cowardly lion (fictitious character)

A Kansas girl named Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to the fantastical land of Oz, where she and three new friends must find a wizard to grant their wishes, including Dorothy's wish to go home.

In this third novel of the "New York Times"-bestselling series, civil war looms in Oz, and an ancient oracle named Yackle prepares for death. But before she can die, the Cowardly Lion arrives seeking knowledge about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West--the woman who had defended him when he was a cub.

Presents an illustrated, one hundredth-anniversary edition of the story of Dorothy, a young girl who is blown over the rainbow to the Land of Oz by a cyclone and must seek out the great Wizard in order to get home to Kansas.