John R. Neil

BOOKS OF WONDER
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK



Copyright 1904

by

L. Frank Baum

All rights reserved

Published, July, 1904





Author's Note

AFTER the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" I began to receive
letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and
asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.
At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they
were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come