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Over The Rainbow, A Tribute To, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
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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