The Oz Enthusiast

I've been gradually piecing together a set of The Wonderful Game of Oz . This was first sold by Parker Brothers in 1921, and continued t...

Here are a few examples of work done by John R. Neill and published in the Philadelphia North American newspaper, in March of 1905. Neill d...

W. W. Denslow illustrated several children's novels, after breaking away from L. Frank Baum. I've already mentioned The Pearl and th...

For the Del Rey edition of The Purple Prince of Oz , Michael Herring provided an image of Kabumpo, Jinnicky and Randy sliding down a rainbo...

Here's something that falls under the heading of' "How about that!" About two weeks ago, some clients stopped in at the st...

I've always enjoyed The Purple Prince of Oz , Ruth Plumly Thompson's Oz book for 1933. This story doesn't bring anyone into Oz f...

L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales was another series of short stories, originally published in The Delineator magazine, in 1905. The...

American Fairy Tales , from 1901, is a collection of short stories written by L. Frank Baum, with some distinctly American attributes. The s...

As I get further along in the Oz series, I'm finding I have less to call out about some of the actual books. The format of the titles st...

John R. Neill did a lot of work for adventure story magazines - particularly Argosy Magazine , and others of the same sort. Here I have two ...

Here are a couple school-related Oz pieces from the 1920s. This was a popular time for the Oz series, and it's fun to see the influence ...

I grew up with the 1944 edition of The Wizard of Oz , illustrated by Evelyn Copelman. I think this was the first unabridged edition to use n...

The Enchanted Island of Yew , from 1903, is one of L. Frank Baum's less "Americanized" stories. As with Queen Zixi of Ix , I ...

I'm sorry to say I've only ever made it to one Oz convention, and that was an Ozmopolitan convention about ten years ago in Wisconsi...

Here we have Jack Pumpkinhead crossing a chasm by means of a magic beard. This painting by Michael Herring for the Del Rey edition of Jack P...

I've realized that when posting the various W. W. Denslow covers designed for Rand McNally, I've only been showing the cover itself....

Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz , from 1929, brings Ruth Plumly Thompson's Peter back to Oz from Philadelphia. This book also introduces another ...

This pair of W. W. Denslow covers for Rand McNally titles show two different approaches to cover design. For Marsa , the cover text is minim...

After finishing the series of Aunt Jane's Nieces books, L. Frank Baum began the Mary Louise series, using his Edith Van Dyne pseudony...

For The Giant Horse of Oz , John R. Neill created page-and -a-half chapter title drawings. The gap in the middle of the drawing was to allow...