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THE WIZARD OF OZ
INTRODUCTION
FOLKLORE, LEGENDS, MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES have followed childhood through the
ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive
love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The
winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to
childish hearts than all other human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed
as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series
of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are
eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents
devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks
only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with
all disagreeable incidents.
Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was
written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized
fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the
heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. FRANK BAUM.
April, 1900....so April, 2000 will be 100 years!!!