The Wizard of OzThe Wizard of OzBy L. Frank Baum

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Author

• L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)

• Born in 1856 at Chittenango, New York

• Heart condition is not good

• A timid and shy boy

L. Frank Baum

• At age 5: moved to Rose Lawn Estate, a country home near Chittenango (his father had made a fortune out of oil )

• Never used his first name (he preferred Frank)

L. Frank Baum

• Read fairy tales and British writers voraciously, especially enjoyed Dickens

• He criticized the fairy tales that were frightening and horrifying

• Frank made the decision: he would write a different kind of fairy tale

L. Frank Baum

• His parents sent him away to a strict military school

• Suffering a heart attack or a nervous breakdown

• Finally withdraw from Peekskill

• Began to nurture Frank’s creative interests

First Children’s Book

First children's book:

Mother Goose In Prose (1897)

The Last Book

•Glinda of Oz : (1920) Frank's fourteenth book in the Oz series

• Died in 1919 at his home in Hollywood,California

Published in September 1900

Illustrated by W.W. Denslow

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Surrounded by eight of Frank’s early books

Original Artwork for the Wizard by Denslow

Original Artwork for the Wizard by Denslow

1. Dorothy

2. Toto

3. Scarecrow

Characters

4. Tin Woodsman

5. Cowardly Lion

6. The Wizard of Oz

7. The Witch of the West

The Witch of the South

SUMMARY

• Dorothy lives on a Kansas farm

with her uncle Henry and Aunt E

m and her little dog Toto.

• a frightening cyclone appears, D

orothy unable to reach the storm

cellar in time

• landing in the mysterious field in the country of the Munchkins

• the house killing the Wicked Witch of the East

• The Witch of the North

greeting Dorothy and

gives her the silver shoes

• the good witch of the

North recommending

Dorothy follow the Yellow

Brick Road to the city of

Emeralds and asking the

wizard of Oz to help her

• Dorothy meets

the Scarecrow-a brain

the Tin Woodman- a heart

the Cowardly Lion- courage.

• the Wizard appearing each time as someone or something different

• the wizard agreeing to help each of them, but one of them must kill the Wicked Witch of the West

• The Wicked Witch’s attacks failed. Dorothy killing the bad witch, and getting the golden cap

• back to the Emerald

City and discovering

the truth of the

Wizard

•he still agrees to give them what they want

• The Good Witch of

the South may be

able to send Dorothy

and Toto home.

• Oz have to take them home with him in

hot air balloon again. But Dorothy and

Toto miss the rising hot air balloon.

• the silver shoes Dorothy wears can take her anywhere

• Dorothy and Toto returning to Kansas

The Scarecrow - Leader of Emerald city

The Tin woodman - Leader of West

The Cowardly Lion - King to the forest.

Theme

Friendship Adventure ** To see is to believe? “How can I help being a humbug when all these people

make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?” said Oz. (p.111)

Symbol

The yellow brick road

Dorothy’s silver shoes