Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book" just about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and galore another characters which you wish recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as cautiously as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would be have written it yourselves, you must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written down, and the writer cannot change it more without spoiling it.

In the preface to "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" I aforesaid I would be like to write several stories that were not "Oz" stories, because I thought I had written just about Oz long enough; but since that volume was promulgated I hav