

She meets a living Scarecrow, a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly Lion while trying to get to the Emerald City to see the great Wizard. Frank Baumĭorothy gets swept into the Land of Oz by a cyclone. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. List of "canonical" Oz books ("The Famous Forty") Others, including Volkov and Maguire's are listed below. The following list therefore contains Oz books written by the authors of the first "Famous Forty" (including those published in later years). Then there are the "revisionist" books of Gregory Maguire. Volkov, or the books of Frank Baum's great-grandson, Roger S. There are also alternative series of Oz books, such as the sequels written in Russian by Alexander M. Some small publishers have even specialised in publishing Oz pastiches, of which the most commercial are probably Books of Wonder, Hungry Tiger Press, and The International Wizard of Oz Club-and perhaps the graphic novels of Eric Shanower.

In fact, so many additional Oz books have been written, that merely attempting to document all such books is a weighty endeavor in and of itself (see: External links). Frank Baum's titles), numerous other books have been written in the series by many authors and publishers, some of whom continue to publish new works today. As the earlier works have fallen out of copyright into the public domain (including all of L. Other books were printed later, by different publishing houses. Most of the books in the "Famous Forty" were published by Reilly and Britton (later Reilly and Lee). Frank Baum, another nineteen by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and another seven books by various other authors comprise the "Famous Forty", which is considered the classic original series (though many inconsistencies make it difficult to call it canonical). The first fourteen books by the original author, L. Many other authors have put their own twists on Oz, notably Gregory Maguire's revisionist Wicked. Later authors wrote 26 other "official" books after Baum's death. Although most of the Oz books are strictly adventures, Baum-as well as many later Oz authors-styled themselves as "Royal Historians" of Oz.

Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen Oz books. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and that relates the "history" of the Land of Oz.
