wizard of oz

  • The Wizard of Oz Book Series Index

    The Wizard of Oz book universe is a larger thing than you may know! There’s the original books written by L. Frank Baum, then there’s the spinoffs and sibling books, and THEN there’s the rest of the “official Oz” books written by authors approved by the publisher after Baum’s death in the 1920s. If you’ve only every heard of the original book (and maybe a few others), you may be surprised at how many books are actually out there! This post is an index of all the official Oz books, which include the “Famous Forty” official books, as well as…

  • 26 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Full Color Pages

    These were collected from the digitized version of the 1900 edition of The Wizard of Oz on the Library of Congress website. In that edition, all the illustrations were done by W.W. Denslow— you’ll probably recognize them because they’re used heavily in Oz products! As for this post: I downloaded each image individually, lightly edited them (keeping the vintage aged paper look), then re-uploaded them here! All these illustrations are in the public domain, so you can use them for personal or commercial things. If you do use them, it’d be nice to credit the original artist, W.W. Denslow. I…

  • Author L. Frank Baum Book Index

    Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children’s fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. (Source: Wikipedia) This is an index of the Baum books that are available for download on Project Gutenberg. I personally find PG a little difficult to look through when I’m focused on a specific author or topic, so indexes like…