comforts and luxuries of home to go abroad and nurse the wounded soldiers of a foreign war. By L. Frank Baum (creator of the Oz books), originally written under the pseudonyn "Edith V...



  • When Zikky the Gopher wins the golden ball, he faces a tough decision - riches or happiness? Zikky follows his choice and enjoys his new life for a short wile, but soon he finds himself in trouble. Did the little gopher make the wisest decision, or w...



  • From the author of The Wizard of Oz comes a high-flying adventure featuring intrepid girl aviator Orissa Kane. Like Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, Orissa is intelligent, self-reliant and always persevering. Circumstances force young Orissa Kane in...






  • Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...



  • "The question is often asked me whether Twinkle and Chubbins were asleep or awake when they encountered these wonderful adventures; and it grieves me to reflect that the modern child has been deprived of fairy tales to such an extent that it does ...



  • A collection of 22 verses and rhymes by Mother Goose, with stories by L Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz." Includes "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "The Cat and the Fiddle," "Old King Cole," "Little Bo Peep," "Humpty Dumpty," "Little Miss Muffet," ...






  • The creator of The WonderfulWizard of Oz spins a gripping tale of mystery, deceit, and murder in a rollicking tale from the turn of the twentieth century that abounds in old-fashioned charm. Join Sam Steele, a resourceful young sailor, for a whirlwin...



  • No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another. Mrs. McFarland was attending the weekly card party held by the Women's Anti-Gambling League. Sister Nell's young man had c...



  • One time a knook became tired of his beautiful life and longed for something new to do. The knooks have more wonderful powers than any other immortal folk-except, perhaps, the fairies and ryls. So one would suppose that a knook who might gain anythin...




  • An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. What he didn't know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he possessed all the books and recipes of all the wi...






  • On one of the upper branches of the Congo river lived an ancient and aristocratic family of hippopotamuses, which boasted a pedigree dating back beyond the days of Noah-beyond the existence of mankind-far into the dim ages when the world was new. The...



  • No one envied the child, who had scarcely been thought of until he became king himself. Then he was recognized as a personage of some importance, and the politicians and hangers-on, headed by the chief counselor of the kingdom, held a meeting to dete...



  • This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of Baum's work, in Oz or out. With ironic...



  • Jim was the son of a cowboy, and lived on the broad plains of Arizona. His father had trained him to lasso a bronco or a young bull with perfect accuracy, and had Jim possessed the strength to back up his skill he would have been as good a cowboy as ...



  • In the splendid palace of the Emerald City, which is in the center of the fairy Land of Oz, is a great Throne Room, where Princess Ozma, the Ruler, for an hour each day sits in a throne of glistening emeralds and listens to all the troubles of her pe...



  • In a room of the Royal Palace of the Emerald City of Oz hangs a Magic Picture, in which are shown all the important scenes that transpire in those fairy dominions. The scenes shift constantly and by watching them, Ozma, the girl Ruler, is able to dis...



  • The King of the Polar Bears lived among the icebergs in the far north country. He was old and monstrous big; he was wise and friendly to all who knew him. His body was thickly covered with long, white hair that glistened like silver under the rays of...



  • Dorothy was a little Kansas girl who once accidentally found the beautiful Land of Oz and was invited to live there always. Toto was Dorothy's small black dog, with fuzzy, curly hair and bright black eyes. Together, when they tired of the grandeur of...



  • There lived in Boston a wise and ancient chemist by the name of Dr. Daws, who dabbled somewhat in magic. There also lived in Boston a young lady by the name of Claribel Sudds, who was possessed of much money, little wit and an intense desire to go up...



  • Once upon a time there lived in the beautiful Emerald City, which lies in the center of the fairy Land of Oz, a lovely girl called Princess Ozma, who was ruler of all that country. And among those who served this girlish Ruler and lived in a cozy sui...






  • One was a Scarecrow. That means he was a suit of blue Munchkin clothes, stuffed with straw, on top of which was fastened a round cloth head, filled with bran to hold it in shape. On the head were painted two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth. The Sc...



  • The Nome King was unpleasantly angry. He had carelessly bitten his tongue at breakfast and it still hurt; so he roared and raved and stamped around in his underground palace in a way that rendered him very disagreeable. It so happened that on this un...





