![]() ![]() When it was released in 1900, with bright and colourful illustrations by William Wallace Denslow, the book became a publishing triumph and Baum went on to write a further 13 stories set in the Land of Oz. Once having finished, he is said to have framed the pencil stub he had used to write the story, recognizing that it had been involved in creating something great. When he was 40 he decided to turn his hand to writing whimsical children’s fiction, and in the spring of 1898 the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz started to take shape. He started a number of different professions and businesses, none of which were particularly successful. Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in New York State, and was a self confessed dreamer. Frank Baum is one such author – when he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the expressions “munchkin’, “there’s no place like home” and “follow the yellow brick road” amongst many others, all entered the English language. Some authors write with such an imaginative flair that their words and phrases end up in general usage. ![]() “Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.” ![]()
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