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,
The Tik-Tok Man of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter (which created some continuity inconsistencies when it was adapted to the novel), both of which were influenced by "Prince Silverwings". Betsy Bobbin was intended to be Dorothy Gale, but the characters in "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Woggle-Bug" were contractually unavailable to him—although "Ozma" remained from "The Woggle-Bug", she was a wholly different character renamed Ozga for the books. It also adapted the Rose Kingdom from the Kingdom of Mangaboos in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", and Queen Ann was derived from General Jinjur in spite of the failure of "The Woggle-Bug". The