Description
This beloved children's classic tale is now available in an exclusive collector's edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers, book collectors, and teachers.
Delighting readers for more than 120 years, this time-honored classic is now available as a beautiful collector's edition.
Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this remarkable edition features:
- A beautiful, high-end hardcover featuring Laci Fowler's distinctive hand-painted art
- Embossed cover art and gold foiling
- Decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes throughout
- Matching ribbon marker and gold page edges
- Part of a 4-volume collection including?Frankenstein,?The Great Gatsby, and?The Return of Sherlock Holme
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- Makes a great gift for teachers, professors, educators, or librarians
- Is a great read aloud at bed time for young readers or families
- The perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, family celebrations, or other gift giving occasions
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?follows Kansas farmgirl Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto as a violent cyclone transports them to a faraway magical place called Oz, land of the Munchkins and witches. To make it home, Dorothy dons her famous slippers and must follow the Yellow Brick Road to seek help from the Great Wizard in the Emerald City. Soon she is joined by the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, each on his own unique quest for a better self.
Exploring the time-honored themes of good versus evil, the beauty of friendship, the value of self-sufficiency, and why home is where the heart is, this unique collector's edition presents L. Frank Baum's beloved tale of otherworldly adventures in a giftable new way.
About the Author
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time.Michael Sieben is a professional designer and illustrator, primarily within the sub-culture of skateboarding, whose work has been exhibited and reviewed worldwide as well as featured in numerous illustration anthologies. He is a staff writer and illustrator for Thrasher magazine, and a weekly columnist for VICE.com. He is also a founding member of Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin, Texas, as well as the cofounder of Roger Skateboards. The author of There's Nothing Wrong with You (Hopefully), he lives and works in Austin.
Book Information
ISBN 9781401603908
Author L. Frank Baum
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Harper Muse
Publisher HarperCollins Focus
Series Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions
Weight(grams) 471g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 15mm
