Oz (series)

The **Oz series** is a series of children’s books by L. Frank Baum. Baum wrote fourteen *Oz* books. Baum said he wrote them because he wanted there to be fairy tales which weren’t scary. His first book was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which he wrote in 1900.

After Baum's death in 1919, publisher Reilly & Lee made annual *Oz* books, In 1921, Royal Historian Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote nineteen *Oz* books. After Thompson, Reilly & Lee made seven more books in the series: three by John R. Neill, two by Jack Snow, one by Rachel R.C. Payes, and a final book by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw. The forty books in Reilly & Lee's *Oz* series are called "the Famous Forty" by fans, and are considered the canonical *Oz* texts.

## Books by L. Frank Baum
### *Oz* books
### Story compilations and other works
Thompson wrote two additional novels in the 1970s which are not included in the "Famous Forty": *Yankee in Oz* (1972) and *The Enchanted Island of Oz* (1976), both published by the International Wizard of Oz Club.

### Books by John R. Neill
Illustrator John R. Neill's vision of Oz is more manic than Thompson or Baum's. Houses often get up and do battle, and everything can be alive. His entries take Oz's color scheme (blue for Munchkin Country, red for Quadling Country, etc.)  to an extreme, extending it to sky and skin colors.

### Books by Jack Snow
Jack Snow was a Baum scholar, and even offered to take over the series at age twelve when Baum died. Snow's books lack any characters created by Thompson or Neill, although he did create his own.

### Book by Rachel R.C. Payes
### Book by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
## Additional books
### Books published by the International Wizard of Oz Club 
### Books recognized by L. Frank Baum's Family Trust
### Additional books by the earlier writers 
### Books by other writers 
Some are in line with the originals, while others deviate in various ways.

## Alternate *Oz* books 
Below are some books that deal with alternate versions of Oz, which do not follow the *Oz* canon originally established by L. Frank Baum.

### Books by Gregory Maguire
### Books by Alexander Volkov
Alexander Volkov was a Russian novelist who published his own series of Oz novels called the *Magic Land* books, for readers in Soviet Russia, China and East Germany. His first book, published in 1939, was a translation and adaptation of Baum's *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*, but the further books that he wrote in the 1960s and 70s were entirely Volkov's invention.

### Books by the Baum family
### Books by other writers
## References 
*Hearn, Michael Patrick (ed). (2000, 1973) *The Annotated Wizard of Oz*. W. W. Norton & Co. 
*Greene, David L. and Martin, Dick. (1977) *The Oz Scrapbook*. Random House. 
*Trust, Fred (2008)  "Wizard of Oz books Collectors Price Guide."

## Other websites 
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*L. Frank Baum Papers at Syracuse University
* Oz books by L. Frank Baum at Internet Archive; scanned color illustrated first editions
* The Complete Oz Works (Non-Illustrated)
* Oz books by L. Frank Baum at Project Gutenberg
* The Royal Timeline of Oz: Oz books (canonical and other) listed in chronological order
* The wonderful coloring books of Oz https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=John+neill+monica+guido+oz&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AJohn+neill+monica+guido+oz

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