Dorothy Of Oz, Roger S. Baum,First 1st Ed HC, SIGNED

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Dorothy Of Oz, Roger S. Baum,First 1st Ed HC, SIGNED Dorothy of Oz continuing the Oz stories of L. Frank Baum by Roger S. Baum illustrated by Elizabeth Miles SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Roger S. Baum Books of Wonder, hardcover with dust jacket, 1989 first edition . Roger Stanton Baum (born 1938) is a former banker and stockbroker, and currently (as of 2005) a children's author, residing in Branson, Missouri . Baum publishes under the name Roger S. Baum. Baum is a former resident of Los Angeles and the vicinity of Las Vegas. He also tours the country, reading from and signing his children's books. Baum is the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum , the original creator of the "Oz" series, and grandson of Frank Joslyn Baum , who published The Laughing Dragon of Oz in 1935. Many of Roger S. Baum's children's books are set in the same world. Baum had written short stories and another children's book, entitled Long Ears and Tailspin , before being approached by the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1987 to write original "Oz" stories. The success of his "Oz" books allowed him to leave his banking job in 1990, and become a full-time children's author. Sometimes Baum's earlier material is reworked in his later books; Long Ears and Tailspin's "Candy Land" reappears in his 2000 Toto book, for example. One of Baum's books was made into the read more