The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Series
- Book 1 of Oz
- Published
- 1900
- Formats
- Ebook, Paperback
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children’s fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W. W. Denslow, and the first book of the Oz series. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy is swept away with her dog Toto by a cyclone to the magical Land of Oz, where she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West. First published in September 1900, it had sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956.