Little Wizard Stories of Oz: Original Oz Stories 1913b
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I finally found a copy of this...very cute short stories of the classic OZ characters
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In 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.
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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