TY - BOOK AU - Baum, Frank, L. TI - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz SN - 9471781666333 U1 - F BAU 2005 PY - 2017/// CY - Place of publication not identified] : . PB - L. Frank Baum via Type & Tell, KW - Gale, Dorothy KW - Juvenile fiction KW - (Fictitious character) KW - Oz (Imaginary place) KW - JUVENILE FICTION / General N1 - Juvenile Audience N2 - : The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. he story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale". Its groundbreaking success and the success of the Broadway musical adapted from the novel led Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books that serve as official sequels to the first story ER -