What Comes After The Wizard? - My Post L. Frank Baum Oz Reading List, for Sharing With Young Children | Maple Leaf Mommy | Canadian Reviews and Giveaways, plus excerpts from my life as a Mom.

What Comes After the Wizard? a post-Baum reading list.

If you just got here, and you're wondering what this list is...

This list is about about finding cheap or free electronic versions of the Oz book. I've been trying to track down the "best" electronic version of each book, by which I mean the cheapest and also one that includes the original illustrations. I also note whether each book is currently available in print.

It's also all about sharing the Oz books with my daughter, and the fact that some of the books that were written by Baum's successors are not necessarily kid friendly by modern standards. To be clear I am totally and utterly against censorship and book banning, but I also don't want to read books with racist or violent themes to my four year old. I hate wandering into something I need to gloss over, by surprise, as I'm reading the books aloud. I thought others might find this info useful, so I'm sharing it here. I've been pre-reading the post Baum Oz books, and marking them as kid friendly or not. When I mark a book as not kid friendly, I note why. (And if you've read any of these later works I would love your opinion on how kid-friendly they are!)

If you're interested, here's a link to my original post How to Return to Oz - How to share Baum's Oz books with your kids, and What Should You Read Next?

Finally,please note this is a work in progress which I will be updating as time allows, and as we progress through the books.

First, a couple of quick links to the original series by L. Frank Baum:

Before continuing on with the original Oz series, I suggest a slight detour. These two books feature the previous adventures of Cap'n Bill and Trot, two of the main characters in the next Oz book:

(Sky Island also has appearances from some Oz favourites like Button Bright and Polychrome)

Oz book by L. Frank Baum, but not part of the series:

The Woggle-Bug Book - available in print
The Woggle-Bug Book - digital version, free
Note: I haven't read this yet myself, but have heard it's very politically incorrect by today's standards so you may want to take a look at this one prior to reading aloud to younger kids.

The following is a list, in roughly chronological order by date they were written/published, of the books that are considered part of the Oz canon, and are consistent with the original L Frank Baum series.

Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson:

The Royal Book of Oz - available in print
The Royal Book of Oz - digital version, free
The Royal Book of Oz, full scans with colour plates
Note: Features slavery, racial stereotyping of oriental characters, plus many puns on out-dated words that make it hard for a young child to understand. I didn't enjoy reading this to my daughter, and would recommend skipping it.

Kabumpo in Oz
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Grampa in Oz
The Lost King of Oz
The Hungry Tiger of Oz
The Gnome King of Oz
The Giant Horse of Oz
Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz
The Yellow Knight of Oz
Pirates in Oz
The Purple Prince of Oz
Ojo in Oz
Speedy in Oz
The Wishing Horse of Oz
Captain Salt in Oz
Handy Mandy in Oz
The Silver Princess in Oz
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

Written by John R. Neill:
The Wonder City of Oz
The Scalawagons of Oz
Lost Bucky in Oz
The Runaway in Oz

Written by Jack Snow:
The Magical Mimics in Oz
The Shaggy Man of Oz

Written by Rachel R. Cosgrove:
The Hidden Valley of Oz

Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson:
Yankee in Oz
The Enchanted Island of Oz

Written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw:
Merry Go Round in Oz
The Forbidden Fountain of Oz
The Rundelstone of Oz

Written by Dick Martin:
The Ozmapolitan of Oz
Vistors from Oz

Written by Edward Einhorn:
Paradox in Oz
The Living House of Oz

Written by Dave Hardenbrook:
The Unknown Witches of Oz

Written by James Howe:
Mr. Tinker in Oz

Written by Sherwood Smith:
The Emerald Wand of Oz
Trouble Under Oz

Written by Margaret Baum:
The Silver Tower of Oz

Some non-canon books I'm including in the list:

Written by Frank Joslyn Baum (son of L. Frank Baum):
Laughing Dragon of Oz

Written by Roger S. Baum
(Chosen because I read these were particularly appropriate for early readers.)
Dorothy of Oz
The Rewolf of Oz
Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage
The Green Star of Oz
Toto in Candy Land
The Wizard of Oz and the Magic Merry-Go-Round
Toto of Oz and the Surprise Party
The Oz Odessey

Recent non-canonical books by Robert J. Evans (aka Bob Evans)
(Chosen because they've been made available for free on Project Gutenberg so I figured I might as well take a look.)