"The story that started it all and spawned a series of film adaptations that have become the stuff of silver screen legend: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum is in fact the first in a series of novels set in Oz, but it is by far the most famous. Published right at the turn of the century in the year 1900, the novel's fantastical setting---a world inhabited by zany creatures and terrifying villains---is a perfect sort of quaint escapism...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Transported to the land of Oz by a powerful cyclone, young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, team up with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion to seek out the mighty Wizard of Oz and help her return home. -- The Marvelous Land of Oz. When Tip steals the Powder of Life from the witch, Mombi, it's just the start of adventures that will include the animation of Jack Pumpkinhead and the Saw-Horse, a meeting...