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Books in the Fantasy - American genre:

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)

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Ojo the Unlucky travels to the Emerald City along with the Patchwork Girl and the Glass Cat to free his Unc Nunkie from a magic spell. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman (1913)

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The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman have a boating accident and are aided by a flock of mischievous crows and the Wizard. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Tiktok and the Nome King (1913)

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The Nome King breaks Tiktok into a thousand pieces but Kaliko puts him back together again. Read online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Imagina (1914)

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A young boy imagines a mother to love him. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Julia Ellsworth Ford
Illustrator(s): Lauren Ford
Arthur Rackham

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Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1914)

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Six short stores about favorite denizens of the fairyland of Oz. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)

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Betsy Bobbin and Hank the Mule are shipwrecked on the shores of the Nonestic Ocean. They meet the Shaggy Man, discover Tik-Tok the mechanical man and help defeat Queen Ann Soforth and her army of conquest among many other adventures. Read online at H... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)

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Trot and Cap’n Bill are joined by Button Bright and find their way to the Land of Oz. Read online at Archive.org: their scan has some defects but includes most of the color plates. Or read online at Hathitrust, although their scan lacks the col... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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The Magic Cloak (1916)

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This Snuggle Tale contains an abridgment of Queen Zixi of Ix among other tales. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
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Once Upon a Time and Other Stories (1916)

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This entry in the Snuggle Tales series includes several stories and a single color plate.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
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Rinkitink in Oz (1916)

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When the pearl pirates capture the people of Pingaree, it is up to the King of neighboring Rinkitink, his talking goat, Bilbil, and the young prince Inga of Pingaree to rescue them. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Rip Van Winkle (1916)

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This edition of the tale of a hunter who slept for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains after a game of bowls has additional drawings but fewer plates. In this edition the plates are distributed throughout the text. Read for free online at Internet... View More

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Yellow Hen and Other Stories (1916)

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A collection of stories, including some set in Oz, with a single color illustration.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
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The Gingerbread Man (1917)

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This title is a reprinting of the first few chapters of John Dough and the Cherub, with a new ending. The first edition was part of Baum's Snuggle Tales and had a color frontis piece. The later edition in the Oz-Man Tales series had four color illust... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright
John R. Neill
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Jack Pumpkinhead (1917)

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This "Snuggle Tale" is a separate reprinting of the first few chapters of The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Julia Dyar Hardy
John R. Neill
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The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

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Ozma is missing, and with her, all the magic treasures of Oz. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Guld the Cavern King (1918)

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A story of the Kobalds in their caverns. Highly praised by Zona Gale. The first edition of 1917 does not have the three plates called for in the 1918 edition from the Bookshop for Boys and Girls, Women’s Educational and Industrial Union. Read o... View More

Author(s): Mary Lydia Bolles Branch
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Sandman’s Forest: A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons (1918)

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On his fifth birthday Giddy receives a pearl handled knife and a compass - and takes a flight on the Superstork to the Sandman’s forest. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s): Paul Bransom

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The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)

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The Tin Woodman joined by his old companion the Scarecrow and young Woot the Wanderer sets out to see what became of his old love Nimmie Amee. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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The Magic of Oz (1919)

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The Magic of Oz relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and the former Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Dot and Tot of Merryland (1920)

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Dot and her neighbor Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a new fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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