Along the yellow brick road.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is also known as the “Wizard of Oz”.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fantasy children’s book by L. Frank Baum, an American, and was illustrated by W.W. Denslow.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published on 17 May 1900 by George M. Hill Company, in Chicago.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had sold one million (1,000,000) copies by 1938 and three million (3,000,000) copies by 1958.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is about girl named Dorothy who finds herself in a new magical world and needs to find a way home, meeting the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion on her travels.
- The name ‘Oz’ from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz came from Baum’s filing cabinet label “O-Z”.
- Many parts of Baum’s life experiences are included in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been translated into over fifty languages.
- Baum created 13 sequels of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, at the urging of his numerous young fans.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first made into a musical in 1902, and also made into the famous 1939 film, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, which was not the first screen adaptation.
Bibliography:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 20 March 2013, Wikipedia,<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz>
