What other Oz writings have the McGraws produced?
After the success of their two new books by Ruth Plumly Thompson, IWOC asked Eloise if she’d be interested in writing a new Oz book for them. Since she had no other major projects going at the time, she agreed, contacted her daughter, and the McGraws wrote The Forbidden Fountain of Oz, published in 1980. Eloise also wrote a slightly fictionalized account of Baum’s creation of Oz for Childcraft in the 1960s, called “The Magic Land” (reprinted in Oz-Story 2 in 1996), and submitted a story to Oziana, IWOC’s fiction magazine, for its 1990 edition. A few Oz references have slipped into Eloise’s other works, and she’s contributed some articles to The Baum Bugle, and the introduction to a new edition of The Wizard of Oz published by Aladdin in 1999. Eloise Jarvis McGraw’s first solo Oz novel, The Rundelstone of Oz, was first published in Oz-Story 6 in 2000, and as a book in 2001 (the latter with an introduction by her daughter), both from Hungry Tiger Press. She also edited Gina Wickwar’s The
