William Wallace Denslow – illustratör

“There is no place like home.”We all know the movie and storyline well. But have you ever read the original novel? Influenced by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum created this classic story and fantasy using the dream of young Dorothy on her journey home to demonstrate the theme of good vs. evil. Throughout her adventure, she encounters several newfound friends: a scarecrow, a tin woodman, and a cowardly lion. They traverse the land of Oz together by following the famous yellow brick road to the stunning Emerald City. Though they encounter surprises along the way, what they find in the Emerald City shocks them.  The Wizard of Oz is one of the best-known and most widely translated stories in popular culture, and the immediate success of The Wizard of Oz inspired L. Frank Baum to write thirteen more Oz books.

Dies ist die komplett illustrierte Ausgabe mit 23 wunderschön gezeichneten Bildern von William Wallace Denslow."Der Zauberer von Oz" war die erste Oz-Geschichte des amerikanischen Autors L. Frank Baum und, wie er selbst sagt "ein modernes Märchen, das voller Verwunderung und Freude steckt, aber die Alpträume außen vor lässt."Es ist die Geschichte von Dorothy, einem kleinen Mädchen aus Kansas, das von einem Wirbelsturm ins Märchenland von Oz getragen wird. Natürlich möchte sie wieder nach Hause und beschliesst, den Zauberer von Oz nach dem Weg zu fragen. Unterwegs trifft sie die Vogelscheuche, den Blechmann und den Löwen, die ebenfalls Wünsche an den Zauberer richten wollen. Nach vielen Abenteuern gelangen sie zur Smaragdstadt und müssen feststellen, dass der große Zauberer gar nicht so groß ist .....Die Geschichte von Dorothy ist ein, wenn nicht der Klassiker unter den Kinderbüchern und gehört in jede gute Bibliothek.

All 14 Oz books in one single volume and more than 400 brillant illustrations.The books were written, as Baum tells us, as "a modernized fairy tales, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out", with no attempt to "point a fearsome moral" to its readers. Their success was both immediate and enduring, and they quickly won an enormous number of young enthusiasts who remained eager to read "more about Oz" for many years to come. The original story has been adapted and translated and dramatized, and it has also been used as the book for a musical comedy in stage and movie versions.Contents:The Wonderful Wizard of OzThe Marvelous Land of OzOzma of OzDorothy and the Wizard in OzThe Road to OzThe Emerald City of OzThe Patchwork Girl of OzTik-Tok of OzThe Scarecrow of OzRinkitink in OzThe Lost Princess of OzThe Tin Woodman of OzThe Magic of OzGlinda of Oz

This is the illustrated edition including all the beautiful drawings by William Wallace Denslow.The little boat in which Dot and Tot are picnicking floats away through a tunnel and into the magic Kingdom of Merryland, which is divided into seven valleys, each populated by a very unusual group of inhabitants. The first valley is occupied by a race of clowns; the second is a candy country where the people are made of marshmallow, chocolate and other sweets; the third is the home of unborn babies and the storks who deliver them to earth. In the fourth valley, all the people are dolls, and here lives the Queen of Merryland, a large and beautiful wax doll. Next comes a valley of cats. In the sixth valley lives a highly animated group of toys. The last, the Valley of Lost Things, is entirely "covered with thousands and thousands of pins", and very well supplied with buttons, thimbles and hair pins. Dot and Tot visit each of these places in turn and arrive home again after having received the titles of Prince and Princess of Merryland.

Die Geschichte von Humpty Dumpty, dem kleinen, menschenähnlichen Ei, das in die weite Welt hinauszieht, gehört zu den bekanntesten Kindererzählungen der Welt. Das sehr populäre Werk fehlt nur selten in einer Sammlung aus Kinderreimen oder anderen, für Kinder geeigneten Texten. Mit den Illustrationen von W. W. Denslow.