The wonderful land of Oz Author:L. Frank Baum Nearly a century ago, L. Frank Baum decided to write a modern fairy tale that would satisfy the curiosity of children about magical adventures in fantastic places, in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm, while leaving out wome of the more horrific details in their works. The result was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). — Turning the pages of th... more »is book, any reader, whatever age, will sympathize with those eager letter writers who kept begging L. Frank Baum for ever more news of Oz.« less