The wizard of Oz
by Deidre S. Laiken, L. Frank Baum · first published 1977
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on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011” ↗…Helped me out during the process of buying a house by understanding various negotiation gambits. Would recommend. Scrum - Another book that changed the way I work. Would absolutely recommend it. The Wizard of Oz - Much better than the movie. The 4-Hour Workweek - .... It was "okay". I don't know. I'm still torn. The Swiss Family Robinson - Awesome book, full of fun things to talk about with your kids. The…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗There are also great children's authors in English - A.A. Milne, Oscar Wilde's stories, Mark Twain, Kipling, Baum (Wizard of Oz). All of these could be accessible at various stages within grades 2-5.
on “Overselling A.D.H.D.” ↗I found this interesting book on Project Gutenberg, by L. Frank Baum of "The Wizard of Oz" fame, about a girl and her brother doing an aircraft startup around 1911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Girl I didn't realize they used the term "angel investor" even back then! Read and…
on “The Flying Girl” ↗…times each. As a kid, I really enjoyed the rhyming, the zany drawings and some of the fantastic creatures like the wump (a 7+ hump camel) and the yink (that likes to wink and drink pink ink). I read The Wizard of Oz at least 5 times and the whole 12 books series three times. I read several Choose your own adventure books dozens of times (I particularly liked, Journey to the Year 3000), and the full set of Death Gate…
on “Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?” ↗Interesting read. Barnum was quite a character, and might even be seen as a prototype of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz: "'Barnum was right when he declared that the American people love to be deceived,' Baum once wrote of one of his heroes. Strikingly, even after the Wizard reveals his con, the Lion, the Tin Man, and…
on “American Humbug” ↗Have you read the Wizard of Oz books? Radium is presented there as a cross between a magical source of power (more or less correct, in hindsight) and a medical panacea (nope). This also occurs in old Conan the Barbarian stories. Read…
on “Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies” ↗You could also explain The Wizard of Oz as "young girl travels to a foreign land and kills the first person she meets. She then teams up with three strangers to kill again" The purpose of Thomas the Tank Engine is not to speculate on the ramifications…
on “The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)” ↗According to Wikipedia and it's citations, William J. Bryan was satirized as the Cowardly Lion by L. Frank Baum in "The Wizard of Oz".
on “William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech” ↗…very close to the original. Anyway my original claim holds - the children's literature of the USSR was very international and mostly free of ideology. There might have been a reason for retelling the Wizard of Oz - Baum had bad reputation as a racist AFAIK, and probably the Soviet government did not want to look bad leaving his name on the book's cover.
on “Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda” ↗…were based on materials from the public domain. Were they uncreative for having not come up with a completely new story? The book series "Wicked" is a very popular revisionist telling of the original Wizard of Oz books. The copyright for the books (but not the movie!) lapsed just months after L Frank Baum's literary estate had come out of copyright. (Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked, had thought it was decades…
on “The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (2006)” ↗Is it not okay for me to complain about the quality of Baum's "The Wizard of Oz", which I downloaded for free from https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55 ? But, more to the point, Quanta is a nonprofit foundation-funded publication. It doesn't have subscriptions or advertisement. If…
The only example I can think of is "munchkin" which was apparently coined by Frank Baum for The Wizard of Oz.
on “Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more” ↗> “The Master Key,” where a boy wise beyond his years rejects powers too advanced for humanity to adapt. For those stumbling by- that's a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote The Wizard Of Oz! Here's a synopsis: https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Master_Key
on “Destination: Jupiter” ↗