" 'The Wizard of Oz' won itself a bad reputation because it became a musical comedy and a movie," noted Carol Ryrie Brink in the South Dakota Library Bulletin in 1948. With time, and with the rise ...

Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L. Frank Baum, "Wicked" tells the background story of the witches we meet in Oz during Dorothy's famous visit.

Wicked the musical and The Wizard of Oz are based on the same book. L. Frank Baum, who created the Land of Oz, wrote 14 Oz books. Baum's first novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was released in 1900.

Both have their origins in Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionist prequel, which suggested events that might have shaped the characters in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” ...

'The Wizard of Oz,' released in 1939, is one of the most beloved movies of all time. Revisit it with these behind-the-scenes photos from set, featuring Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Billie ...

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.