Books of wonder

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The marvelous land of Oz

being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman
1985
Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkin, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls.

The water-babies

1997
The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.

The emerald city of Oz

1993
Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.

The secret garden

2000
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The happy prince and other stories

1991
Includes five of the author's best-loved fairy tales.

The Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus

1997
A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Tik-Tok of Oz

1996
Reproduction of the first edition of the eighth Oz novel which tells the adventures of Betsy Bobbin and Hank the Mule after they are shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean and come ashore in the Rose kingdom.

A child's garden of verses

1998
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

Rip Van Winkle

2000
Arthur Rackham's 1905 illustrations highlight the story of Rip Van Winkle, an eighteenth-century Catskill Mountains man with an aversion to profitable labor, who falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to a very different village.

Oz

the hundredth anniversary celebration
2000
Various writers and artists discuss the influence that the book "The Wizard of Oz" had on them.

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