American Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum
American Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum
List: $3.75 | Sale: $2.63
Club: $1.87

American Fairy Tales
Minus the Racist Ones

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: Mike Manz

Abridged: 2 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ophania

Published: 05/22/2020


Synopsis

A new narration of L. Frank Baum's 1901 classic American Fairy Tales, but with the two really, really racist ones omitted.Table of ContentsThe Box of RobbersThe Glass DogThe Queen of QuokThe Girl Who Owned a BearThe Enchanted TypesThe Magic BonbonsThe Capture of Father TimeThe Wonderful PumpThe Dummy That LivedThe King of the Polar Bears(Omitted: The Mandarin and the Butterfly, and The Laughing Hippopotamus)

About L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango, New York, to oil magnate Benjamin Ward Baum and Cynthia (Stanton) Baum, a women's rights activist. He was privately tutored at home and spent two years at Peekskill Military Academy.

In 1873, Baum became a reporter for the New York World. Two years later, he founded the New Era weekly in Pennsylvania. He also worked as a poultry farmer with B. W. Baum and Son and edited the Poultry Record and wrote columns for New York Farmer and Dairyman. In New York, Baum acted under the name George Brooks with May Roberts and the Sterling Comedy in plays that he had written. He owned an opera house in 1882-83 and toured with his own repertory company. In 1882 he married Maud Gage; they had four sons.

In 1883, Baum returned to Syracuse to work in the family oil business. His subsequent endeavor was not successful; his South Dakota general store, Baum's Bazaar, failed, and from 1888 to 1890, he ran the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. Baum then moved to Chicago and tried various sales positions. In 1897, he founded the National Association of Window Trimmers and edited Show Window from 1897 to 1902.

Baum made his debut as a novelist in 1897 with Mother Goose in Prose, which was based on stories he told to his own children. Its last chapter introduced the farm girl Dorothy. In 1899, Baum published Father Goose: His Book, which quickly became a bestseller. His next work was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the story of little Dorothy Gale from Kansas, who is transported by a twister to a magical realm. The book was published at Baum's own expense.

The first of the Oz books was made into a musical in 1901. Since its appearance, the story has been filmed many times. Other novels in the series are The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz , The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow of Oz, The Lost Princess of Oz, The Tin Woodman of Oz, The Magic of Oz, Glinda of Oz, and The Visitors from Oz, which was adapted from a comic strip by Baum.

During his career, Baum wrote more than sixty books, some of them for adults, including The Last Egyptian. He also gathered material for works aimed at teenagers during his motoring tours across the country and travels in Europe and Egypt.

Born with a congenitally weak heart, Baum was ill through much of his life. He died on May 6, 1919, in Hollywood, where he lived in a house he called Ozcot.


Reviews

Goodreads review by A.M.

Dating from 1901 some of these are pretty old fashioned and a little racist, but it is a work of its time. Each finishes with the moral of the story, just in case you missed it. Except for the glass dog tale. The dog barked and scared him away before he could ask the wizard what the moral was so it......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

I started reading this book because it was a free Kindle book. It was interesting. Some of the fairy tales are cute and some are strange--and it was written a very long time ago. Not many of these are actually stories I would read to my children at their current ages, however.......more

Goodreads review by Ignacio

A pesar de ser una rama de libros de terror, este no lo es, por eso lo han puesto en verde. La edición buena, a falta de perfeccionarla con hojas cosidas. Han corregido el error que creo que tuvieron en las dos anteriores, de poner un precio alto para tan pocas páginas. En este caso viene con las il......more