![]() He did a great deal of magazine and newspaper illustration work which is not as well known today. His pen-and-ink drawings have become identified almost exclusively with the Oz series. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's, and three of his own. John Rea Neill (1877?1943) was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, including L. The end-pages of this copy has photos of Montgomery and Stone in costume as the Tin Woodman & Scarecrow among the illustrations of characters from this story. ![]() ![]() Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame. The stage version starred Anna Laughlin as Dorothy Gale, alongside David C. A musical stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz opened in Chicago in 1902 (the first to use the shortened title "The Wizard of Oz"), then ran on Broadway, and toured the USA afterward. Best remembered for the American classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, thirteen subsequent volumes in the original series, as well as a spin off-series of six early readers. Frank Baum (1856-1919) is one of the most celebrated children's authors of all time. Due to Oz's worldwide success, Baum decided to return to it four years in this sequel, The Land of Oz, the second in the series. ![]() ![]() Originally, Baum did not intend for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to have any sequels, but it achieved a greater popularity than any of the other fairylands he created. ![]()
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