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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: Tik-Tok of Oz Author: Frank Baum Book Description: To My Readers
The very marked success of my last year's fairy book, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz," convinces me that my readers like the Oz stories "best of all," as one little girl wrote me. So here, my dears, is a new Oz story in which is introduced Ann Soforth, the Queen of Oogahoo, whom Tik-Tok assisted in conquering our oldMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: The Marvelous Land of Oz Author: Frank Baum Book Description: Author's Note
AFTER the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" I began to receive
letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and
asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.
At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they
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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: The Road to Oz Author: Frank Baum Book Description: To My Readers
Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book" about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered asMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE Author: Mark Twain Book Description: CHAPTER I.
AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK
[Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are,
they are not inventions, but facts -- even to the
public confession of the accused. I take them from an
old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors,
and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some
details, butMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: TOM SAWYER ABROAD Author: Mark Twain Book Description: CHAPTER I.
TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all
them adventures? I mean the adventures we had
down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free
and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only
just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
had. You see, when we threeMore... | |
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