Items from the Wish List: L. Frank Baum

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus: With Illustrations by Eric Shanower

Collects both of L. Frank Baum's classic tales featuring Santa Claus: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and A Kidnapped Santa Clause with beautiful spot illustrations by acclaimed artist Eric Shanower. - Amazon.

The Visitors from Oz Hardcover by L. Frank Baum (Author), Eric Shanower (Illustrator)

This brand new edition of THE VISITORS FROM OZ includes all 27 episodes of Baum's 1904 "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz" short stories plus the complete, uncensored text of Baum's 1905 The Wogglebug Book. These stories were written more than a hundred years ago and they reflect the society of their time. This beautiful hardcover volume contains an additional twenty pages of material including Baum's original 1904 "publicity" articles, an informative Afterword by David Maxine, and much more! The 1961 VISITORS FROM OZ picture book by Dick Martin contained heavily rewritten versions of only half of Baum's 1904 originals! The stories were next collected in the 1986 volume THE THIRD BOOK OF OZ, but that volume contained a heavily edited version of THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK and altered versions of some of the Visitors stories. This new edition is the absolute FIRST to include ALL of Baum's original unexpurgated text -- and the first ever to be presented in traditional Oz book format! This is the first edition, too, that includes ALL of Eric Shanower's illustrations for these stories! The two previous editions of THE THIRD BOOK OF OZ each contained drawings not included in the other. And Eric Shanower has drawn a number of NEW illustrations just for this definitive edition! – Amazon.

Sky Island by L. Frank Baum

“With "The Sea Fairies," my book for 1911, I ventured into a new field of fairy literature and to my delight the book was received with much approval by my former readers, many of whom have written me that they like Trot "almost as well as Dorothy." As Dorothy was an old, old friend and Trot a new one, I think this is very high praise for Cap'n Bill's little companion. Cap'n Bill is also a new character who seems to have won approval, and so both Trot and the old sailor are again introduced in the present story, which may be called the second of the series of adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill.

“But you will recognize some other acquaintances in "Sky Island." Here, for instance, is Button-Bright, who once had an adventure with Dorothy in Oz, and without Button-Bright and his Magic Umbrella you will see that the story of "Sky Island" could never have been written. As Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, lives in the sky, it is natural that Trot and Button-Bright meet her during their adventures there.” – L. Frank Baum. – Amazon.

John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum  (Author), Taylor Anderson (Editor)

John Dough and the Cherub is a children's fantasy novel written by American author L. Frank Baum, about a living gingerbread man and his adventures. It was illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1906 by the Reilly & Britton Company. The story was serialized in the Washington Sunday Star and other newspapers from October to December 1906. Like the Oz books but unlike many of the author's other works, John Dough was issued under Baum's name rather than one of his pseudonyms. The book was popular; as late as 1919 it was selling 1500 copies a year. The 1974 Dover Publications edition features an introduction by Martin Gardner. – Amazon.

The Enchanted Island of Yew: Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People by L. Frank Baum  (Author), Taylor Anderson (Editor)

The Enchanted Island of Yew: Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory, and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1903.
The first edition contained eight color plates and many colored-ink illustrations stamped over the text, and was dedicated to Kenneth Gage Baum, the youngest of the author's four sons. – Amazon.