Visitors from Oz
Subtitle: the wild adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman
By: Martin Gardner.
Contributors: Baum, L. Frank 1856-1919.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.; Kidnapping -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Ever since The Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900, Dorothy and her companions have captured the imaginations of Americans. By placing the story in Manhattan of the late 1990s, with cameo appearances by Rudy Giuliani, Oprah Winfrey, and Geraldo Rivera, Gardner has for the first time ingeniously adapted Baum's immortal characters to an American setting.

The purpose of their visit to Earth is to publicize a new musical film about Oz. But plans go awry when two evil mobsters, hired by a wicked rival movie producer, try to kill Dorothy and her companions. Combining vivid suspense with a host of mathematical riddles and technological pyrotechnics, Martin Gardner has created a new fable in the finest traditions of L. Frank Baum that celebrates the power of imagination and the lure of an ageless heroine named Dorothy at the turn of a new century.
Notes: Col. maps on endpapers.
Sequel to: The wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.