L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker
First edition | |
Author | L. Frank Baum |
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Illustrator | Maginel Wright Enright John R. Neill |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry, Humor, Fantasy, Drama |
Publisher | Reilly & Britton |
Publication date | 1910 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 196 pp. |
L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker: Readings and Recitations in Prose and Verse, Humorous and Otherwise is an anthology of literary works by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. The book was first published in 1910, with illustrations by veteran Baum artists John R. Neill and Maginel Wright Enright; a subsequent 1912 edition was retitled Baum's Own Book for Children.[1] The book constitutes a complex element in the Baum bibliography.[2]
Baum intended the anthology for schools, to be used in instruction in public speaking. The collection includes versions of previously published material from Baum's Oz books, Father Goose, and other works, plus new selections like Prince Marvel, a short play for child actors based on The Enchanted Island of Yew.
One of the selections is "Little Bun Rabbit," the final piece in Baum's Mother Goose in Prose from 1897. The protagonist in Baum's version of the nursery rhyme is a little girl who can talk to animals – named Dorothy. When Baum reprinted in story in his Juvenile Speaker, he changed the character's name to Doris, to forestall confusion with Dorothy Gale from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[3][4]
Baum made other revisions in his reprinted texts. One example: the 20th chapter in The Wonderful Wizard, "The Dainty China Country," was revised into a stand-alone tale, "In Chinaland;" and Baum removed the detail in which the Cowardly Lion accidentally destroys a small china church with his tail.[5]
Reprints
Materials from the Juvenile Speaker were republished in different volumes in later years. In 1916 and 1917, Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton issued stories from the anthology in six smaller 62-page books collectively called The Snuggle Tales, with black-and-white Neill illustrations. (They were originally sold for $0.40 each.) The publisher had used this approach successfully in the Little Wizard Stories of Oz in 1913–14, as a way of reaching beginning readers. The six Snuggle Tales books are:
- Little Bun Rabbit and Other Stories (1916)
- Once Upon a Time and Other Stories (1916)
- The Yellow Hen and Other Stories (1916)
- The Magic Cloak and Other Stories (1916)
- The Gingerbread Man (1917)
- Jack Pumpkinhead (1917).
In turn, The Snuggle Tales were later republished with added color plates as the Oz-Man Tales, issued in 1920.
To illustrate the type of materials involved, consider the contents of the fourth Snuggle Tales volume, The Magic Cloak and Other Stories:
- "The Weaving of the Magic Cloak" — from Queen Zixi of Ix
- "When the Whistle Blows" (poem)
- "In Chinaland" — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- "The Greedy Goldfish" (poem) — from Father Goose, His Book
- "Santa Claus's First Journey" — from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- "The Head of the King" — from The Magical Monarch of Mo
- "The Tramp" (poem) — from By the Candelabra's Glare
- "The Mantle of Immortality" — from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- "The King of Thieves" — from The Enchanted Island of Yew
- "Melting a Wicked Witch" — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- "Miss Violin's Beau" (a punning poem)
- "The Beautiful Valley of Mo" — from The Magical Monarch of Mo.
References
- ^ Patrick M. Maund, "Bibliographia Baumiana: L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker and Baum's Own Book for Children," The Baum Bugle, Vol. 40 No. 3 (Winter 1996), pp. 32-3.
- ^ Douglas G. Greene and Peter E. Hanff, Bibliographia Oziana: A Concise Bibliographical Checklist of the Oz Books of L. Frank Baum and His Successors, revised and enlarged edition, Kinderhook, IL, International Wizard of Oz Club, 1988.
- ^ L. Frank Baum, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Patrick Hearn; revised edition, New York, W. W. Norton, 2000; p. 12.
- ^ Martin Gardner, "Mother Goose in Prose," The Baum Bugle, Vol. 41 No. 3 (Winter 1997), pp. 8-12; see p. 10.
- ^ The Annotated Wizard of Oz, p. 328.
External links
- L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- The Magical Monarch of Mo
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Dot and Tot of Merryland
- The Master Key
- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- The Enchanted Island of Yew
- The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Queen Zixi of Ix
- The Fate of a Crown
- The Woggle-Bug Book
- Annabel
- Aunt Jane's Nieces
- Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
- Daughters of Destiny
- Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea
- The Twinkle Tales
- John Dough and the Cherub
- Ozma of Oz
- Policeman Bluejay
- The Last Egyptian
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville
- Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work
- The Road to Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
- The Emerald City of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
- The Daring Twins
- The Flying Girl
- The Sea Fairies
- Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
- Phoebe Daring
- Sky Island
- Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West
- Tik-Tok of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
- The Scarecrow of Oz
- Mary Louise
- Rinkitink in Oz
- The Lost Princess of Oz
- The Tin Woodman of Oz
- The Magic of Oz
- Glinda of Oz
collections
- Mother Goose in Prose
- American Fairy Tales
- Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz
- Animal Fairy Tales
- L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker
- Little Wizard Stories of Oz
- The Runaway Shadows
collections
- By the Candelabra's Glare
- Father Goose: His Book
- The Maid of Arran
- The Wizard of Oz (1902)
- Prince Silverwings
- The Woggle-Bug
- The Tik-Tok Man of Oz
- The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
- The Magic Cloak of Oz
- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
- Violet's Dreams
- The Gray Nun of Belgium
and collaborators
- Maud Gage Baum (wife)
- Matilda Joslyn Gage (mother-in-law)
- Frank Joslyn Baum (son)
- Harry Neal Baum (son)
- Roger S. Baum (great-grandson)
- Jocelyn Burdick (niece)
- Paul Tietjens
- Edith Ogden Harrison
- Isidore Witmark
- Louis F. Gottschalk
- Nathaniel D. Mann
- Frederic Chapin
- Manuel Klein
- Arthur Pryor
- Byron Gay
- Emerson Hough
- William Wallace Denslow
- John R. Neill
- The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990 film)