{"product_id":"2940013484504","title":"Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz","description":"\"Royal Historian of Oz\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   --To My Readers--\u003cbr\u003e   1.  The Earthquake\u003cbr\u003e   2.  The Glass City\u003cbr\u003e   3.  The Arrival of the Wizard\u003cbr\u003e   4.  The Vegetable Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e   5.  Dorothy Picks the Princess\u003cbr\u003e   6.  The Mangaboos Prove Dangerous\u003cbr\u003e   7.  Into the Black Pit and Out Again\u003cbr\u003e   8.  The Valley of Voices\u003cbr\u003e   9.  They Fight the Invisible Bears\u003cbr\u003e  10.  The Braided Man of Pyramid Mountain\u003cbr\u003e  11.  They Meet the Wooden Gargoyles\u003cbr\u003e  12.  A Wonderful Escape\u003cbr\u003e  13.  The Den of the Dragonettes\u003cbr\u003e  14.  Ozma Uses the Magic Belt\u003cbr\u003e  15.  Old Friends are Reunited\u003cbr\u003e  16.  Jim, the Cab-Horse\u003cbr\u003e  17.  The Nine Tiny Piglets\u003cbr\u003e  18.  The Trial of Eureka, the Kitten\u003cbr\u003e  19.  The Wizard Performs Another Trick\u003cbr\u003e  20.  Zeb Returns to the Ranch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo My Readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's no use; no use at all.  The children won't let me stop telling\u003cbr\u003etales of the Land of Oz.  I know lots of other stories, and I hope to\u003cbr\u003etell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won't\u003cbr\u003eallow me.  They cry: \"Oz--Oz! more about Oz, Mr. Baum!\" and what can I\u003cbr\u003edo but obey their commands?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Our Book--mine and the children's.  For they have flooded me\u003cbr\u003ewith thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly\u003cbr\u003etried to adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one\u003cbr\u003estory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the wonderful success of \"Ozma of Oz\" it is evident that Dorothy\u003cbr\u003ehas become a firm fixture in these Oz stories.  The little ones all\u003cbr\u003elove Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: \"It isn't a\u003cbr\u003ereal Oz story without her.\"  So here she is again, as sweet and gentle\u003cbr\u003eand innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange\u003cbr\u003eadventure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were many requests from my little correspondents for \"more about\u003cbr\u003ethe Wizard.\"  It seems the jolly old fellow made hosts of friends in\u003cbr\u003ethe first Oz book, in spite of the fact that he frankly acknowledged\u003cbr\u003ehimself \"a humbug.\"  The children had heard how he mounted into the sky\u003cbr\u003ein a balloon and they were all waiting for him to come down again.  So\u003cbr\u003ewhat could I do but tell \"what happened to the Wizard afterward\"?  You\u003cbr\u003ewill find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was one thing the children demanded which I found it impossible\u003cbr\u003eto do in this present book: they bade me introduce Toto, Dorothy's\u003cbr\u003elittle black dog, who has many friends among my readers.  But you will\u003cbr\u003esee, when you begin to read the story, that Toto was in Kansas while\u003cbr\u003eDorothy was in California, and so she had to start on her adventure\u003cbr\u003ewithout him.  In this book Dorothy had to take her kitten with her\u003cbr\u003einstead of her dog; but in the next Oz book, if I am permitted to write\u003cbr\u003eone, I intend to tell a good deal about Toto's further history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrincess Ozma, whom I love as much as my readers do, is again\u003cbr\u003eintroduced in this story, and so are several of our old friends of Oz.\u003cbr\u003eYou will also become acquainted with Jim the Cab-Horse, the Nine Tiny\u003cbr\u003ePiglets, and Eureka, the Kitten.  I am sorry the kitten was not as well\u003cbr\u003ebehaved as she ought to have been; but perhaps she wasn't brought up\u003cbr\u003eproperly.  Dorothy found her, you see, and who her parents were nobody\u003cbr\u003eknows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI believe, my dears, that I am the proudest story-teller that ever\u003cbr\u003elived.  Many a time tears of pride and joy have stood in my eyes while\u003cbr\u003eI read the tender, loving, appealing letters that came to me in almost\u003cbr\u003eevery mail from my little readers.  To have pleased you, to have\u003cbr\u003einterested you, to have won your friendship, and perhaps your love,\u003cbr\u003ethrough my stories, is to my mind as great an achievement as to become\u003cbr\u003ePresident of the United States.  Indeed, I would much rather be your\u003cbr\u003estory-teller, under these conditions, than to be the President.  So you\u003cbr\u003ehave helped me to fulfill my life's ambition, and I am more grateful to\u003cbr\u003eyou, my dears, than I can express in words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI try to answer every letter of my young correspondents; yet sometimes\u003cbr\u003ethere are so many letters that a little time must pass before you get\u003cbr\u003eyour answer.  But be patient, friends, for the answer will surely come,\u003cbr\u003eand by writing to me you more than repay me for the pleasant task of\u003cbr\u003epreparing these books.  Besides, I am proud to acknowledge that the\u003cbr\u003ebooks are partly yours, for your suggestions often guide me in telling\u003cbr\u003ethe stories, and I am sure they would not be half so good without your\u003cbr\u003eclever and thoughtful assistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL. FRANK BAUM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoronado, 1908.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.  The Earthquake","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145650225392,"sku":"2940013484504","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013484504_p0.jpg?v=1763581502","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013484504","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}