Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Oz and Ends reader Judy Cataldo kindly sent me this photo of a gingerbread and candy landscape displayed at the Strawbery Banke Museum in December.
Titled “Trail of Oz,” it was created by Zachary, Alexia, Nicholas, and Mimi.
Fans of the Oz books will be pleased to see how more than one Yellow Brick Road converges at the Emerald City. Of course, this sticky terrain is more like what we’d expect to find in Mo.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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