There's always a bit of tension when it comes to filmmakers adapting books that people adore — especially for beloved ...

Everyone loves "The Wizard of Oz," except the official arbiters of kid lit: critics and children's librarians. They hate the "Oz" books. Or at least they did. For years, many of the nation's most ...

The movie is based on the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, who went on to write multiple other ...

The original source material for “Wicked” is the beloved children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” published in 1900. L. Frank Baum published 14 books over the next 20 years in the ...

Two of the most enduring children's books of the past 160 years are 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Wizard of Oz'. 'Alice in Wonderland' is the far better book. However, Alice in Wonderland is ...

You'll be off to see the Wizard, Dorothy, Toto and the rest of the Oz gang in literary form when the Friends of the West ...

But the success of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900, and the even greater ... had been such a hit (Baum dedicated the book to them). Children, in their letters, quickly let him know his ...

But the story of Oz dates back much further than that. For nearly 125 years, the fantasy world of writer L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), has continued to ...

Frank Baum’s original book. “This distortion ... But if anyone opened the pages of Baum’s 1900 children's novel, The ...

There's always a bit of tension when it comes to filmmakers adapting books that people adore — especially for beloved children's books that leave an indelible mark on readers at an early age.