#BOTD: Ruth Plumly Thompson (July 27, 1891 – April 6, 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. Following Baum's death in 1919, she wrote one Oz book a year until 1939. In all, she wrote a total of 21 Oz books -- more than Baum himself.

#Kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Oz #LFrankBaum

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Plumly_Thompson

The #seond #compilation of the Oz #novels is another very #cool thing I found at #kibf It contains #dorothyandthewizardofoz #theroadtooz #theemeraldcityofoz by #lfrankbaum
#midureads #newpurchase #omnibus #reading #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #oz

Just finished #LFrankBaum ‘s “The Life and Adventures of #SantaClaus” and it should be required childhood reading over the holidays. Love how it creates a single #pagan narrative for so many traditions during the season. I also watched the 1985 #RankinBass special based on it. Cute, but the book’s better.

An excerpt from the script of actor-manager Henry Irving's adaptation of Goethe's Faust (with Irving in the role of Mephistopheles) which ran for many years at the Lyceum Theatre in Victorian London (where Bram Stoker was house manager).

It seems very likely this excerpt might have given some ideas to another theater impresario, one who also happened to be a children's book author, namely a certain L. Frank Baum...
#henryirving #faust #mephistopheles #oz #lfrankbaum #wizardofoz