Toto (Oz) Toto (Oz) Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's "Oz" series of children's books, and works derived from them. His name is pronounced with a long "O", a homophone of "toe toe". He was originally a small terrier drawn by W. W. Denslow for the first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900). He reappears in numerous adaptations, such as "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "The Wiz" (1978) and "Return to Oz" (1985). Toto belongs to Dorothy Gale, the heroine of the first and many subsequent books. In the first book, he never spoke, although other animals,
Dorothy Gale the 1910 film. Eric Shanower's novel, "The Giant Garden of Oz", features a cow named Imogene. In the sixth Oz book by Baum, "The Emerald City of Oz" (1910), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", Dorothy brings them to live in Oz; the plot features a tour of Oz as a marvelous, Utopian land in which they have escaped the troubles of Kansas. She becomes princess of Oz and Ozma's "companion," essentially marrying the queen. Dorothy is a standard character,