The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Also known as The Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

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"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a 1900 children's fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum about a Kansas farm girl named Dorothy who is swept away by a cyclone to a magical land, where she must destroy the Wicked Witch of the West to return home. As the first book in the Oz series, it became a foundational work of American children's literature that has remained popular for over a century.

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Commons category: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
inception: 1900-00-00
title: Czarnoksiężnik z Krainy Oz
publication date: 1900-00-00
first line: Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by the American author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

The book was first published in the United States in September 1900 by the George M. Hill Company. It had sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956. It was often reprinted under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the successful 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the 1939 live-action film.