Oz Resources

The following books and magazines are recommended resources for anyone interested in the Oz books, either for the purposes of tracking down names, places, and things, as a guide to the published and hard-to-find Oz books, or for essays on topics of canon Both fans and authors seeking to keep their tales consistent with what's come before will find the following invaluable.

Jack Snow's final published foray in Oz is this great reference volume, the first of its kind, offering dictionary-like entries for every character that appears in the Famous Forty.

This volume corrects many of the errata found in Jack Snow's Who's Who in Oz, as well as including all of the information from the books that came out since the time of that book's publication. There is much valuable information here for the Oz fan.

A guide to the Borderlands of Oz, done in the style of Jack Snow's Who's Who in Oz, this volume also contains much more useful information for fans of the Oz books.

Updated edition of what was formerly called, Who's Who, What's What and Where's Where in Oz: The Canon. This is an excellent resource for any Oz fan or author as it includes valuable information up to and including Yankee in Oz.

Features a checklist of works by Eric Shanower, as well as Stephen Teller's excellent "The Other Oz: Oz Apocrypha Beyond the Forty Books."

Features Chris Dulabone's informative "Why Do People Keep Writing Oz Stories?" and Stephen Teller's "A Checklist of Published Oz Apocrypha" which continues in the Baum Bugle vol. 47 (see below).

Features Stephen Teller's, "A Checklist of Oz Apocrypha: 1990 - 2001" which is a continuation of his earlier checklist featured in issue 34 of the Baum Bugle .

Essential reading for the Oz fan who ponders questions of canonicity, the early history of Oz, the magic of Oz, the books in Oz, aging and death in Oz. Pattrick explores Teller's ideas of canon and apocrypha, and comes up with a scenario that's pretty close to the one employed by The Royal Timeline of Oz.

Essential reading for the Oz fan who wants to understand what makes Baum so special and different than his contemporaries and those who came later, as well as a deep exploration of the themes inherent in his fantasies and stories.