Vol. 15, no. 3 (Christmas 1971)
| Editorial Staff | David L. Greene, John Fricke, James E. Haff, and Peter E. Hanff (uncredited) |
Layout by John Fricke
Front cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from art by Julia Dyar Hardy (Baum’s Snuggle Tales)
Back cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from art by W. W. Denslow (Denslow’s Scarecrow and the Tin-Man)
Christmas 1971 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
Oz and the Fifth Criterion
Admitting that the Oz books may not excel in four traditional literary criteria by which children’s books are measured by critics and librarians, C. Warren Hollister suggests a special fifth criterion by which they prove their longevity and offer special satisfaction in common with other great works of children’s fantasy. Several responses to the article would be published in the Spring 1972 issue, and Hollister himself published a “25 Years Later” follow-up in Spring 1996.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on The Snuggle Tales and The Oz-Man Tales.
The Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
Pull-out sheet music for one song, with lyrics by L. Frank Baum and music by Paul Tietjens, that was featured for Fred Stone in 1902’s The Wizard of Oz.
A Visit with the Not So Wicked Witch
Michael Patrick Hearn describes meeting the delightful Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in MGM’s The Wizard of Oz.
Bibliographia Pseudonymiana
Douglas G. Greene collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s works published under a pseudonym. This installment focuses on “Floyd Akers’s” The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama and The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt. A correction was later printed in the Spring 1972 issue.
L. Frank Baum and His New Plays
An interview with L. Frank Baum about his dramatic endeavors—many of which were never completed—reprinted from The Theatre Magazine in August 1909.
Reviews
Queen Zixi of Ix with introduction by Martin Gardner (fiction; reviewer Peter E. Hanff)