‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”’Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find the
1900年,《綠野仙蹤》(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)在芝加哥出版問世,獲得廣大迴響。兩年後,被改編成百老匯舞台劇,亦大獲成功。作家鮑姆(L. Frank Baum, 1856–1919)遂於隔年開始陸續出版續作,在二十年間,一共創作了十四本系列故事。鮑姆辭世之後,由女作家Ruth P. Thompson接棒創作,另外也有其他作家的個別創作,於是講述奧茲國故事的創作,至少