The Visitors from Oz -- L. Frank Baum

<p>This Hungry Tiger Press edition includes all 27 episodes of Baum's 1904 <em>"Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz"</em> short stories, plus the <em>complete, unedited text</em> of Baum's 1905 <em>The Wogglebug Book</em>. All illustrated by Eric Shanower.</p><p>The Oz characters visit the United States of America! Laugh at the antics of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Sawhorse, the Gump, and the Woggle-bug as they navigate the strange world of the USA in 1904. Oz-creator L. Frank Baum brings his lovable characters to a world they've never experienced before - a world of automobiles, state fairs, pawn shops, fire engines, and submarines. This beautiful hardcover contains an <em>additional twenty pages</em> of material, including Baum's original 1904 "publicity" articles, an informative afterword by David Maxine, and much more!</p><p><br></p><p>The 1961 <em>Visitors from Oz</em> picture book by Dick Martin contained heavily rewritten versions of <em>only half</em> of Baum's 1904 originals. The stories were next collected in the 1986 volume <em>The Third Book of Oz</em>, but that volume contained a <em>heavily edited</em> version of <em>The Woggle Bug Book</em> and altered versions of some of the <em>Visitors</em> stories. This new edition is the absolute FIRST to include ALL of Baum's original unexpurgated text - and the first ever to be presented in traditional Oz book format! This is the first edition, too, that includes ALL of Eric Shanower's