Frank Baum's classic story that has made pop culture status. Enjoy it again with your children and family. She meets many strange, and wonderful people and creatures along the way. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone.

That living mosaic can be seen from mid-May to early October.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Wonderful Wizard of Oz On the other side of the street, at the edge of Centennial Park, is a 10-feet wide, 12-feet tall Oz book filled with 6,000 flowers. You can see the Holland's tribute to Baum and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz with a sculpture garden that features 10,000 yellow bricks, along with life-size statues built based on the artistic renderings of the characters in the book. There is also a castle located in a private community in Holland that is said to have inspired his vision for the royal castle of Oz in his book. 'That brick is predominant in not only his story of the yellow brick road, but was part of their sidewalks and their streets in that particular area. 'There is a yellow brick that's manufactured - or was manufactured - here in Holland back in the 1800s,' said Hart. Piece by piece, the book was coming together. Just like the water on the shores of Lake Michigan, the ink of Baum's pen kept flowing onto the surface of his notebook. Her name was Dorothy, two doors down.'īaum would apparently sit out on the porch of his cottage writing down the things he observed. Frank Baums timeless childrens tale about a Kansas girls journey over the rainbow, The Wizard of Oz opened at Graumans Chinese Theater. 'It is said, from his great grandson, that a lot of the inspiration for the stories in the book came from while he was vacationing in Holland,' said Linda Hart, Executive Director, Holland Convention and Visitor's Bureau. As the story goes, that's where he was influenced with ideas for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The success of that book allowed Baum and his family to purchase a cottage in Holland. Finally, in the late 1800s, he broke onto the scene with his first major publication, Father Goose. So, he put his focus toward being an author. He realized there was one skill all of those jobs had in common - writing. He spent time as a newspaper editor, a playwrite and a journalist, among others. Without that, we might not have the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.īaum went through several changes in the early parts of his professional career - moving to different cities and across different industries multiple times. Thankfully, his big break book brought in enough money for him to vacation with his family in West Michigan. He intended to write a children's book with new fantasy creatures in a realm yet unexplored. Frank Baum took a different approach when he began writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Frank Baum always had success as a writer. In the late eighteen-hundreds, children's stories often featured familiar mythical creatures and were written with the express intent to deliver a moral lesson.

With the worldwide success of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one might think author L.

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