"What Children Want"
Essay
By: L. Frank Baum
Date: November 27, 1902
Source: Baum, Frank. "What Children Want," Chicago Evening Post, November 27, 1902. Reprinted in Tystad Koupal, Nancy, ed. Baum's Road to Oz: The Dakota Years. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press. 166–170. About the Author: L.(yman) Frank Baum (1856–1919), creator of the beloved Wizard of Oz stories, spent much of his adult life moving—from New York to South Dakota to Chicago, and finally California. He worked as a journalist, shopkeeper, traveling salesman, playwright, and magazine editor, each with varying degrees of success. The phenomenal popularity of the first Oz book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) gave Baum financial stability for the first time in his life, and it enabled him to continuing writing for children until his death.
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The Wonderful Wizard of...
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1900's The Arts Primary Sources
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