 Cover of The Wonder City of Oz | |
| Author | John R. Neill |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | John R. Neill |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Oz Books |
| Genre | Children's novel Fantasy |
| Publisher | Reilly & Lee |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 318 pp. |
| Preceded by | Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz |
| Followed by | The Scalawagons of Oz |
The Wonder City of Oz (1940) is the thirty-fourth book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the first written and illustrated solely by John R. Neill[1] Neill introduced a modern-day reimagining change in tone that continued through his subsequent books, according to David L. Greene and Dick Martin of The Oz Scrapbook; "(His Oz entries) ...are highly imaginative, but the imagination is undisciplined; each book, in fact, has enough ideas to fill several."[2] In Neill's interpretation; Emerald City has skyscrapers and gas stations. Normally inanimate objects act alive: houses talk and fight, shoes sing (they have tongues), and clocks run. The book was followed by Neill's The Scalawagons of Oz (1941).
- ^ John R. Neill, The Wonder City of Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1940; New York, Books of Wonder, 1990.
- ^ David L. Greene and Dick Martin, The Oz Scrapbook, New York, Random House, 1977; p. 77.