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A few weeks back when I talked about the things I’ve been reading this year, I wrote about the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. I got through listening to most of them and then just had to give up. The just didn’t have the same appeal that they had when I was eleven. I …
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. American novelist, L. Frank Baum, was born on this day in 1856 (died 1919). Like many American children, I grew up anticipating that one night a …