L. Frank Baum, Kenneth Grahame, Edith Nesbit

Children's Favorites - Volume III - The Wizard of Oz - The Reluctant Dragon - Five Children and It (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Presented here are three of the most popular children's books of all time: L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," Kenneth Grahame's "The Reluctant Dragon" and Edith Nesbit's "Five Children and It."

First, one of the great classics of children's literature, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which tells the story of young Dorothy, who is caught up in a cyclone and transported to the magical kingdom of Oz. In order to return home, Dorothy is instructed to travel to the City of Emeralds and ask the Wizard who rules there for his help in getting back to Kansas. Along the way, Dorothy befriends a strange group of traveling companions - a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodsman and a cowardly Lion - who are all in need of the Wizard's assistance. Thus begins this magical and wonderful journey into a world of unmatched imagination and creativity; a work that inspired no less than thirteen sequels and innumerable film, stage and television adaptations.

Then, the magical tale of an unlikely friendship between a boy and a dragon, Kenneth Grahame's beautiful and hilarious "The Reluctant Dragon." The main character, known only as "The Boy," discovers a friendly dragon living outside his small village. When the townspeople recruit St. George himself to slay the monster, the Boy to attempts to intervene and try to save his friend. It is a sweet, uplifting fable of love and friendship for children of all ages.

And finally, Edith Nesbit's classic "Five Children and It," which revolves around five young children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother the Lamb - who discover a lumpy, grumpy sand-fairy (also known as a Psammead) who agrees to grant the children one wish every day, but warns them that the wishes will "turn to stone" at sunset. The rest of the story concerns the various wishes each of the children requests...and how terribly they go wrong.

Each of these stories is presented here in its original and unabridged format..Enjoy ALL THREE of these classic children's novels in ONE VOLUME! This is the third of a limited series.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781958943182
• Artikelnr.: 65848478

Autorenporträt

L. Frank Baum was born Lyman Frank Baum on May 15, 1856, the seventh of nine children of Benjamin and Cynthia Ann Baum. Baum's father was enormously successful and Lyman grew up on the family's huge estate - Rose Lawn- in Pennsylvania. Interested in writing from an early age, he managed to persuade his father to purchase a cheap printing press which he and his brother Harry used to produce a local journal, the Rose Lawn Home Journal. But his early love was the theatre and as a young man, Baum performed often as "Louis F. Baum" and "George Brooks." Eventually, his father bought him a theater in Richburg, NY where he wrote scripts and gathered a company together to perform them. While on tour with one of his plays, the Richburg theater burned to the ground, along with the only known copies of Baum's scripts. In 1882, Baum married Maud Gage and moved to the Dakota Territory, where he failed in business as a store owner. His literary "Kansas" was said to be based on his time in drought-ridden South Dakota. Baum continued writing, achieving moderate success with his book "Mother Goose in Prose" in 1897. But in 1900, he published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which became a phenomenon. He would eventually write thirteen additional Oz books and brought "The Wizard of Oz" to the stage as well, where it ran on Broadway and toured America. Baum never stopped writing and, upon his death following a stroke in 1919, Baum had completed 41 novels (apart from the Oz books), 83 short stories, 200 poems at at least 42 scripts. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.