She suits the zeitgeist. 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 ...

All we’re saying is that you’d have to ... his publishers outsourced dozens more “Oz” books from other authors. Here are the 14 books in Baum’s original series: ...

While many young readers will be eager to devour all the Oz books, even adults should know a basic three. Begin, obviously, with “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (supplemented by Michael Patrick ...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (the book) has become so closely meshed with ... and its fruits are given rather than won; likability is all it amounts to. The literary gulf between "The Wonderful ...

And all of this was before the political and religious ax-grinders weighed in. "By the 1950s, most of the censorship attempts for the Oz books centered around anti-communist sentiment," Grunzke said.

You'll be off to see the Wizard, Dorothy, Toto and the rest of the Oz gang in literary form when the Friends of the West ...

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 10 things the book did ...

It's safe to say that most Americans are familiar with the classic film featuring a stumbling Scarecrow, a rusted Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and Dorothy, played by actress Judy Garland, clad in ...

The exhibit, which runs through March, will give fans a sense of all things Oz, starting with L. Frank Baum's 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, said Willard Carroll, a filmmaker from nearby ...

Looking for Oz? These days, you can't walk without tripping over it. There's "Wicked," of course. Part one of the gargantuan movie musical is in theaters now; part two drops November 21, 2025.

Interestingly, this also implies that in the book, Dorothy really did go to Oz, while the movie alludes to the idea that it ...