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00 - Introduction - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum · Adventure Books Library

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Introduction. Folklore, legends, myths, and fairy tales have followed childhood throughout
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the ages. For every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories
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fantastic, marvelous, and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen
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have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the
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old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as
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historical in the children's library. For the time has come for a series of
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newer wonder tales in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated,
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together with all the horrible and blood curdling incidents devised by their authors to point
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a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality. Therefore, the
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modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable
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incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of the Wonderful Wizard of
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Oz was written solely to police checks. Enough to day it aspires to being
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a modernized fairy tale in which the wonder men enjoy are retained and the heartaches
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and nightmares are left out.