![]() Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. ![]() Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. ![]() Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. In the introduction is a letter written to Baum by a little girl on what drew the book's inspiration: "I suppose if Ozma ever got hurt or losted, everybody would be sorry." The story begins with the vanishing of the ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, and relays Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. "The Lost Princess of Oz" is the eleventh book to the Land of Oz series. Dorothy and her friends soon began their journey toward becoming an integral part of the American consciousness. In 1900, Baum and Denslow, famous illustrator with whom he shared the copyright, published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", making it one of the first commercially successful uses of color illustrations in American publishing. ![]() Baum's Oz series compasses the first fully developed fantasy world created by an American author. ![]() This fanciful kingdom was catalogued in a series of children's books beginning with the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American writer of children's books, best known for creating the marvelous Land of Oz in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". ![]()
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