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Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum , who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books.

Dorothy and the wizard of oz

In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph. Ruth Plumly Thompson took up the task in , and wrote nineteen Oz books. Neill , two by Jack Snow , one by Rachel R. In addition to the canonical Oz books, several of Baum's works that are not Oz stories are nevertheless nominally set in the same fictional universe as the Oz books, and include several character crossovers.

These books, together with Baum's original fourteen novels, form the "Famous Forty", and are considered the canonical books of the series. Ruth Plumly Thompson's style was markedly different from Baum's. Her tales harked back to more traditional fairy tales. She often included a small kingdom, with a prince or princess who saves his or her kingdom and regains the throne or saves Oz from invasion.

Illustrator John R.