Autumn 2011

Description

Cover from John R. Neill’s 1920 reissue of The Sea Fairies; back cover by Thea Kliros for 2010 edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Issue includes articles celebrating the centennial of Baum’s borderland of Oz novel, The Sea Fairies, and the theme of head and heart in Baum’s twelfth Oz book, The Tin Woodman of Oz, by Richard Tuerk/“Mermaids of Oz,” by Ruth Berman/”Early Reviews of The Sea Fairies,” by Scott Cummings/the story “Blonde Rival,” a short story by Ruth Plumly Thompson/Departments feature a profile of an Oz museum, vintage publicity materials from the 1939 MGM Oz film, reviews of several new Oz books and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new stage version of Oz, a report on a memorial for Toto, and remembrances of Oz friends departed.