The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Introduction

The Cyclone

The Council with the Munchkins

How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

The Road Through the Forest

The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

The Cowardly Lion

The Journey to the Great Oz

The Deadly Poppy Field

The Queen of the Field Mice

The Guardian of the Gate

The Wonderful City of Oz

The Search for the Wicked Witch

The Rescue

The Winged Monkeys

The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible

The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

How the Balloon Was Launched

Away to the South

Attacked by the Fighting Trees

The Dainty China Country

The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts

The Country of the Quadlings

Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish

Home Again

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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

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"Oz himself is the Great Wizard," answered the Witch, sinking her voice to a whisper. "He is more powerful than all the rest of us together. He lives in the City of Emeralds."

Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchkins, who had been standing silently by, gave a loud shout and pointed to the corner of the house where the Wicked Witch had been lying.

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