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—To My Readers—
1. The Way to Butterfield
2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright
3. A Queer Village
4. King Dox
5. The Rainbow's Daughter
6. The City of Beasts
7. The Shaggy Man's Transformation
8. The Musicker
9. Facing the Scoodlers
10. Escaping the Soup-Kettle
11. Johnny Dooit Does It
12. The Deadly Desert Crossed
13. The Truth Pond
14. Tik-Tok and Billina
15. The Emperor's Tin Castle
16. Visiting the Pumpkin-Field
17. The Royal Chariot Arrives
18. The Emerald City
19. The Shaggy Man's Welcome
20. Princess Ozma of Oz
21. Dorothy Receives the Guests
22. Important Arrivals
23. The Grand Banquet
24. The Birthday Celebration
Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book"about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because youwanted him to be there, and many other characters which you willrecognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my littlecorrespondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and ifthe story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, youmust remember that a story has to be a story before it can be writtendown, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.
In the preface to "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" I said I would like towrite some stories that were not "Oz" stories, because I thought I hadwritten about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published Ihave been fairly deluged with letters from children imploring me