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The original Oz books by L. Frank Baum: Cover Order Title Illustrator Year Publisher 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: W. W. Denslow: 1900: George M. Hill Company: A little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get swept away into the Land of Oz by a Kansas cyclone.
At the time of publication, The Wizard of Oz and The Land of Oz were in the public domain, but the other Oz books were still copyrighted. However, Volkov's books are mostly original sequels to The Wizard of the Emerald City, so whether they are infringing or not is difficult to say. Barely any of the elements from later Oz books are featured in ...
The distinctive look of Denslow's illustrations led to imitators at the time, most notably Eva Katherine Gibson's Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch, which mimicked both the typography and the illustration design of Oz. [15] A new edition of the book appeared in 1944, with illustrations by Evelyn Copelman.
John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 – September 19, 1943) was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, including L. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's, and three of his own. [1]
The novel was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The book was followed by Tik-Tok of Oz (1914). In the previous Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, magic was used to isolate Oz from all contact with the outside world. Baum did this ...
William Wallace Denslow (/ ˈ d ɛ n s l oʊ /; May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [1]
The Pasadena Post referred to Jack's adventures as "strange and wonderful", and mentioned the Iffin as "one of the most curious and remarkable creatures ever discovered in Oz." [5] The Detroit Free Press commended the illustrations, saying, "John R. Neill illustrates the book with pictures as fantastic as the events themselves."
The Wonder City of Oz (1940) is the thirty-fourth book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the first written and illustrated solely by John R. Neill [1] Neill introduced a modern-day reimagining change in tone that continued through his subsequent books, according to David L. Greene and Dick Martin of The Oz Scrapbook; "(His Oz entries) ...are highly imaginative ...