Author's Note

AFTER the publication of "The Fantastic Wizard of OZ" I began to receive
letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and
asking me to "write thing more" just about the Straw man and the Tin Woodman.
At 1st I considered these little letters, frank and earnest although they
were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continuing to come
during succeeding months, and even as years.

Finally I secure one little girl, who ready made a long journey to see me and
prefer her request, -- and she is a "Dorothy," by the way -- that once a
thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for
the Straw man and the Tin Woodman I would be write the book, Either little
Dorothy was a fairy in