Roger S. Baum
- Author
- banker
- stockbroker
- schoolteacher
Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage
L. Frank Baum (great-grandfather)
Maud Gage Baum (great-grandmother)
Harry Neal Baum (granduncle)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
(great-great-grandmother)
Roger Stanton Baum (born 1938) is an American former banker and stockbroker, and currently (as of 2005) a children's author. Baum publishes under the name Roger S. Baum. He also tours the country, reading from and signing his children's books.
Biography
Baum is a former resident of Los Angeles, since which he has lived in Missouri (Springfield) and Nevada (Las Vegas). Baum is a great-grandson of L. Frank Baum,[1] the original creator of the "Oz" series, and grandson of Frank Joslyn Baum, who published The Laughing Dragon of Oz in 1935. Many of Roger S. Baum's children's books are set in the same world.
Baum had written short stories and another children's book, entitled Long Ears And Tailspin In Candy Land (1968), before being asked by the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1987 to write original "Oz" stories. The success of his "Oz" books allowed him to leave his banking job in 1990, and become a full-time children's author. Sometimes Baum's earlier material is reworked in his later books; Long Ears And Tailspin In Candy Land's "Candy Land" reappears in his 2000 Toto book, for example. His work does not follow the history of the canon Famous Forty Oz books, even disregarding information given by his great-grandfather's fourteen.
Baum's book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage was adapted into the film Lion of Oz (2000). A film adaptation of his book Dorothy of Oz was produced by Summertime Entertainment.[2] It was titled Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, and was released during 2014.
Selected bibliography
Oz series:
- Dorothy of Oz (1989, 2012), illus. by Elizabeth Miles
- The Rewolf of Oz (1990), illus. Charlotte Hart
- The SillyOzbuls of Oz (1991), illus. Lisa Mertins
- The SillyOzbul of Oz and Toto (1992), illus. Lisa Mertins
- The SillyOzbul of Oz and the Magic Merry-Go-Round (1992), illus. Lisa Mertins
- Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage (1995, 2003), illus. Sean Coons
- The Green Star of Oz: A Special Oz Story (2000), illus. Victoria Seitzinger
- Toto in Candy Land of Oz (2000), illus. Ronit Berkovitz
- The Wizard of Oz and the Magic Merry-Go-Round (2002), illus. Victoria Seitzinger
- Toto of Oz and the Surprise Party (2004), illus. Victoria Seitzinger
- The Oz Odyssey (2006), illus. Victoria Seitzinger
- Candy Cane: An Oz Christmas Tale (2010), illus. Chad Thomas
- Oz Odyssey II (2011), illus. Chad Thomas
- The Oz Enigma (2013), illus. Kathy Hoyt
Stand-alone:
- Long Ears and Tailspin in Candy Land: A Faraway Adventure (1968), illus. Mary Ann Farmer
References
External links
- Official site
- Dorothy of OZ movie
- Roger S. Baum at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- The Magical Monarch of Mo
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Dot and Tot of Merryland
- The Master Key
- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- The Enchanted Island of Yew
- The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Queen Zixi of Ix
- The Fate of a Crown
- The Woggle-Bug Book
- Annabel
- Aunt Jane's Nieces
- Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
- Daughters of Destiny
- Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea
- The Twinkle Tales
- John Dough and the Cherub
- Ozma of Oz
- Policeman Bluejay
- The Last Egyptian
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville
- Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work
- The Road to Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
- The Emerald City of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
- The Daring Twins
- The Flying Girl
- The Sea Fairies
- Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
- Phoebe Daring
- Sky Island
- Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West
- Tik-Tok of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
- The Scarecrow of Oz
- Mary Louise
- Rinkitink in Oz
- The Lost Princess of Oz
- The Tin Woodman of Oz
- The Magic of Oz
- Glinda of Oz
collections
collections
- By the Candelabra's Glare
- Father Goose: His Book
- The Maid of Arran
- The Wizard of Oz (1902)
- Prince Silverwings
- The Woggle-Bug
- The Tik-Tok Man of Oz
- The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
- The Magic Cloak of Oz
- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
- Violet's Dreams
- The Gray Nun of Belgium
and collaborators
- Maud Gage Baum (wife)
- Matilda Joslyn Gage (mother-in-law)
- Frank Joslyn Baum (son)
- Harry Neal Baum (son)
- Roger S. Baum (great-grandson)
- Jocelyn Burdick (niece)
- Paul Tietjens
- Edith Ogden Harrison
- Isidore Witmark
- Louis F. Gottschalk
- Nathaniel D. Mann
- Frederic Chapin
- Manuel Klein
- Arthur Pryor
- Byron Gay
- Emerson Hough
- William Wallace Denslow
- John R. Neill
- The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990 film)