AUTHOR’S NOTE
My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"—meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz. And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: "Please have Dorothy go to the Land of Oz again"; or, "Why don't you make Ozma and Dorothy meet, and have a good time together?" Indeed, could I do all that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books to satisfy their demands. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.
Well, here is "more about Dorothy," and about our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and Ozma, and all the rest of them; and here, likewise, is a good deal about some new folks that are queer and unusual. One little friend, who read this story before it was printed, said to me: "Billina is real Ozzy, Mr. Baum, and so are Tiktok and the Hungry Tiger."
If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this new story "real Ozzy," I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it. But perhaps I shall get some more of those very welcome letters from my readers, telling me just how they like "Ozma of Oz." I hope so, anyway.
L. FRANK BAUM.
MACATAWA, 1907.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
[Chapters published early Saturday and Wednesday mornings. Links to each are below.]
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Full Title: Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein
CHAPTER I.—The Girl in the Chicken Coop.
CHAPTER III.—Letters in the Sand.
CHAPTER IV.—Tiktok the Machine Man.
CHAPTER V.—Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail.
CHAPTER VI.—The Heads of Langwidere.
CHAPTER VII.—Ozma of Oz to the Rescue.
CHAPTER VIII.—The Hungry Tiger.
CHAPTER IX.—The Royal Family of Ev.
CHAPTER X.—The Giant with the Hammer.
CHAPTER XII.—The Eleven Guesses.
CHAPTER XIII.—The Nome King Laughs.
CHAPTER XIV.—Dorothy Tries to be Brave.
CHAPTER XV.—Billina Frightens the Nome King.
CHAPTER XVI.—Purple, Green and Gold.
CHAPTER XVII.—The Scarecrow Wins the Fight.