The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set ...

Inspiration was all around him – biographers and critics have identified everyone and everything from his mother-in-law to Castle Park in Michigan as reincarnated in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." ...

Frank Baum’s ideas about social justice and rights for women which pervade not just The Wizard of Oz but also its sequels, and explain why this story in its many forms has inspired many minority ...

In traditional fairy tales ... s Film Is A Tale Half Told Hobson notes, “Frank Baum had an interesting relationship to women’s power, which is why the hero of The Wizard of Oz is depicted ...

Everyone loves "The Wizard of Oz," except the official arbiters of ... Grimm and Andersen for the classic fairy tales; Lewis Carroll (the "Alice" books), J. M. Barrie ("Peter Pan") and Kenneth ...

Celebrate L. Frank Baum's birthday, the 150th anniversary of his timeless book, and new historical marker coming soon to the spot of his boyhood Mattydale home on Saturday.

‘The Wizard of Oz ... There’s an audience for ‘Oz’ wherever there’s a projection machine and a screen. L. Frank Baum’s story is an American fairy tale, a nursery saga of nearly ...

That’s its greatest strength. The Wizard of Oz and most other fairy tales have their internal logic. Wonderland is completely liberated from all rationality, which makes it the perfect literary ...

Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L ... musical and book In Maguire's original novel, the tale of Dorothy and co. following the Yellow Brick Road ...

Wicked fans might be interested to see an alternate prequel to the classic story of The Wizard of Oz. Like the beloved ... Lindsay-Abaire is no stranger to fairy tale material, having also written ...