Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy hopes that someday she and Toto can find their way back to the Land of Oz again. Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz is a 1987 direct-to-video animated short film introduced by Michael Gross of "Family Ties". It is based on "Ozma of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. On an ocean voyage bound for Australia with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale and Toto are swept overboard in a storm. Dorothy manages to climb in with a hen who had also fallen into the sea. Next morning, Dorothy finds the hen, whose name
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum's other works. After 1907's "Ozma of Oz," Baum devoted more of his energies to Oz. A 1906 contract between Baum and his publisher called for new Oz books at two-year intervals between 1907 and 1911. In fact, Baum accelerated this schedule, producing "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" only a year after the previous book. The effect of this effort on the quality of the resulting work can only be a matter of speculation; but commentators have noted that this fourth Oz book is darker and more troubling than usual. In it, Baum violates his own standard of leaving