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Although L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published one hundred years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the fantastic world of Oz. The second in a new series of anthologies sponsored by the Children's Literature Association, this collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches. Beginning with a glance back over the entire history of research and commentary on the Oz books, this work is organized in three main sections. Essays in the "Origins of Oz" examine Frank Baum's personal history and unlock the...

Rahn discusses ten neglected children's authors from the 1880s to the present, and shows how in the process of becoming an academic field of study, children's literature has narrowed in scope to allow only bestsellers with high profits to survive. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.