Dot und Tot von Lustigland (Ungekürzt)

Geschrieben von L. Frank Baum und Jörg Karau

Erzählt von Patrizia Grawe

L. Frank Baums "Dot and Tot of Merryland" erschien 1901, ein Jahr nach "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", und Baum und sein Illustrator W. W. Denslow erhofften sich von dem neuen Buch einen ähnlichen Erfolg. Der blieb aber zu ihrer Enttäuschung aus; das Buch geriet neben den "Oz"-Geschichten nahezu in Vergessenheit. 1994 hat es der New Yorker Verlag The Emerald City Press in seiner Reihe "Books of Wonder" neu aufgelegt (mit Bildern von Donald Abbott) und The Bobbs Merrill Company in Indianapolis hat - ohne Jahresangabe - eine Art Faksimile der Originalausgabe mit Denslows Illustrationen (leider nur in SchwarzWeiß) herausgebracht. "Dot und Tot von Lustigland" ist eine seltene Übersetzung, da im deutschen Sprachraum hauptsächlich nur die "Oz"-Geschichten bekannt.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Bookstream Hörbücher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23. Sept. 2022
• ISBN: 9783991244370

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.