{"product_id":"2940013500198","title":"The Road to Oz","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   --To My Readers--\u003cbr\u003e   1.  The Way to Butterfield\u003cbr\u003e   2.  Dorothy Meets Button-Bright\u003cbr\u003e   3.  A Queer Village\u003cbr\u003e   4.  King Dox\u003cbr\u003e   5.  The Rainbow's Daughter\u003cbr\u003e   6.  The City of Beasts\u003cbr\u003e   7.  The Shaggy Man's Transformation\u003cbr\u003e   8.  The Musicker\u003cbr\u003e   9.  Facing the Scoodlers\u003cbr\u003e  10.  Escaping the Soup-Kettle\u003cbr\u003e  11.  Johnny Dooit Does It\u003cbr\u003e  12.  The Deadly Desert Crossed\u003cbr\u003e  13.  The Truth Pond\u003cbr\u003e  14.  Tik-Tok and Billina\u003cbr\u003e  15.  The Emperor's Tin Castle\u003cbr\u003e  16.  Visiting the Pumpkin-Field\u003cbr\u003e  17.  The Royal Chariot Arrives\u003cbr\u003e  18.  The Emerald City\u003cbr\u003e  19.  The Shaggy Man's Welcome\u003cbr\u003e  20.  Princess Ozma of Oz\u003cbr\u003e  21.  Dorothy Receives the Guests\u003cbr\u003e  22.  Important Arrivals\u003cbr\u003e  23.  The Grand Banquet\u003cbr\u003e  24.  The Birthday Celebration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo My Readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another \"Oz Book\"\u003cbr\u003eabout Dorothy's strange adventures.  Toto is in this story, because you\u003cbr\u003ewanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will\u003cbr\u003erecognize are in the story, too.  Indeed, the wishes of my little\u003cbr\u003ecorrespondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if\u003cbr\u003ethe story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you\u003cbr\u003emust remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written\u003cbr\u003edown, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the preface to \"Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz\" I said I would like to\u003cbr\u003ewrite some stories that were not \"Oz\" stories, because I thought I had\u003cbr\u003ewritten about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published I\u003cbr\u003ehave been fairly deluged with letters from children imploring me to\u003cbr\u003e\"write more about Dorothy,\" and \"more about Oz,\" and since I write only\u003cbr\u003eto please the children I shall try to respect their wishes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are some new characters in this book that ought to win your live.\u003cbr\u003eI'm very fond of the shaggy man myself, and I think you will like him,\u003cbr\u003etoo.  As for Polychrome--the Rainbow's Daughter--and stupid little\u003cbr\u003eButton-Bright, they seem to have brought a new element of fun into\u003cbr\u003ethese Oz stories, and I am glad I discovered them.  Yet I am anxious to\u003cbr\u003ehave you write and tell me how you like them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince this book was written I have received some very remarkable News\u003cbr\u003efrom The Land of Oz, which has greatly astonished me.  I believe it\u003cbr\u003ewill astonish you, too, my dears, when you hear it.  But it is such a\u003cbr\u003elong and exciting story that it must be saved for another book--and\u003cbr\u003eperhaps that book will be the last story that will ever be told about\u003cbr\u003ethe Land of Oz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL. FRANK BAUM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoronado, 1909.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.  The Way to Butterfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Please, miss,\" said the shaggy man, \"can you tell me the road to\u003cbr\u003eButterfield?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy looked him over.  Yes, he was shaggy, all right, but there was\u003cbr\u003ea twinkle in his eye that seemed pleasant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh yes,\" she replied; \"I can tell you.  But it isn't this road at all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No?\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079561199856,"sku":"2940013500198","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013500198_p0.jpg?v=1763582257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013500198","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}