{"id":54,"date":"2020-05-16T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:57:36","slug":"ch24","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch24\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 24 – Home Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all ends in Kansas again\u00a0with Dorothy returning home to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.<\/p>\n

To finish this Guide to Oz<\/em>, here’s some short and sweet information about the book and its creators.<\/p>\n

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L. Frank Baum by George Steckel (1911) [Public domain]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Meet the author, L.Frank Baum. The L stands for Lyman but he never liked it, so he always used his middle name.<\/p>\n

Frank wanted to write a fairy tale to appeal to modern children (in 1900). He included things they would recognise, like hot air balloons, and he didn’t want it to be too scary.<\/p>\n

Do you think he was successful?<\/p>\n

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W.W.Denslow at his desk in 1900 [Public domain]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The original illustrator was a man called\u00a0William Wallace Denslow. William worked with Frank to design all the characters, and illustrate the first edition of the book in 1902.<\/p>\n

He also included his own little touches. Each chapter’s illustrations are coloured according to which country of Oz it’s happening in e.g. Chapter 2 is in Munchkinland, so the illustrations are blue.<\/p>\n

Denslow also included his own little seahorse signature in most of his illustrations. Try and spot them in the book.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Frank wrote 14 Oz books, and other authors wrote more. There are now 40 official Oz books in total.<\/p>\n

Films<\/span><\/h4>\n

There have been several film versions of the Wizard of Oz, from the very first silent film version from 1910<\/p>\n