Author | Jack Snow |
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Illustrator | Frank Kramer |
Language | English |
Series | The Oz Books |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Reilly & Lee |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | print (hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Magical Mimics in Oz |
Followed by | The Hidden Valley of Oz |
The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) is the thirty-eighth book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the second and last by Jack Snow.[1] It was illustrated by Frank G. Kramer. The book was followed by The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951). The novel entered the public domain in the United States when its copyright was not renewed as required.[2]
In The Shaggy Man of Oz as in his previous novel, The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946), Snow returned to the Oz books of Baum for his inspiration and his conceptual framework. He avoided all use of characters and plot elements introduced in the Oz books of Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill, his predecessors in the post of "Royal Historian of Oz."