The Oz Scrapbook

by David L. Greene

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394410548
• ISBN13: 9780394410548
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another good Oz reference

Whereas "The Annotated Wizard of Oz" is a good reference for the first Oz book specifically, this is a good reference for the whole Oz phenomenon, from Baum to later authors, from books to stage plays and films. The book opens with a description of L. Frank Baum himself; biographical details, his history of books, the writing of the 14 Oz books, his relations with illustators, and his involvement with stage plays and films based on Oz. This section, like the whole book, is illustrated with many black & white illustrations, b & w photographs, and a few color plates. The second chapter describes the ongoing Oz phenomenon taken over by Ruth Plumly Thompson and some later Oz authors, and includes pictures of the dustjackets of some of these books as well as many other illustrations. The third chapter deals specifically of course John R. Neill. There are also samples of illustrations from foreign language translations and adaptions of the Oz series. Chapter 4 documents Oz on stage and on screen, starting with Baum's earliest stage plays, his later attempts with the Oz on stage and in film, later cartoon adaptions, the 1939 MGM movie, up to The Wiz of 1975. And the last short chapter spends some space to Oz pages + 16 unnumbered pages of color plates. By David L. Greene 0-394-410548, LCCN 77-3675.