Cooking in Oz boasts a unique variety of culinary choices from notable Oz personalities—including several descendants of Oz creator L. Frank Baum—and one of Judy Garland’s family favorites. With a cache of rare photographs and illustrations, this is both a cookbook and memory book that Oz fans will love. Foreword by Margaret Pelligrini of Munchkin fame. Title page includes special bookplate signed for the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation gift shop by the authors.

Authors: Elaine Willingham and Stephen Cox. Foreword by Margaret Pellegrini.

Format: Paperback; 237 pp

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing

ISBN-10: 1581820518

ISBN-13: 978-1581820515

John Fricke presents hundreds of rare and previously unpublished photographs, studio memorabilia, and personal mementos, along with scores of anecdotes from interviews with Judy Garland and her colleagues, friends, and family. Fricke, the leading expert on Garland, gives readers an entertaining look into Hollywood’s past.

Format: Deluxe hardcover; 324 pp

“Write the stories you tell your children,” Matilda Joslyn Gage advised her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum. Gage also shared the vision of peace and social justice that inspired the feminist utopia Baum later created in his Wizard of Oz series. In The Wonderful Mother of Oz, Sally Roesch Wagner examines the remarkable relationship between Baum and the Gage family. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.

Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.

Format: Paperback; 24 pp

Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

This deluxe hardcover is a favorite among Oz collectors and lovers of children’s literature. Edited by Michael Patrick Hearn, the world’s leading Oz scholar. With an introduction and notes by Hearn, this is a beautifully illustrated reproduction of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 classic.

Author: L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
Editor: Michael Patrick Hearn
Format: Hardcover; 396 pp
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

This vintage Christmas tale for children was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, whose other books include several written to continue the Oz series after the death of L. Frank Baum. Illustrations are by John R. Neill, also of Oz fame. The Curious Cruise, first published in 1926, follows Santa as he takes a sea voyage around the world in search of ideas for new presents. His crew includes a boy named Jim, a tempermental polar bear, and a penguin who’s good with cash. Inventive and charming.

The Historian’s Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel as an allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated version of The Wizard of Oz that highlights the possible political and monetary symbolism in the book by relating characters, settings, and incidents in it to the historical events and figures of the 1890s, the decade in which Baum wrote his story.

Editor: Ranjit S. Dighe

Format: Paperback; 149 pp

Publisher: Praeger Publishers

Psychotherapist Gita Dorothy Morena expands upon the metaphors of America’s most beloved fairytale and explores passageways to healing through the archetypes of Oz. Morena, the great-great-grandaughter of Oz author L. Frank Baum, offers new perspectives on an American classic.

Author: Gita Dorothy Morena, Ph.D.

Format: Paperback; 211 pp

Publisher: Frog, Ltd.

Published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz immediately captivated child and adult reader alike. L. Frank Baum would write a total of 14 books about the Land of Oz, a feminist utopia that reflects the influence of real-life feminist reformers like Baum’s mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage.

This Oxford World’s Classics edition includes many of W. W. Denslow’s original illustrations, and the introduction considers both the famous MGM film version and recent literary theory in a fascinating discussion of this children’s classic, the beloved first books of the Oz series. Read it and see how it differs from the movie!

Edited and with an introduction and notes by Susan Wolstenholme, professor of English at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, N.Y.

Author: L. Frank Baum

Format: Paperback; 278 pp

Publisher: Oxford University Press