Publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Date: May 17, 1900 • Location: Washington, United States

The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum were printed.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by the American author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.