Virtually all of today's "Oz" variations take off, not from the Baum books, but from the 1939 movie, where Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch stole the show. Baum's books are still in print.

Frank Baum published 14 books over the next 20 years in the “Oz” series. In 1939, it was famously adapted into a movie starring Judy Garland, revolutionizing the use of color in cinema.

Virtually all of today's "Oz" variations take off, not from the Baum books, but from the 1939 movie, where Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch stole the show. Baum's books are still in print.

A complete set of first editions of Chittenango native L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" books will be sold for more than $30,000 at a "Wizard of Oz" auction from Heritage Auctions.

But however much the tribute to Oz exceeds the tribute to Narnia in sumptuousness, it can’t disguise the superiority of Lewis’ book. As a child, I loved Oz’s endless cavalcade of strange ...

Q: Enclosed is a photo of books that I have had for years. All are in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. The titles are "Tik-Tok of Oz" (1908), "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" (1914), and "Glinda of ...

Once in a while authorship runs in the family.Kingsley Amis` son Martin is now nearly as well-known in England and considered ever so much more with-it.We Americans can point proudly to mother-and ...

That's the mantra of Glinda, "Wicked's" bubbly good witch. And it applies, equally, to the "Oz" stories where she made her first appearance. They've always been popular. With children, parents ...

All of these clues tell us that the timeline of "Wicked" the book and musical starts about forty years before the events of "The Wizard of Oz." While all five pieces of material (the original ...

The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of the most famous films of all time—but it differs quite a bit from the novel on which it was based, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Here are ...