The Fox is Black, a design blog, has held design re-cover contests in the past. I just saw their winner for a contest on redesigning The Wizard of Oz, which adds the word “Wonderful” to the title. It is captivating.
The Fox is Black, a design blog, has held design re-cover contests in the past. I just saw their winner for a contest on redesigning The Wizard of Oz, which adds the word “Wonderful” to the title. It is captivating.
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I don’t remember a cat in the Wizard of Oz. I remember a dog.
It represents the lion. Perhaps he looked for lion images first.
Ah, I get it now. Lion eyes aren’t very distinctive.
Maybe. Maybe it was a choice to keep the relative age young with a kitten and girl. Or maybe the noses just didn’t line up.
Baum’s title originally included the word “Wonderful.” My wife just finished reading the first book to our boys for their mid-day reading. The eldest (almost 6) loved it (and he can tell me all about what happened when I get in each night). The youngest (4) asked if she could go back to Peter Pan. She’s going to finish PP then see about the second Oz book.
At night I read to them from the Little House Series. We’ve just started book 6 of The Caroline Years.
That’s good stuff, Frank. I made the title note because I have hard bound copy of the book with illustrations by W.W. Denshow and without “wonderful” in the title. Now that I look at it again, I see a line saying the title was as you say.