In case anybody is interested, but isn't aware. The Oz "universe" is quite expansive and extends far beyond the 1939 film. There's over a dozen books in the se

In case anybody is interested, but isn't aware. The Oz "universe" is quite expansive and extends far beyond the 1939 film. There's over a dozen books in the series by the original author and they're all in the public domain, free for anybody, and they hold up amazingly well as children's fantasy novels with memorable characters and an impressive amount of creativity. You can find them here (as well as dozens of other creative works by the same author): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42 There's also a couple dozen later works set in the same universe by other authors, notably 19 by Ruth Plumly Thomson. Most of these, I believe, are also in the public domain. You can find most of Thomson's works here https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ruth%20Plumly%20Thompson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ruth%20Plumly%20Thompso... A complete list of Oz books is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books Notable authors who've written in Oz include Soviet author Alexander Volkov, Philip Jose Farmer, Joan D. Vinge, and even Stephen King. In addition to the famous '39 film, there's several other films including a 1910 film, 1925 silent film, a 1933 Canadian animated, a 1975 film, a 1982 anime, an 1986 Japanese anime series, a 1950 half-hour tv adaptation, a 2013 film, various musical adaptations (including a Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow urban retelling in the mid-70s), games, comics and so on. There's also a 1985 Sequel film called "Return to Oz".