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The Oz Books

I have made extensive contributions to this page, and would love to see it as a Featured list. It appears this was PR'ed before, but I can't find the original request. I have put Baum's original 14 books in a very nice table as well as added a couple of references, and edited the text a bit. Any other suggestions? --[[User:JonMoore|—JonMoore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 5 July 2005 14:43 (UTC)

• The layout looks good, particularly the way the table of books has been constructed. However the descriptive paragraphs do seem to steadily decrease in length toward the end of the table. Maybe a couple more sentences could be added to these later descriptions? Do the books actually 'deal with the "history" of the Land of Oz'? Or are they just tales based within the land of Oz? I did find some old archived references by looking at the "what links here", but there wasn't much feedback to be found. — RJH 7 July 2005 15:57 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the feedback...I was starting to worry no one would! As for the "history" vs. "tales", they are tales within the land of Oz, but when they were being written, the authors styled themselves as "Royal Historians of Oz", who were writing down the Land's history. Some even deal with some Oz history, Like The Lost King of Oz by Thompson asks what happened to Ozma's father when the Wizard came into power. Other than that, they are mostly adventures/tours of Oz.--[[User:JonMoore|—JonMoore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 7 July 2005 17:54 (UTC)