# The Road to Oz

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Book 5 of the Oz series. While Dorothy Gale is at home in Kansas one day, she and her pet dog Toto meet the Shaggy Man walking past the Gale farm. He politely asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, the nearest town on the prairie. The girl agrees to show him the way. Further on, the road splits into seven paths. They take the seventh one and ... thus starts another adventure. Warning: template has been deprecated.
The Road to Oz
In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road and followed it all the way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.
BY
L. FRANK BAUM "Royal Historian of Oz"

## To My Readers

Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book" about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written down, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.
In the preface to "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" I said I would like to write some stories that were not "Oz" stories, because I thought I had written about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published I have been fairly deluged with letters from children imploring me to "write more about Dorothy," and "more about Oz," and since I write only to please the children I shall try to respect their wishes.
There are some new characters in this book that ought to win your live. I'm very fond of the shaggy man myself, and I think you will like him, too. As for Polychrome—the Rainbow's Daughter—and stupid little Button-Bright, they seem to have brought a new element of fun into these Oz stories, and I am glad I discovered them. Yet I am anxious to have you write and tell me how you like them.
Since this book was written I have received some very remarkable News from The Land of Oz, which has greatly astonished me. I believe it will astonish you, too, my dears, when you hear it. But it is such a long and exciting story that it must be saved for another book—and perhaps that book will be the last story that will ever be told about the Land of Oz.
L. FRANK BAUM
Coronado, 1909.

### Contents

CHAPTER
* The Way to Butterfield
* Dorothy Meets Button-Bright
* A Queer Village
* King Dox
* The Rainbow's Daughter
* The City of Beasts
* The Shaggy Man's Transformation
* The Musicker
* Facing the Scoodlers
* Escaping the Soup-Kettle
* Johnny Dooit Does It
* The Deadly Desert Crossed
* The Truth Pond
* Tik-Tok and Billina
* The Emperor's Tin Castle
* Visiting the Pumpkin-Field
* The Royal Chariot Arrives
* The Emerald City
* The Shaggy Man's Welcome
* Princess Ozma of Oz
* Dorothy Receives the Guests
* Important Arrivals
* The Grand Banquet
* The Birthday Celebration
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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