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    Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b
    Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b
    Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b
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    Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b

    By L. Frank Baum

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    Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology. During the same year that Oz was reconnected to readers via the wonder of “wireless telegraphy,” he also penned a half dozen “Little Wizard” short stories, which were later collected as presented here. This volume of Original Oz Stories is formatted not only for ease of reading, but to emulate the textual structure of that original publication.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781627554848
    Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b
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    L. Frank Baum

    L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time. MinaLima is an award-winning graphic design studio founded by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, renowned for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series. Specializing in graphic design and illustration, Miraphora and Eduardo have continued their involvement in the Harry Potter franchise through numerous design commissions, from creating all the graphic elements for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando Resort, to designing award-winning publications for the brand. Their best-selling books include Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Archive of Magic: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts screenplays. MinaLima studio is renowned internationally for telling stories through design and has created its own MinaLima Classics series, reimagining a growing collection of much-loved tales including Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and Pinocchio.

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      I finally found a copy of this...very cute short stories of the classic OZ characters
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      In L. Frank Baum's Little Wizard Stories of Oz, he's collected a series of short stories, each of which focus on a pair of the more popular characters of Oz. There's Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse, Dorothy and Toto, Ozma and the Wizard, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger. While the stories are not the most shining examples of literary masterpiece, they will give the avid Ozian one more ride through this magic fantasyland.Compared to his other writings, especially the Oz stories, I have to say that this one does not hold as much merit. It could be perhaps because Baum was better suited for the longer form, or some other reason in which the end result is that these stories are not very remarkable, and as such, are not very remarked upon.They are a definite must for any true fan of Oz, and a definite maybe for those who need some nice, short stories to read to that kid, or kid-at-heart, in their life.

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    Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum

    Little Wizard

    Stories of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum

    Royal Historian of Oz

    Wilder Publications

    Copyright © 2014 by Wilder Publications

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz copyright © 1899 by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow; The Marvelous Land of Oz copyright © 1904, Ozma of Oz copyright © 1907, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz copyright © 1908, The Road to Oz copyright © 1909, The Emerald City of Oz copyright © 1910, The Patchwork Girl of Oz copyright © 1913, Little Wizard Stories of Oz copyright © 1913, Tik-Tok of Oz copyright © 1914, The Scarecrow of Oz copyright © 1915, Rinkitink in Oz copyright © 1916, The Lost Princess of Oz copyright © 1917, The Tin Woodman of Oz copyright © 1918, and The Magic of Oz copyright © 1919 by L. Frank Baum; Glinda of Oz copyright © 1920 by The Reilly & Lee Co.

    This volume uses Simple Absinthe + CSS by M. David Blake, and Crimson TTF by Sebastian Kosch (OFL 1.1).

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    ISBN 13: 978-1-62755-484-8

    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    Contents

    01.  The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger

    02.  Little Dorothy and Toto

    03.  Tik-Tok and the Nome King

    04.  Ozma and the Little Wizard

    05.  Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse

    06.  The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman

    Chapter One

    The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger

    In the splendid palace of the Emerald City, which is in the center of the fairy Land of Oz, is a great Throne Room, where Princess Ozma, the Ruler, for an hour each day sits in a throne of glistening emeralds and listens to all the troubles of her people, which they are sure to tell her about. Around Ozma’s throne, on such occasions, are grouped all the important personages of Oz, such as the Scarecrow, Jack Pumpkinhead, Tiktok the Clockwork Man, the Tin Woodman, the Wizard of Oz, the Shaggy Man and other famous fairy people. Little Dorothy usually has a seat at Ozma’s feet, and crouched on either side the throne are two enormous beasts known as the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion.

    These two beasts are Ozma’s chief guardians, but as everyone loves the beautiful girl Princess there has never been any disturbance in the great Throne Room, or anything for the guardians to do but look fierce and solemn and keep quiet until the Royal Audience is over and the people go away to their homes.

    Of course no one would dare be naughty while the huge Lion and Tiger crouched beside the throne; but the fact is, the people of Oz are very seldom naughty. So Ozma’s big guards are more ornamental than useful, and no one realizes that better than the beasts themselves.

    One day, after everybody had left the Throne Room except the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the Lion yawned and said to his friend:

    I’m getting tired of this job. No one is afraid of us and no one pays any attention to us.

    That is true, replied the big Tiger, purring softly. "We might as well be in the thick

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