  • The follow-up to the smash hit Aunt Jane's Nieces, Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second in the series of ten novels that Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum penned for young adults at the dawn of the twentieth century. This entry follows th...



  • A short story by famous children's author L. Frank Baum, who was the one that wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." In Tiger's Eye, he changes his tone a bit and goes for a darker tone in his writing. This version of the story features illustrations....



  • This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...



  • This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



  • Uncle John was looking very serious indeed, and Patsy regarded him gratefully. Her father never would be serious where Kenneth was concerned. Perhaps in his heart the grizzled old Major was a bit jealous of the boy....




  • Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...




  • The Royal Book of Oz is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. Beginning in the 1980s, s...



  • Izzy Bella, short for Isabella, does not want to invite boys to her party until she learns that she can have a cow "friend" party with girls and boys. In this second book in the series, one friend in particular helps Izzy catch rainbows and she learn...




  • Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz was a newspaper comic strip written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Walt McDougall, a political cartoonist for the Philadelphia North American. Queer Visitors appeared in the North American, the Chicag...



  • Annabel was one of Baum's first efforts to write a novel for adolescent girls. Will Carden, the novel's protagonist, is fifteen years old at the start of the story. His family has "come down" in the world. Will likes twelve-year-old Annabel who is pl...





  • Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum under his pseudonym Schuyler Staunton -- a follow-up to the first Staunton novel of the previous year, The Fate of a Crown. Daughters of Destiny contained eight illustrations b...



  • Rinkitink in Oz is considered by many to be one of L. Frank Baum?s best books, yet Baum did not intend for it to be an Oz book at all. Written as King Rinkitink in 1905, when it saw print in 1916, it was with significant changes. Although the origina...





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    From the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes this tale of two children and their river voyage to an enchanted world. L. Frank Baum's fantasy features whimsical images by famed Oz illustrator W. W. Denslow. Young readers and listeners will be e...



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    “A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a short story by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz stories. In it, The Daemons of the caves, resentful of Santa Claus, who rebuffs their attempts to subvert him by temptation, capture him in his sleigh on Christmas Eve and...



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    The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book is the origin story of Santa Claus and persuasively explains how he began to deliver toys to children, why...




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    After they left the train, Colonel Hathaway and his granddaughter, Mary Louise stood silently upon the platform, their luggage beside them, and watched as the porters moved their their trunks from the baggage car. Then the train started, gathered ...



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    With 47 illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... The protago...



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    It is the nature of children to scorn realities, which crowd into their lives all too quickly with advancing years. Childhood is the time for fables, for dreams, for joy. These stories are not true; they could not be true and be so marvelous. No o...



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    The Eisner Award-winning creative team of Eric Shanower and Skottie Young bring you the best Oz series yet! Uncle Henry can''t pay the mortgage, so he, Aunt Em and Dorothy must leave their Kansas home. Where can they go? To the Land of Oz, of course!...



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    L. Frank Baum''s beloved classic gets the Marvel treatment! When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally flattens a Wicked Witch, liberates a living Scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great sorceres...



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    Little Miss Twinkle fell asleep just outside the badger's hole, watching to see what would happen when he faced the trap her father had laid for him. Then, with a start, she opened her eyes again, and saw the trap and the woodchuck hole just as th...



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    One day, Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, became separated from his comrades who had accompanied him from the Land of Oz. Finding that time hung heavy on his hands -- and he had four of them! -- he decided to walk down the Main Street of the City and try to ...



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    In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young c...



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    E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening....



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    From the author of The Wizard of Oz comes a delicious fantasy novel featuring a life-size gingerbread man named John Dough. All John Dough has to do is avoid being eaten by a crowd of gingerbread-loving characters! The tasty fellow journeys to the Is...



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    Sky Island is the sequel to Baum's The Sea Fairies. Trot is the young daughter of a California schooner captain. She is accompanied by Captain Bill -- an old sailor with a wooden leg who was her father's captain. Trot meets Button-Bright, a boy using...


Award-Winning Books by L. Frank Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz
2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award -- Adaptation
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award -- Kids


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

L. Frank Baum has published 92 books.

L. Frank Baum does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tamawaca Folks, was published in October 2019.

The first book by L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was published in January 1900.

No. L. Frank Baum does not write books in series.