Keeping Learning Real

- The Truth About Your Child and Learning!

Dear Reader,

Nothing is more precious than the life of a child. It's an amazing experience watching that child grow as a result of what he is being fed. Even more humbling is observing the mind of that child develop.

The nourishment provided in the classroom establishes the basis for how that child will learn for the rest of his life. You only have one chance to "get it right."

My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz. And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: "Please have Dorothy go to the Land of Oz again"; or, "Why don't you make Ozma and Dorothy meet, and have a good time together?" Indeed, could I do all that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books to satisfy their demands. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.

The very marked success of my last year's fairy book, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz," convinces me that my readers like the Oz stories "best of all," as one little girl wrote me. So here, my dears, is a new Oz story in which is introduced Ann Soforth, the Queen of Oogahoo, whom Tik-Tok assisted in conquering our old acquaintance, the Nome Kin. It also tells of Betsy Bobin and how, after many adventures, she finally reached the marvelous Land of Oz.

How You Can Help Your Child Read & Write Better

There isn't a parent among us who doesn't want their children to succeed. That success has a direct correlation to how well and how early they are able to read and write.

What if there were a way you could teach your child to read before he or she ever reached a classroom? Isn't that something every caring parent would wish for?

Well, you needn't wait any longer. Someone has done the work and made it available to you. "Help Your Child Read & Write Better" has just hit the digital shelves and it's waiting for you right now!

These are just a few of the questions that you may be asking when thinking of planning your family dream vacation to Disneyland. I am sure that you may have many more!

I was totally amazed when I started planning my family vacation to Disneyland about how much there was that I REALLY NEEDED to know to make it the BEST Disneyland Family Vacation that we were ever going to have!

Dear Friend,

Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book" about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would 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 much without spoiling it.

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host of youngsters whose ideas I am requestsed to weave into the thread of my stories.

These ideas are often clever. They are also logical and interesting. So I have used them whenever I could find an opportunity, and it is but just that I acknowledge my indebtedness to my little friends.