I think the stories themselves are lovely, and I especially loved reading the Author's Notes where L. Frank Baum actually took ideas from his readers who wrote him letters. It's not only a way to show how times were different then but it also just kind of makes your heart happy to think of some little boy or girl wanting a certain character written into a story, and low and behold they're written in.
I think for the time, and for the audience, these are great stories. They're interesting and adventurous and realistic (considering the use of magic throughout). I'm not typically one to read "adventure" or "fantasy" genres but I still enjoyed these stories. I will admit reading through character descriptions did get tedious, but again, I was reading these stories back to back whereas when they were being produced they were only being published once every few years! (Crazy to think about that as well!)
September 12, 2017 – Started Reading
April 10, 2018 – Finished Reading
For the sake of curiosity (and record) I'm going to type out the lists found at the back of the book showing the original 14 canon stories, and all of the successors, as well as the "related" works of literature, and the list of movies:
Original 14 Canon by L. Frank Buam
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
3. Ozma of Oz (1907)
4. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908)
5. The Road to Oz (1909)
6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
11. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
13. The Magic of Oz (1919)
14. Glinda of Oz (1920)
Books by Ruth Plumly Thompson
15. The Royal Book of Oz (1921)
16. Kabumpo in Oz (1922)
17. The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923)
18. Grampa in Oz (1924)
19. The Lost King of Oz (1925)
20. The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926)
21. The Gnome King of Oz (1927)
22. The Giant Horse of Oz (1928)
23. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929)
24. The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930)
25. Pirates in Oz (1931)
26. The Purple Prince of Oz (1932)
27. Ojo in Oz (1933)
28. Speedy in Oz (1934)
29. The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935)
30. Captain Salt in Oz (1936)
31. Handy Mandy in Oz (1937)
32. The Silver Princess in oz (1938)
33. Ozplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)
Books by John R. Neill
34. The Wonder City of Oz (1940)
35. The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
36. Lucky Bekcy in Oz (1942)
Books by Jack Snow
37. The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946)
38. The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949)
Books by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
39. The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951)
Books by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
40. Merry Go Round in Oz (1963)
Books by Sherwood Smith
41. The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005)
42. Trouble Under Oz (2006)
43. Sky Pirates of Oz (TBA)
Oz Related Works
By L. Frank Baum
The Magical Monarch of Mo (1900)
American Fairy Tales (1901)
Dot and Tot of Merryland (1901)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904, newspaper comic)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Queen Zixi of Ix (1905)
John Dough and the Cherub (1906)
The Sea Fairies (1911)
Sky Island (1912)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, short stories)
Other "Royal Historians"
Yankee in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (1972)
The Enchanted Island of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson (1976)
The Forbidden Fountain of Oz - Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren Lynn McGraw (1980)
The Wicked Witch of Oz - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1993)
The Runaway in Oz - John R. Neill (1995)
Percy and the Shrinking Violet - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1997)
Spots in Oz - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1997)
The Rundelstone of Oz - Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2001)
Inspired by Oz: The Wicked Years
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995)
Son of a Witch (2005)
A Lion Among Men (2008)
Out of Oz (2011)
Oz on Flim
Film Adaptations
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908 multimedia presentation by L. Frank Baum)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 15-minute film based on stage musical by Otis Turner)
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914 adaptation by Baum that became the basis for the book The Scarecrow of Oz)
The Wizard of Oz (1921 film project directed by Ray C Smallwood, but never completed
Wizard of Oz (1925 film, directed by Larry Semon in collaboration with Frank Joslyn Baum)
The Land of Oz (1932 film, sequel to the Wizard of Oz)
The Wizard of Oz (1933 animated short directed by Ted Eshbaugh)
The Wizard of Oz (1939 musical film by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming)
Journey Back to Oz (1974 animated film, unofficial sequel to the 1939 film)
FantasiaE3 (1966 Spanish film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia, one segment is loosely based on The Wizard of Oz)
Aysecik ve Sihirli CYceler RYyalar tlkesinde (1971 Turkish film, directed by Tun Basaran known to bootleggers as "The Turkish Wizard of Oz"
Once Upon a Time (1976 film, loosely based upon, and also pays homage to The Wizard of Oz)
Oz (1976 Austrailian rock musical film, also known as Oz D A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie or 20th Century Oz)
The Wiz (1978 movie directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the Broadway musical of the same name)
Return to Oz (1985 film by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Walter Murch)
The Muppets' World of Oz (2005)
Apocalypse Oz (2006, short film parody of The Wizard of Oz and Apocalypse Now)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013 film by Walt Disney Pictures prequel to the 1939 film, directed by Sam Raimi)
Television Adaptations
The Land of Oz (1960 premier episode of The Shirley Temple Show, written by Frank Gabrielson and directed by William Corrigan. William Asher produced)
Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961 animated series of short episodes based on the Oz characters from the book)
Off to See the Wizard (1967 television anthology series which showcased then-recent MGM family films)
Return to Oz (1964 animated television special sequel-cum-remake of the 1939 film, based on the artistic renderings of the characters in the 1961 animated series)
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz aka Dorothy in the Land of Oz (1980 animated television special)
A feature-length anime adaptation of the story was made by Toho in 1982 and was directed by Fumihiko Takayama, with music by Joe Hisaishi.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 anime adaptation of four of Baum's Oz books, consists of 52 episodes and follows the story of Dorothy and her adventures in Oz. In 1987 HBO purchased rights to the series and dubbed/edited together key episodes of the series into a series of movies.)
