"The Wizard of Oz" is America's favorite children's book. And among critics and librarians, it was once the most despised.

With "Wicked" the movie being an adaptation of the stage musical which is an adaptation of the book, things get confusing.

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books ... Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, he imagined the Wizard ...

The Munchkins, Land of Oz natives who hail from Munchkinland, were all smaller than the character of Dorothy in both L. Frank Baum's 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the famous 1939 film ...

The film, adapted from the popular Broadway musical based on Gregory Maguire's book, and directed by John M. Chu, is a revelatory prequel to “The Wizard of Oz," and the first of a two-part epic.

After the successful broadcast of The Wizard of Oz in 1956, the film didn’t air on television again until 1959 when it returned to CBS, but not in November. Between 1959 and 1962, the film was ...

Only four pairs made for the film, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (1900), still survive, and those on sale have belonged to a collector ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The "Wicked" movie is a revelation — and it's full of references to "The Wizard of Oz" and the original "Wicked" Broadway show that came ...

The Wizard of Oz is receiving a new wave of attention, and people revisiting the 1939 film are uncovering unsettling allegations about its production. On November 24, Eveleen Pahau, who posts on ...

“Wicked,” as you likely know, is a prequel to the original “The Wizard of Oz” movie, which itself is based on L. Frank Baum’s expansive children’s book series. If you want to learn ...

That makes this week the perfect time to revisit its inspiration: “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), directed by Victor Fleming, written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf ...

"We never use the ruby slippers. Nessa has on crystal slippers as in the L Frank Baum book [The Wizard of Oz], Gregory Maguire book [Wicked] and the stage show.” The Now You See Me 2 director ...