Dell Junior Treasury: Wizard of Oz

Dell Junior Treasury: Wizard of Oz book cover — The Oz of No 5 15€ DELL TREASURY JUNIOR WIZARD BLUEWATER COMICS

Dell Junior Treasury: Wizard of Oz — page 1 — The Wizard of Oz was written by L Frank Baum to fill the need for a modern wonder tale The old fairy tales dealing with Kings and Princes and Princesses Genies and Dwarfs and Fairies are still able to thrill us but they are so far removed from today's world that they are hard for our young folks to picture Besides many of the old fairy tales are grue some or tragic or they glorify cruelty and wrongdoing But why write any wonder tale at all when important FACTS are still to be taught The answer is that childhood must be filled with wonder in order to be wholesome child hood A fact centered know it all child would be a monstrosity A child imprisoned within the drab walls of practical knowledge would be a most unhappy little person And those grown ups who have lost childhood's desire for the marvellous are spiritually ill The Wizard of Oz has all the delightful serious charm of make believe It carries the reader along with Dorothy into a land where almost anything CAN happen and what does finally happen turns out for the best even though it takes one's breath away It is a book which well deserves the high place it has made for itself among today's finest wonder literature DELL JUNIOR TREASURY No 5 July 1956 THE WIZARD OF OZ Published quarterly by Dell Publishing Company Inc 261 Fifth Avenue New York 16 New York George T Delacorte Jr President Helen Meyer Vice President Albert P Delacorte Vice President Application for second class entry pending at the Post Office at New York New York Single copies 15c Subscrip tions in U S A and Canada 60c per year foreign subscriptions 1 00 per year Dell Subscription Service 10 West 33rd Street New York 1 N Y 1956 by The Bobbs Merrill Company Inc All rights reserved Authorized edition based upon the story The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum copyright 1900 by L Frank Baum and W W Denslow copyright 1928 by Maud G Baum Printed in U S A Designed and produced by Western Printing Lithographing Company

Dell Junior Treasury: Wizard of Oz — page 2 — The Wizard of Oz ONE DAY A STRANGE LOOKING CLOUD MOVED TOWARD THE LITTLE KANSAS FARM WHERE DOROTHY LIVED WITH HER AUNT AND UNCLE WHAT IS IT AUNT EM 0 O OH IT'S A CYCLONE HEADING RIGHT FOR OUR HOUSE QUICK GET DOWN IN THE CYCLONE CELLAR BOTH OF YOU I'LL TEND TO THE ANIMALS DOROTHY WAS SITTING ON THE DOORSTEP WITH HER LITTLE DOG TOTO SHE WONDERED AT THE CLOUD AND THE MOANING SOUND IT MADE JUST THEN UNCLE HENRY RAN PAST THE HOUSE WITH A FRIGHTENED SHOUT TO AUNT EM DOROTHY WONDERED WHAT A CYCLONE WOULD DO ALL RIGHT AUNT EM AS SOON ASI CATCH TOTO DOROTHY HURRY TOTO YOU NAUGHTY DOG COME HERE DOROTHY FOLLOW ME AS FAST AS YOU CAN DUR T 5 565 AUNT EM OPENED THE TRAP DOOR TO THE CYCLONE BUT LITTLE TOTO HAD BECOME FRIGHTENED TOO AND CELLAR AND STARTED DOWN HER VOICE SHAKING JUMPED OUT OF DOROTHY'S ARMS TO CATCH HIM WITH FRIGHT AS SHE CALLED SHE CRAWLED UNDER THE BED DELL COMICS ARE GOOD COMICS

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