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Over The Rainbow,

A Tribute To,

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

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L Frank Baum,
The Dreamer Of Oz
 

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L Frank Baum

Born: May 15th 1856, Chittenango, New York
 
Died: May 6th 1919, Hollywood, California
 
Occupation: Author, Newspaper Editor, Actor, Screenwriter, Film Producer
 
Spouse: Maude Gage
 
Children: Frank Joslyn Baum, Robert Stanton Baum, Harry Neal Baum, Kenneth Gage Baum
 
 

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Lyman Frank Baum is best known as the creator, along with illustrator  W.W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz , better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen

"Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as 'historical' in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer 'wonder tales' in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf, and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident." (Baum in the introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

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We're off to see the Wizard!