the life and adventures of santa claus 1902

Some critics have suggested that Baum modeled the character of the Wizard on himself. The success of the nursery rhymes persuaded Baum to craft a novel out of one of the stories, which he titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The project was followed by three other picture books of rhymes, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow.

Baum often entertained his children with nursery rhymes and in 1897 published a compilation titled Mother Goose in Prose, which was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Married in 1882 to Maud Gage, whose mother was an influential suffragette, the two had four sons. Eventually, Baum had his first taste of success as a writer when he staged The Maid of Arran, a melodrama he had written and scored. When Baum was a young man, his father, who had made a fortune in oil, gave him several theaters in New York and Pennsylvania to manage. Claus presents the first one to Bessie Blithesome, a local noblewoman, after consulting with Necile and the Queen of the Fairies about whether he should give toys to wealthy children.īest known as the author of the Wizard of Oz series, Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, in New York. When he makes a clay figure reminiscent of Necile, he proclaims it a 'dolly' to evade naming Necile to the children ('doll' results when children shorten the name). Soon, the immortals begin assisting him in the production of other carvings: the Ryls coloring the toys with their infinite paint pots (the first toy was not colored). On one occasion, his neighbors' son Weekum visits him and Claus having made an image of Blinky to pass the time, presents him with the finished carving, calling it a 'toy'. Because he cannot reside in Burzee as an adult, he settles in the nearby Laughing Valley of Hohaho, where the immortals regularly assist him, and Necile gives him a little cat named Blinky.In the Laughing Valley, Claus becomes known for kindness toward children. Frank Baum Clark Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile.Upon reaching young adulthood, Claus is introduced by Ak to human society, wherein he sees war, brutality, poverty, child neglect, and child abuse. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum Clark Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lion.

The life and adventures of santa claus 1902