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About All of the Oz Books reading "The Land of Oz.” There are plenty of grown-up little girls who have read all of the wonderful stories of Ozand “The Royal Book of and Oz” is the fourteenth.

Mr. Baum used to like to say the Oz books "are for children from six to sixty." A child can hardly be too little to enjoy them for if the very little ones haven’t learned to read yet Mama or Daddy will get as much fun as the children in reading them aloud, and no boy or girl can be too little to enjoy Mr. Neill's funny and lovely pictures. Each year there is a new Oz book, and there are thousands of girls and boys who just hate to grow up, for fear their folks will think they are getting too old want the new one. It was nearly years ago twenty that Jack Pumpkinhead came to life in