Sealed The OZ Soundbook by L Frank Baum read by Ray outlet Bolger Cassette Tape Wizard of Oz vintage 4 Tape Set

The OZ Soundbook is a collection of audio stories written by L Frank Baum and read by Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow!).The OZ Soundbook is a boxed set containing 4 cassettes and a program booklet. Includes the abridged versions of: The Wizard Of Oz, Queen Zixi Of Ix, The Land Of Oz, and Little Oz Stories. From the program booklet: Who has never heard of Dorothy and her three companions, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion? Since its publication in 1900, The Wizard of Oz has become a part of the folklore of childhood. As with so many classic children's books, this American fairy tale began as a series of bedtime stories. One evening while its author L. Frank Baum was entertaining his four sons and their friends with tales of the magic City of Emeralds, one child asked where the story took place. Baum paused a minute, and looking around his living room, he saw his filing cabinet with its drawers labeled "A-G," "H-N," "O-Z." And thus the word “Oz" entered the language as the name of a fabled kingdom over the rainbow.

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The OZ Soundbook by L Frank Baum read by Ray Bolger with music by Don Heckman

Condition:
Box is Factory Sealed with significant shrink tearing, some edge soiling and wear.
Tapes are Factory Sealed.

Contents
Cassette 1: The Wizard Of Oz (Abridged)
Cassette 2: Queen Zixi Of Ix (Abridged)
Cassette outlet 3: The Land Of Oz (Abridged)
Cassette 4: Little Oz Stories
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At first Baum experienced some reluctance from his publisher towards taking his new story. Although he had written a best-selling collection of children's verse called Father Goose: His Book, Baum had some difficulty in convincing his publisher that the fickle public would accept a fairy tale that opened, not once upon a time in the Black Forest of Germany, but today on the great gray Kansas prairie. He and his illustrator, W. W. Denslow, wanted the book to be lavishly decorated with full-color plates and textual drawings printed in two colors that changed according to the landscape of the narrative. Their publisher uneasily agreed to produce the volume if the author and artist paid the printing costs of the color illustrations, but his reluctance was unnecessary. The Wizard of Oz became the best-selling juvenile of its day, and has been estimated that over six million copies have been sold, making it the most successful children's book of the twentieth century.

Cover Art: Leo and Diane Dillon
Library of Congress #83-740030
ISBN #SBC 0898451450

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