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The Annotated Wizard of Oz: Centennial Edition. By L. Frank Baum. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Patrick Hearn. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, cii + 396 pp. $39.95.
Celebrations around the country last year honored the hundredth anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. His story of Dorothy, the young girl from "the great Kansas prairie," and her amazing adventures in the magical land of Oz is no more amazing than the hook's transformation during its first century from simple children's tale into one of the most recognized and beloved American icons worldwide. A major event in that process was the publication in 1973 of Michael Pattick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz, the first...