The Emerald Wand of Oz / Inscribed 1st Edition / 2005

  By Sherwood SmithIllustrated by William Stout This Oz book was written by Sherwood Smith and illustrated by William Stout. It is the first in the series of new Oz novels commissioned by the L. Frank Baum Family Trust, which was published on January 1, 2005. Em and Dori are two descendants of Dorothy Gale, mourning their parents' separation. Like their ancestor, they are carried to Oz by a tornado. Once there, they learn that Oz faces a new threat in Bastinda, a descendant of the Wicked Witch of the West. The girls fall in with beauty pageant unicorns, an odd boy named Rik, and enduring characters like the Scarecrow, the Patchwork Girl, and the Glass Cat. Strange dark clouds hover over the Emerald City; Princess Ozma, and her people are under an evil spell cast by Bastinda, the new Wicked Witch of the West, and Dorothy is nowhere to be found! It is up to Em and Dori to reverse the spell and save the people of Oz. But to do that, they must get hold of the magic wand used to cast it --