According to Wikipedia, there are 40 or so books attributed to the Wizard of Oz Club - a group of writers who added to the original 14 of L Frank Baum.
We have read the first 7 in our household, and I am currently on the hunt for the Volume 2 of the "Oz Chronicles" - a 3-volume set with the 14 original Oz stories (7 each in the first 2 volumes) and other stories by the same author. For the time being, we are really only interested in the original stories - off-shoots don't really do it for me and children can make their own judgments when they are older. We have a few of the first 7 in paperback as well, with illustrations. Our hardcover collection volumes have no illustrations, save the map within the covers, and my 6 year old LOVES them! Why? Because it is a beautiful hard bound, leather-look, gold-trim volume - with gold trim on the pages. How much more special is that???
But I digress. There are many lovely maps of the Land of Oz and I include the one below because it is the color version of that map which is displayed within our beautiful dark green volume 1.
See all the color? Each area of Oz has its own color and the inhabitants within each area are alike in some ways yet as diverse as paper is from china - you can find their respective towns on the map above ;)
We like to keep things faith-based - but frankly, some things are just too much fun! And knowing that others have taken off with the series will only encourage us to use our God-give imaginations to work things out for ourselves - don't we all wish there was a special place we could go? Just to get away from the grayness of life for a while?
There IS a place - that place is heaven. In the meantime, we have Oz ;)
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