Vol. 44, no. 3 (Winter 2000)
| Editor-in-Chief | William Stillman |
| Production Editor | Adele Robey |
| Bibliography Editors | Peter E. Hanff, Patrick Maund |
| Review Editor | Sean P. Duffley |
| Contributing Editors | J. L. Bell, Angelica Carpenter, David Moyer, Jay Scarfone |
Front cover art by W. W. Denslow (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
Interior front cover photograph by an unknown photographer (Banner Elk Land of Oz theme park)
Interior front cover art by an unknown artist (sheet music featuring Larry Semon)
Interior back cover art by an unknown artist (1929 Briar Patch yearbook)
Back cover art by Chuck Jones (Off to See the Wizard)
Spring 2000 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.
Ruth Plumly Thompson, Pen Pal
Helen Didriksen looks back at Ruth Plumly Thompson’s post-Oz career as “Perky Pat,” the puppet, communicating with child readers via letters, stories, and poems in “his” pages in Jack and Jill Magazine from 1962–69. Several visual examples of the “Perky Pat” letters are included.
Mike and Ann in Oz
A (short) original Oz story, with several illustrations, reproduced directly from the 1958 Miles Kimball Company Christmas catalog. Surprisingly, the story and pictures involve several Baum characters as opposed to their MGM incarnations.
Apple Trees, Yellow Bricks, and Souvenirs—Oh My! Banner Elk’s Land of Oz
Sean Barrett tells the story of the Land of Oz theme park in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and its brief life from 1970–80, as well as its modern resurrection as the Autumn in Oz festival. Includes several vintage photographs from early in the park’s life. Later in the issue, Barrett also provides a full checklist of Land of Oz souvenir merchandise from its original ten-year run.
Selling Larry Semon’s Oz
William Stillman looks back at the marketing of Chadwick’s The Wizard of Oz in 1925, including promotional copy, advertisements, magazine spreads, and contests. Includes several visual examples.
Ken McLellan’s Cartoon Dream
William Stillman delves into an Oz that almost-was: Kenneth McLellan’s animated Oz cartoons. Maud Baum signed a contract with McLellan in 1938 allowing him to produce animated shorts based on the Oz characters, inviting the curiosity of Ruth Plumly Thompson and Frank O’Donnell of Reilly & Lee; however, the cartoons never materialized. Includes character concepts and storyboards from McLellan’s Oz pitch.
In Memoriam
Frank Loomis (collector, convention regular, and Baum Bugle contributor).
Reviews
The Hidden Prince of Oz by Virginia Wickwar (fiction; reviewer J. L. Bell)
The Ridiculous Rivals in Oz by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Christopher Michael Dulabone (fiction; reviewer M.A. Berg)
I Want to Grow Up in Oz by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer M.A. Berg)
The Land Before Oz by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer M.A. Berg)
Visitors from Oz paperback edition by Martin Gardner (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
Der Zauberer von Oz translated into German with an afterword by Freya Stephan-Kuhn (fiction; reviewer Jane Pigney)
La Mirinda Soristo de Oz translated into Esperanto by H. R. Dreyer (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Centennial Edition illustrated by Michael Foreman (fiction; reviewer Brian A. Baker)
Heart of the Tin Man: The Collected Writings of Jack Haley edited by Mitchell Cohen (non-fiction; reviewer William Stillman)
A Foolish Fable from Oz by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Christopher M. Dulabone (fiction; reviewer M.A. Berg)
The Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition illustrated by Charles Santore (fiction; reviewer William Stillman)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Mauro Evangelista (fiction; reviewer William Stillman)