The Emerald City of Oz | Book VI
AUTHOR'S NOTE / CHAPTER TRACKER / TABLE OF CONTENTS
PERHAPS I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host of youngsters whose ideas I am requested to weave into the thread of my stories.
These ideas are often clever. They are also logical and interesting. So I have used them whenever I could find an opportunity, and it is but just that I acknowledge my indebtedness to my little friends.
My, what imaginations these children have developed! Sometimes I am fairly astounded by their daring and genius. There will be no lack of fairy-tale authors in the future, I am sure. My readers have told me what to do with Dorothy, and Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, and I have obeyed their mandates. They have also given me a variety of subjects to write about in the future: enough, in fact, to keep me busy for some time. I am very proud of this alliance. Children love these stories because children have helped to create them. My readers know what they want and realize that I try to please them. The result is very satisfactory to the publishers, to me, and (I am quite sure) to the children.
I hope, my dears, it will be a long time before we are obliged to dissolve partnership.
Coronado, 1910
L. Frank Baum.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I.—How the Nome King Became Angry
CHAPTER II.—How Uncle Henry Got Into Trouble
CHAPTER III.—How Ozma Granted Dorothy's Request
CHAPTER IV.—How the Nome King Planned Revenge
CHAPTER V.—How Dorothy Became a Princess
CHAPTER VI.—How Guph Visited the Whimsies
CHAPTER VII.—How Aunt Em Conquered the Lion
CHAPTER VIII.—How the Grand Gallipoot Joined the Nomes
CHAPTER IX.—How the Wogglebug Taught Athletics
CHAPTER X.—How the Cuttenclips Lived
CHAPTER XI.—How the General Met the First and Foremost
CHAPTER XII.—How they Matched the Fuddles
CHAPTER XIII.—How the General Talked to the King
CHAPTER XIV.—How the Wizard Practiced Sorcery
CHAPTER XV.—How Dorothy Happened to Get Lost
CHAPTER XVI.—How Dorothy Visited Utensia
CHAPTER XVII.—How They Came to Bunbury
CHAPTER XVIII.—How Ozma Looked into the Magic Picture
CHAPTER XIX.—How Bunnybury Welcomed the Strangers
CHAPTER XX.—How Dorothy Lunched With a King
CHAPTER XXI.—How the King Changed His Mind
CHAPTER XXII.—How the Wizard Found Dorothy
CHAPTER XXIII.—How they Encountered the Flutterbudgets
CHAPTER XXIV.—How the Tin Woodman Told the Sad News247
CHAPTER XXV.—How the Scarecrow Displayed His Wisdom
CHAPTER XXVI.—How Ozma Refused to Fight for Her Kingdom
CHAPTER XXVII.—How the Fierce Warriors Invaded Oz
CHAPTER XXVIII.—How They Drank at the Forbidden Fountain
CHAPTER XXIX.—How Glinda Worked a Magic Spell
CHAPTER XXX.—How the Story of Oz Came to an End