It’s no use; no use at all. The children won’t let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won’t allow me. They cry: ’Oz—Oz! more about Oz, Mr. Baum!’ and what can I do but obey their commands?
This is Our Book—mine and the children’s. For they have flooded me with thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly tried to adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one story.
After the wonderful success of ’Ozma of Oz’ it is evident that Dorothy has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. The little ones all love Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: ’It isn’t a real Oz story without her.’ So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure.