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While Baum himself stated that he wrote ''Wizard of Oz'' "solely to please children of today", the Oz books have addressed or left significantly unaddressed several philosophical questions. The political themes arguably present in the original ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' in 1900 and the Broadway play based on it were not continued in the rest of the series. The famous 1939 movie version is based on the 1900 original.
While Baum himself stated that he wrote ''Wizard of Oz'' "solely to please children of today", the Oz books have addressed or left significantly unaddressed several philosophical questions. The political themes arguably present in the original ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' in 1900 and the Broadway play based on it were not continued in the rest of the series. The famous 1939 movie version is based on the 1900 original.
==Impact on readers==
The 40 Oz books had a significant impact on their young middle class readers who read them in English, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Romanian, Latin, Hebrew, or Arabic editions. Novelist Gore Vidal recalls:
{{quotebox|Like most Americans my age (with access to books) I spent a good deal of my youth in Baum's Land of Oz. I have a precise, tactile memory of the first Oz book that came into my hands. It was the original 1910 edition of ''The Emerald City of Oz.'' I still remember the look and the feel of those dark blue covers, the evocative smell of dust and old ink. I also remember that I could not stop reading and rereading the book. But 'reading' is not the right word. In some mysterious way, I was translating myself to Oz, a place which I was to inhabit for many years .... With The Emerald City, I became addicted to reading."<ref>Quoted in , Nicholas Von Hoffman, "Flimflam Land. ''Civilization,'' Feb/Mar2000, Vol. 7, Issue 1 </ref>}}
==List of official Oz books==
==List of official Oz books==