The Oz Enthusiast

It’s always amusing to run across an unsolicited comment about a show - whether favorable or not! I picked up a postcard recently whose auth...

As a book collector, I've always found paper spines to be completely impractical; especially on children's books, which were never m...

On October 19th, 1909, the above announcement appeared in the town newspaper of Grand Junction, Colorado. The local Elks Lodge (#575) had de...

Some years ago Irwin and I visited with Kendra Daniels, a collector and dealer in children's illustration art, at her home. We viewed th...

 This past weekend Irwin and I visited the Kerlan Collection , at the University of Minnesota, to view the W. W. Denslow materials in their ...

In August of 1935, John R. Neill received a letter that had been forwarded from the publishers Reilly & Lee. Looking at the envelope, ...

 Here's a costume design by Anthony Holland (1912 - 2001) for The Wizard of Oz , presumably for the Wizard himself! Holland was a well k...

In December 1902, the comic section of The New York Herald published four adaptations of classic stories, rewritten and illustrated by W. W...

The 1903 production of The Wizard of Oz made stars of Fred Stone and David Montgomery, and their performances certainly deserve credit for ...

Reilly & Britton published The Christmas Stocking Series in 1905, and it proved to be a popular item. The series of six small books cont...