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Following Baum's death, publisher Reilly & Lee continued publishing annual Oz books, selecting new Royal Historians to record the latest Oz doings. These books, together with Baum's original fourteen novels, form the "Famous Forty", and are considered the canonical books of the series.
These are the official Oz canon, written by L. Frank Baum, who created Oz, and the subsequent " Royal Historians of Oz". These form the basis of the "Famous Forty", "Sovereign Sixty", and "Supreme Seventy-Five" numbering systems.
John R. Neill's three canonical Oz books—The Wonder City of Oz, The Scalawagons of Oz, and Lucky Bucky in Oz—were published between 1940 and 1942. Neill's heirs renewed the copyrights, so these books will not enter the public domain until 2036 through 2038, pursuant to the 95-year term.
This page is a supplement to List of Oz books featuring published books, often by small publishing houses. Toto in Oz by Chris Dulabone (1986) Yellow Fog Over Oz adapted from Alexander...
Jul 28, 2013 · All the OZ books are supposed to be in the same canon. But because of Baum and other OZ writers not making much of an effort for consistency, the various OZ books are not very consistent with other OZ books. Thus some persons might say that most OZ books are almost 100 percent canonical with themselves, but are of lesser degrees of canonicity ...
Canon in Oz was determined by the forty books published as the original series, known as the Famous Forty, but which in more recent years has been reexamined and found restrictive (it leaves out several works from Baum and the original series writers), and has been replaced on The Royal Timeline of Oz as the Sovereign Sixty.
The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh canonical Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 5, 1917, it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the ruler of Oz and covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. The introduction to the book states that its inspiration was a letter a young girl had written to Baum: "I ...
