To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow." Dorothy followed her through… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
