About the Oz books

• The Oz Project — an attempt to catalog every Oz and Oz-related book ever published (archived edition)

• A Literary History of Oz

• L. Frank Baum and the Origin of Oz

• 10 Classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Bestsellers Originally Rejected by Publishers

• The manuscript of Glinda of Oz at the Library of Congress

• The alt.books.wizard-of-oz newsgroup

• The rec.arts.books.childrens newsgroup — ask or answer Ozzy questions here
  • The rec.arts.books.childrens list of FAQs*

• The history of Bobbs-Merrill, which started publishing The Wizard of Oz in 1903

• Books of Common Focus, an archive of bulletin board discussions of the Oz (and many related) books

• The Royal Timeline of Oz

• The Historically Accurate Chronological Chain (HACC) — an attempt to put all of the Oz stories into chronological order (archived edition)

• The animated books of Julian Wehr, including his take on The Wizard of Oz

• A current-day review of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• A Culture Map of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• A minimalist interpretation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• The differences between the book and movie versions of The Wizard of Oz

• Five alternative readings of The Wizard of Oz

• Oz book reviews

• Mari Ness reviews all forty of the regular Oz books, as well as:
  • The Master Key
  • The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  • The Magical Monarch of Mo
  • Queen Zixi of Ix
  • John Dough and the Cherub
  • The Sea Fairies
  • Sky Island
  • The Enchanted Island of Oz
  • The Runaway in Oz
  • The Forbidden Fountain of Oz
  • The Rundelstone of Oz

• Jackson Hines, six-year old Oz book reviewer:
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • The Marvelous Land of Oz
  • Ozma of Oz (and Return to Oz)
  • Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

• Review of Queen Ann in Oz

• A modern mother reads The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with her children

• The Hungry Reader looks at:
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Baum's life and career between Oz books
  • The Marvelous Land of Oz
  • …with more to come!

• David revisits Oz

• Why some people want The Wonderful Wizard of Oz banned

• Issues in Oz censorship

• Thirty banned books that may surprise you

• A 1904 newspaper article about Oz

• NPR Book Club reads The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• A new look for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• Time lapse of the creation of a new cover for The Wizard of Oz for Puffin

• Which other Oz book inspired the writing of Merry Go Round in Oz?

• The original prices of the Oz books

• The Magic Land texts (in Russian) — [А] [B]

• A bibliography of articles about Volkov (in Russian)

• An interview with Volkov's son (in Russian)

• An interview with Leonid Vladimirski, the primary illustrator of the Magic Land books (in Russian)

• Post-Volkov Magic Land texts (in Russian)

• Emerald City, a site devoted to Magic Land — [Russian] [English] [German] [Ukranian]

• Smaragdenstadt Fanpage, devoted to Magic Land, Oz, and Wicked (in German)

• Essay comparing Baum and Volkov's versions of Wizard

• Latter-day Oz author March Laumer

• Robert Sabuda, the creator of the 2000 pop-up edition of The Wizard of Oz

• Big Little books, including the very rare Oz book The Laughing Dragon of Oz

• Websites and videos devoted to new Oz and Oz-themed books:
  • The Wisdom of Oz, by L. Frank Baum's great-granddaughter
  • The Wizard of Oz Revealed
  • Hey, Dorothy, You're Not in Kansas Anymore
  • The Oz Catalog
  • The Lost in Oz trilogy
  • If I Only Had a Brain Injury
  • Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Society
  • The Emerald Burrito of Oz on MySpace
  • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
  • Shadows of the Emerald City, an anthology of Oz-themed short horror stories
  • Book: Northern Oz
  • Silver Shoes
    • ...on YouTube
    • ...on Facebook
    • the book's blog
  • Dorothy: The Darker Side of Oz
  • The Wogglebug's Book of Manners of Oz
  • The Way of Oz
  • The Oz House
  • The Trouble with Bricks
  • The Law of Oz
  • The Wizard of Oz, Where Is He Now?
  • Fantasy Baseball
  • 1899 L. Frank Baum’s Oz-Inspiring Macatawa Park
  • The Wonderful World of Oz: An Illustrated History of the American Classic
  • Dorothy Must Die — [Trailer] [Publisher's website] [Review from USA Today] [Why the author wrote it]

• The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert, inspired in part by the Wizard of Oz

• Behind the scenes of Anne Hathaway's new audiobook reading of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• Book review: Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

• Book review: Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum

• Book review: The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

• Book reviews: Santa Claus in Oz and The Red Gorilla of Oz

• Book review: The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007

• Book Review: The Ruby Slippers by Keir Alexander

• The Color Spectrum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (part of a series on many classic books)

• Kathleen Krull, author of a children's biography of Baum

• A chat with Oz researcher and author Jay Scarfone

• Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz, the collected edition of the 1904-05 comic page

• The Wizard of Oz in Japan

• Ozma of Oz in Japan

• New Oz translation in Japan (in Japanese)

• A celebration of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

• NPR's Top 25 Fantasy Books — includes a particularly Ozzy entry

• NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books — includes one Oz-related book

• Author Mary Miller's Ten Best Road Books (take a look at number 6)

* FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Question(s)

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