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The Woggle-Bug Book
''The Woggle-Bug Book'' is a 1905 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, creator of the Land of Oz, and illustrated by Ike Morgan. It has long been one of the rarest items in the Baum bibliography.〔Douglas G. Greene and Peter E. Hanff, ''Bibliographia Oziana: A Concise Bibliographical Checklist of the Oz Books of L. Frank Baum'', revised and enlarged edition, Kinderhook, IL, International Wizard of Oz Club, 1988.〕 Baum's text has been controversial for its use of ethnic humor stereotypes.
==Background==
The book grew out of another promotional project, ''Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz'' (1904-5), a popular comic strip that promoted Baum's second Oz book, ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' (1904). The comic strip, written by Baum and illustrated by Walt McDougall, brought Oz characters including the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and others〔Also Jack Pumpkinhead, the Sawhorse, The Gump, and the Woggle-Bug. Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; pp. 86, 105-6, 186-7, 214.〕 to the United States for various humorous adventures. ''The Woggle-Bug Book'' employs the same concept: H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E.〔''Who's Who in Oz'', pp. 239-40.〕 is shown maladjusted to life in an unnamed American city. The book's artist, Ike Morgan, was a Chicago cartoonist who had earlier provided illustrations for Baum's ''American Fairy Tales'' (1901).
Baum's Woggle-Bug was a popular character at the time; he "became something of a national fad and icon...."〔Jack Zipes, ''When Dreams Came True: Classic Fairy Tales and Their Tradition'', second edition, CRC Press, 2007; p. 202.〕 There were Woggle-Bug postcards and buttons, a Woggle-Bug song, and a Woggle-Bug board game from Parker Brothers.〔David L. Greene and Dick Martin, ''The Oz Scrapbook'', New York, Random House, 1977; p. 22.〕 Baum and Morgan's picture book was published in January 1905, to help publicize a new musical play, ''The Woggle-Bug'', that was being mounted that year. (The play flopped.) The book was copiously illustrated, with pictures and text alternating on recto and verso pages; it was printed in bright colors in a large format, eleven by fifteen inches.
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