L Frank Baum: 503 books

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a perfect bedtime short story. The story opens with a quick overview of Santa's castle in the Laughing Valley. In the five Caves surrounding the Valley are people known as "the Daemons." These people are not all bad. Four of the five, the Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred,...

“What country did you say, Prince?” “Baluchistan, my lord.” The great financier lay back in his chair and a slight smile flickered over his stern features. Then he removed his eye-glasses and twirled them thoughtfully around his finger as he addressed the young man opposite.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The follow-up to Aunt Jane's Nieces, Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second in the series of ten novels that Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum penned for young adults at the dawn of the twentieth century....

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/The Marvelous Land of Ozbrings together in one treasury-sized volume the first two novels of L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz series for younger readers. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*,* young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to the magical...

“It’s a shame!” cried Becky Daring, indignantly shaking her scraggly red locks for emphasis. “So say we all of us,” observed her brother Don in matter-of-fact tones. “But that won’t help it, Beck.”

Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier written by 2 authors, L. Frank Baum and Emma Speed Sampson. This book was published in 1919. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original...

L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 and was an immediate smash hit. If you've at least seen the musical you know the story: a young girl named Dorothy is swept away from her Kansas farm by a tornado and is plopped down in a fantastical land of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea is a juvenile adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, and published in 1906 under the pseudonym "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald." The book was reprinted two years...

Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere suggestions, leaving the imagination to weave in the details of the story....

This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph Necile, who convinces the great Ak to allow her to raise Claus for her own. As he...

The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in Their Successful Search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book...

Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch is a 1913 novel by L. Frank Baum writing as "Edith Van Dyne". The novel depicts a story of racial tension on the California ranch owned by the progressive-minded Arthur Weldon and Louise Merrick Weldon, who have entrusted their baby, Jane, nicknamed "Toodlums,"...

Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this book, which Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wrote under the pen name Edith Van Dyne, is much in the same vein as Alcott's cozy coming-of-age tale. The first in a series, the story of this novel follows three nieces who are summoned to their wealthy...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Orissa Kane, self-reliant and full of sparkling good nature, under-study for her brother, prospective inventor and aviator. Orissa and her friend Sybil fly off in a new aeroplane for adventures which test...