The Wizard of Oz (1990-1991 an animated series based on the 1939 film, broadcast on ABC)
The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990, anime series involving Dorothy and the gang traveling to the "Galaxy of Oz", dubbed for American Release as The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz)
Sugar & Spice: The Wizard of Oz (1991 animated adaptation, part of the Funky Fables series by Saban Entertainment)
The Wizard of Oz (1995 adaptation made for British television set in the present day)
The Oz Kids (1996 animated series by Hyperion Pictures and Nelvana featuring children of the original characters)
Adventures in the Emerald City (1999-2000 animated series directed by Alexander Makarov, Ilya Maximov and Denis Chernov)
Lost in Oz (2002 television pilot by Tim Burton, never broadcast, it is a sequel to the 1939 film)
In the Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest II", a retelling of the story is shown as a dream of Leela's with the cast of the show)
Tin Man (2007 Sci-fi Channel miniseries by RHI Entertainment, portrays a future version of Oz, thereby making the miniseries both a sequel and a re-imagining)
W krainie czarnoksiezniki Oza - Polish Television adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz was only broadcast in Poland
Ozenders - A Children in Need (episode of EastEnders)
2006 Episode of the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven titled "Soup to Nuts", Raven sees herself in a parody of The Wizard of Oz
The Witches of Oz (2011 television miniseries directed by Leigh Scott, based on the novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Magic of Oz by Baum)
In The Suite Life on Deck episode titled "Twister: Part 2", Bailey has a dream based on The Wizard of Oz.
Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011 is a Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film)
Raising Hope "Bro-gurt" (2011)
Victorious (parody of The Wizard of Oz
Rugrats episode No Place Like Home
MADtv there are at least three parodies
Phineas and Ferb episode entitled "Wizard of Odd"
Stage Adaptations
The first musical version of the book was produced by Baum and Denslow in 1902, The Woggle-Bug (1905 and The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) both were panned as rehashes rather than sequels.
The Wizard of Oz (1942 musical using songs from the 1939 film)
Holiday on Ice (1959) included a condensed version of The Wizard of Oz
The Wiz (1975 musical exclusively featuring African American actors)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981 musical by Thomas W. Olson, Gary Briggle, and Richard Dworsky)
The Wizard of Oz (1987 - 1989 is an adaptation by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company based on the novel and 1939 film)
The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987 adaptation of the Oz story which serves as an AIDS education tool)
The Wizard of Oz Live (1989-1990 is an arena touring production in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary)
The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995 concert performance of a Royal Shakespeare Company's adaption at Lincoln Center)
The Wizard on ice (1995-1999 produced by Kenneth Feld)
The Wizard of Oz on Tour (1998 touring production of the 1987 RSC version that originally played in the Madison Square Garden theatre in may 1997)
Wicked (2003 - Present Broadway and West End musical based on the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire)
Der Zauberer von Oz (2005 stage play)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000 Musical)
Dothy et Le Magicien d'Oz (2009 musical spectacular)
The Wizard of Oz (2011 West End musical building on the 1939 film songs and script with new materiel by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Oz - The Wonderful Wizard )2011 ballet by Italian choreographer Giorgio Madia)
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