History Literature / LandOfOz

* PublicDomainCharacter: The first 16 books are public domain and that's still enough material for {{fanfic}}s and different takes on Oz. Even now there are new comics based on ''Land of Oz'' and sometimes they {{cross over}} with other {{public domain character}}s, like Alice from ''AliceInWonderland''.

* ''Paradox in Oz'' by Edward Einhorn, (2000)

* OfferedTheCrown

* RalphWiggum: Button-Bright, in spite of his nickname, is actually kind of dim. He asks a lot of questions, but he's not good at taking the answers to those questions and making connections or thinking critically about it.

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/ozland10h.htm The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' (1904)

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/07woz11.txt The Patchwork Girl of Oz]]'' (1913)
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/08woz11.txt Tik-Tok of Oz]]'' (1914)
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/09woz10h.htm The Scarecrow of Oz]]'' (1915)
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/10woz10h.htm Rinkitink in Oz]]'' (1916)
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/11woz11h.htm The Lost Princess of Oz]]'' (1917)
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/12woz10h.htm The Tin Woodman of Oz]]'' (1918)

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/14woz10h.htm Glinda of Oz]]'' (1920)

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25519 Little Wizard Stories of Oz]]'' (a collection of six short stories L. Frank Baum wrote about the characters in Oz. Was published in separate booklets in 1913, the same year as ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', then as a collected edition in 1914, the same year as ''Tik-Tok of Oz''.)

* CuteKidsAndRobots: PluckyGirl Dorothy and her RobotBuddy Tik-Tok predate the word "robot."

* CuteKidsAndRobots: Dorothy and Tik-Tok in the third book, ''Ozma of Oz''.

A number of unauthorized sequels, alternate takes on Oz, and out of continuity tales.

* ''The SillyOZbuls of Oz'' by Roger Stanton Baum (1991)
* ''The SillyOZbul of Oz and Toto'' by Roger Stanton Baum (1992)
* ''The SillyOZbul of Oz and the Magic Merry-Go-Round'' by Roger Stanton Baum (1992)

* ''The Secret of the Deserted Castle'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1982)

* ''[[Literature/{{Wicked}} Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West]]'' (1995)

* ''The Forbidden Fountain of Oz'' by by Eloise Jarvis [=McGraw=] and Lauren Lynn [=McGraw=] (1980)

* ''The Hidden Valley of Oz'' (Rachel Cosgrove)
* ''Merry Go Round in Oz'' (Eloise Jarvis [=McGraw=] and Lauren Lynn [=McGraw=])

* ''The Wonder City of Oz''
* ''The Scalawagons of Oz''
* ''Lucky Bucky in Oz''

* ''The Magical Mimics in Oz''
* ''The Shaggy Man of Oz''

* ''Pirates in Oz''
* ''The Purple Prince of Oz''
* ''Ojo in Oz''
* ''Speedy in Oz''
* ''The Wishing Horse of Oz''
* ''Captain Salt in Oz''
* ''Handy Mandy in Oz''
* ''The Silver Princess in Oz''
* ''Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz''

* ''[[http://manybooks.net/titles/thompsonrother07royal_book_of_oz.html The Royal Book of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://dorothyozma.tripod.com/kabumpo.htm Kabumpo in Oz]]''
* ''The Cowardly Lion of Oz''
* ''Grampa in Oz''
* ''The Lost King of Oz''
* ''The Hungry Tiger of Oz''
* ''The Gnome King of Oz''
* ''The Giant Horse of Oz''
* ''Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz''
* ''The Yellow Knight of Oz''

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/07woz11.txt The Patchwork Girl of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/08woz11.txt Tik-Tok of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/09woz10h.htm The Scarecrow of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/10woz10h.htm Rinkitink in Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/11woz11h.htm The Lost Princess of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/12woz10h.htm The Tin Woodman of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/419/419-h/419-h.htm The Magic of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/14woz10h.htm Glinda of Oz]]''

* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55/55-h/55-h.htm The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/ozland10h.htm The Marvelous Land of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/486/486-h/486-h.htm Ozma of Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/420/420-h/420-h.htm Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/485/485-h/485-h.htm The Road to Oz]]''
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/517/517-h/517-h.htm The Emerald City of Oz]]''

** A series of graphic novels about Oz by Eric Shanower

** The Indie Game EmeraldCityConfidential is this.

* FanonDiscontinuity: After the first two books, it's pretty easy to just take your pick of whatever you don't want to consider canon. Baum didn't seem to worry too much about what was canon either.

* FlowerInHerHair: Princess Ozma
* ForbiddenZone: The Deadly Desert

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodsman; Dorothy and Ozma

* LevelAte: several examples in Oz, ''e.g.'', Bunbury

* OutlivedItsCreator: When Baum died, the publisher found another author to continue the books.

* PopculturalOsmosis: The Oz books arguably have a more of a pop cultural impact than the movie.

* WickedWitch: The Good Witches of the North and South are a subversion. A special subversion, as the notion of a good witch was alien at the time. In later books, it is revealed that there were two other Wicked Witches: Mombi, who kept Ozma imprisoned but was stopped from gaining power over Gillikin Country by the Good Witch of the North, and a fourth witch who was stopped by Glinda in the south.

* AllJustADream: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the original books. Baum himself stated that the land of Oz is located somewhere in the world, it's just surrounded by impassable deserts. Indeed, ''The Emerald City of Oz,'' which Baum originally intended as the conclusion to the series, has Dorothy moving to Oz permanently along with her aunt and uncle.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Nome King uses the Magic Belt, and later his own magical powers, to turn people into objects. Dorothy later uses it to turn a villain into a dove. [[TrueNeutral Red Reera]] uses her Yookoohoo abilities to turn herself and her pets into different creatures at a whim. (She also transforms some guests, but only after getting permission.) The magic word in ''The Magic of Oz'' also allows characters to inflict this on one another.

* FanFic: Outside of the famous forty, there have been fan fics written about the land of Oz and its characters over the years.

** The two characters who transform themselves into Li-Mon-Eags (lion-monkey-eagles) in ''The Magic of Oz'' [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope, since they are trying to win the loyalty of ''all'' the wild beasts in Oz and want to avoid looking partisan.

* RetCon: The story how Ozma's father was overthrown was changed to make the Wizard less of a villain.