Little Dorothy (she doesn't get a last name until a later book) gets swept up in a tornado to the magical Land of Oz, where she gets a little help from her friends in reaching the Emerald City. We know the story, of course, and it's printed here along with the original illustrations, in their original color.
Hearn has earned his bona fides, and is an expert on both Baum and children's literature in general-he's written other annotations, and I can't imagine how much time it takes to track down so much information. Most of this was in a period of about twenty years.īut much of the writing in this volume is by Michael Patrick Hearn, who did a deep dive into Baum's life and works. Frank Baum, who in his relatively short life wrote 14 novels about Oz, in addition to 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 stage and movie scripts. There were actually two other "Wizard of Oz" movies before Judy Garland danced down the Yellow Brick Road. For those of you who think the whole thing began at MGM in 1939, "centennial edition" means it came out in 2000-exactly one hundred years after " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was originally published.
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