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Little Wizard Stories of Oz
''Little Wizard Stories of Oz'' is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, "Oz books in miniature," in 1913, and then in a collected edition in 1914 with illustrations by John R. Neill.〔Douglas G. Greene and Peter E. Hanff, ''Bibliographia Oziana: A Concise Bibliographical Checklist of the Oz Books of L. Frank Baum and His Successors'', revised and enlarged edition, Kinderhook, IL, International Wizard of Oz Club, 1988.〕〔David L. Greene and Dick Martin, ''The Oz Scrapbook'', New York, Random House, 1977; pp. 38-9.〕 Each booklet was 29 pages long, and printed in blue ink rather than black.
==Development==
The stories were part of a project, by Baum and his publisher Reilly & Britton, to revitalize and continue the series of Oz books that Baum had written up to that date. The story collection effectively constitutes a fifteenth Oz book by Baum.〔L. Frank Baum, ''The Complete Book of Oz: 15-in-1 Omnibus'', Radford, VA, Wilder Publications, 2007. The titles of all Baum's Oz books end with the phrases "of Oz" or "in Oz," which accounts for the odd title of the story collection — ''Little Wizard of Oz Stories'' would have made more sense.〕
Baum had attempted to end the Oz series with the sixth book, ''The Emerald City of Oz'' (1910); in the final chapter of that book he sealed off the Land of Oz from the outside world. He began a new series of books with ''The Sea Fairies'' (1911) and ''Sky Island'' (1912).〔Katharine M. Rogers, ''L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography'', New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 184, 190-1, 210 and ff.〕 Also, he reacted to his 1911 bankruptcy〔Rogers, pp. 175-8.〕 by increasing his literary output: he produced five books that year, his greatest output since 1907. Baum tried to launch two other juvenile novel series in 1911, with ''The Daring Twins'', released under his own name, and ''The Flying Girl'', under his "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym.〔Rogers, pp. 186-9.〕
None of the new series was as successful as the previous Baum and Van Dyne series – the Oz books and ''Aunt Jane's Nieces''.〔Both the ''Flying Girl'' and ''Daring Twins'' series ended with their second volumes, ''The Flying Girl and Her Chum'' and ''Phoebe Daring'' (both 1912).〕 Disappointing sales through 1911 and 1912 convinced Baum and Reilly & Britton that a return to Oz was needed. Baum wrote ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' for a 1913 release, and in the same year his publisher issued the six ''Little Wizard'' stories in individual booklets (price, $0.15 each). The goal was to reach the youngest beginning readers, and create in them an interest in the larger Oz canon, as part of a "promotion of L. Frank Baum and all of his books."〔Rogers, p. 194.〕
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