The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
 Author
 Characters
 Summary
 Theme
 Movie
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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Born in 1856 at Chittenango, New York
Heart condition is not good
A timid and shy boy
L. Frank Baum
• At age 5: moved to Rose Lawn Estate, a
country home near Chittenango (his
father had made a fortune out of oil )
• Never used his first name (he preferred
Frank)
L. Frank Baum
• Read fairy tales and British writers
voraciously, especially enjoyed Dickens
• He criticized the fairy tales that were
frightening and horrifying
• Frank made the decision: he would write
a different kind of fairy tale
L. Frank Baum
• His parents sent him away to a strict
military school
• Suffering a heart attack or a nervous
breakdown
• Finally withdraw from Peekskill
• Began to nurture Frank’s creative
interests
First Children’s Book
First children's book:
Mother Goose In
Prose (1897)
The Last Book
•Glinda of Oz : (1920)
Frank's fourteenth
book in the Oz series
• Died in 1919 at his
home in
Hollywood,California
Published in
September
1900
Illustrated by
W.W. Denslow
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Surrounded
by eight of
Frank’s
early books
Original
Artwork for
the Wizard by
Denslow
Original
Artwork for
the Wizard by
Denslow
Characters
1. Dorothy
2. Toto
3. Scarecrow
4. Tin Woodsman
5. Cowardly Lion
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Witch of the West
The Witch of the South
SUMMARY
• Dorothy lives on a Kansas farm
with her uncle Henry and Aunt
Em and her little dog Toto.
• a frightening cyclone appears,
Dorothy unable to reach the
storm cellar in time
• landing in the
mysterious field in
the country of the
Munchkins
• the house killing
the Wicked Witch
of the East
• The Witch of the North
greeting Dorothy and
gives her the silver shoes
• the good witch of the
North recommending
Dorothy follow the Yellow
Brick Road to the city of
Emeralds and asking the
wizard of Oz to help her
• Dorothy meets
the Scarecrow-a brain
the Tin Woodman- a heart
the Cowardly Lion- courage.
• the Wizard appearing each time as someone or
something different
• the wizard agreeing to help each of them, but
one of them must kill the Wicked Witch of the
West
• The Wicked Witch’s attacks failed. Dorothy
killing the bad witch, and getting the golden
cap
• back to the Emerald
City and
discovering the
truth of the Wizard
•he still agrees to give them what they want
• Oz have to take them home with him in
hot air balloon again. But Dorothy and
Toto miss the rising hot air balloon.
• The Good Witch of
the South may be
able to send Dorothy
and Toto home.
• the silver shoes
Dorothy wears can
take her anywhere
• Dorothy and Toto returning to Kansas
The Scarecrow - Leader of Emerald city
The Tin woodman - Leader of West
The Cowardly Lion - King to the forest.
Theme
Friendship
Adventure
** To see is to believe?
“How can I help being a humbug when all these people
make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?”
said Oz. (p.111)
Symbol
The yellow brick road
Dorothy’s silver shoes