Ellie emerald. Emerald City -=Books=

Year: 1939 Genre: story

Main characters: girl Ellie, dog Totoshka, wizard Goodwin

The girl, whose name is Ellie, lives in Kansas. She has both a father and a mother. They are farmers. The whole family lives in a small, but quite roomy, van. One day, a strong whirlwind breaks into their territory, which takes the girl along with the van and her own dog, whose name is Totoshka.

They find themselves in an unusual country - magical. Magical creatures live there. In addition, there are good and bad characters. And the little girl has to fight with many bad personalities, but she soon finds friends who are missing something in their lives. They all go to Emerald City to ask the Wizard, the ruler of that country, what they want to have. Ellie, for example, really wants to go home.

Summary of the Wizard of the Emerald City of Volkov

The main character of the work is a girl named Ellie. She has a true friend - a dog named Totoshka. One day, the girl, together with Totoshka, finds herself in an unusual mysterious country. Although Ellie likes this magical place, where everything is built differently than in the usual world, the main character really wants to return home. In this she is helped by a kind sorceress who gives the young heroine good advice.

It turns out that a wizard named Goodwin lives in this amazing country. Only he can help Ellie and her friend Totoshka get back home. But before you ask Goodwin for help, you need to find him. The good sorceress tells the main character that this great wizard lives in the beautiful Emerald City. After that, Ellie sets off on her journey, which is filled with various adventures. On the way to Goodwin, the girl will meet many new friends who will help her get to the Emerald City.

Ellie's very first acquaintance is a lumberjack. He has one old dream, he wants to get a heart in order to become kind. Later, on the girl's path, she meets a lion who dreams of courage incredibly strongly. After a while, Ellie meets a scarecrow who also has one wish. The scarecrow dreamed of getting a brain.

After meeting and making friends, Ellie, the scarecrow, the lion and the lumberjack continue their journey. Finally reaching the Emerald City, they find a lumberjack there. It soon turns out that he is not a magician at all, so he cannot fulfill their cherished dreams in any way. Goodwin got into a magical land with the help of a ball and now he cannot return home. But this test of the main characters is just beginning. Ellie and her new friends will successfully step over all the difficulties. And soon the lion, the scarecrow and the woodcutter will get what they have long dreamed of.

After a while, Goodwin decides to fix the balloon so that he can return home with Ellie on it. But a strong wind breaks the rope holding the ball and the "wizard" flies away by himself, without the girl. But Ellie does not despair. She learns that in the Pink Country there is a kind sorceress who can do everything that the girl returned home. Once in this country and finding a sorceress, the main character learns a big secret. It turns out that the magical silver shoes that she wears will be able to return her home. Ellie then returns safely to her home.

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A. Volkov

The Wizard of Oz

Ellie lived in the great Kansas steppe. Her uncle, farmer John, worked all day in the fields, and her aunt Anna took care of the housework.

They lived in a van, taken off the wheels and put on the ground.

The furnishings of the house were poor: an iron stove, a wardrobe, a table, three chairs and two beds. There was a hatch in the middle of the floor through which one could go down to the "hurricane cellar". In the cellar, the family sat out during storms.

Kansas hurricanes had knocked over Uncle John's home more than once. But John did not lose heart: when the wind subsided, he raised a light house, the stove and beds were put in place, Ellie collected pewter plates and mugs - and everything was in order until the next hurricane.

A dull, gray steppe stretched all around to the very horizon. A match for the gloomy steppe was the hostess of the house.

Aunt Anna never smiled: Ellie's laughter and noisy games with the cheerful dog Totoshka surprised her. She did not understand how one could play and laugh in such a boring country.

Kansas was Ellie's home. She was born in the same small house, and the same steppe was around, and in the same storm her parents sat out in the "hurricane cellar." And when Ellie was orphaned, Uncle John took her in.

Ellie helped Aunt Anna with the housework. Uncle John taught her to read, write and count. He promised to take her to a fair in a nearby town, and the girl was looking forward to the trip. More than once she dreamed of fair booths with toys and sweets, a circus, cages of a wandering menagerie with monkeys and lions.

The girl loved to play with Totoshka. It was a black dog with long, silky hair, a shaggy muzzle, pointed ears, and small, funny-shining black eyes. Totoshka was always cheerful. He was ready to play with the girl all day long.

But today Ellie was not up to him. Uncle John sat on the doorstep, looking uneasily up at the sky, grayer than usual. Ellie stood beside her uncle with Toto in her arms. Aunt Anna washed the dishes in the house. Soon Uncle John and Ellie heard the roar of the wind from the north. Grass lay down on the ground, and waves ran over it. At the same time, an approaching wind noise was heard from the south. Uncle John jumped up.

There will be a hurricane! I'm going to drive the cattle into the barn! he hurried.

Aunt Anna ran to the door.

Hurry, Ellie! she screamed piercingly. - To the cellar!

Aunt Anna opened the cellar door and went down into the dark pit. Toto slipped out of the girl's arms and hid under the bed. Ellie tried in vain to get him out of there. Finally, she caught Totoshka and was already near the hatch, but a gust of a hurricane shook the house so much that the girl involuntarily sat down on the floor.

A strange thing happened.

The house rolled over two or three times like a merry-go-round and rose slowly. The north and south winds clashed where the light house stood. He was at the center of the cyclone. The whirlwind swirled him, lifted him up and carried him through the air.

The room was dim, and the wind was howling all around. The house, swaying, rushed through the air. Totoshka was dissatisfied. He ran around the room with a gambling bark, dissatisfied with what was happening around. Ellie sat perplexedly on the floor. Suddenly Totoshka ran up to the open hatch and fell into it. The girl screamed in horror and grief. But soon the dog's pointed ears appeared from the hole. Air pressure pushed Toto back, and he floated among the hatch, squealing with fear. The girl crawled to the hole, pulled the dog out by the ear and slammed the door.

Ellie felt very lonely. The wind was so roaring that it deafened her. It seemed to her that the house was about to fall and break. But time passed, and the house was still flying. Ellie climbed onto the bed and lay down, hugging Toto. Under the rumble of the wind gently rocking the house, Ellie fell asleep soundly.

Ellie in Munchkin Country

Ellie woke up from a strong push and remembered what had happened. Toto licked Ellie's face with a hot wet tongue and whined. The girl jumped out of bed. The house didn't move. The sun shone brightly through the window. Ellie ran to the door, flung it open - and screamed in surprise.

The hurricane brought the house to a land of extraordinary beauty. All around were green lawns; along their edges grew trees with ripe, juicy fruits; flowerbeds of beautiful flowers could be seen in the clearings. Unseen, brightly feathered birds fluttered and sang. A clear stream gurgled in the distance; silvery fish frolic in the water.

This picture struck Ellie. It seemed to her that she was seeing an amazing dream. Ellie even rubbed her eyes, but everything remained in its place.

While the girl stood hesitantly on the threshold, the most amusing and sweet little men imaginable appeared from behind the trees. They were no taller than Ellie. The men were dressed in blue velvet caftans and tight trousers; on his feet shone blue jackboots with lapels. But most of all, Ellie liked the pointed hats: crystal balls decorated the top of them, and small bells tinkled softly under the wide brim.

An old woman, all in white, stepped importantly ahead of the three men; tiny stars glittered on her pointed hat and on her mantle. The old woman's gray hair fell over her shoulders.

In the distance, beyond the fruit trees, a whole crowd of little people could be seen; they stood whispering and looking at each other, but did not dare to come closer.

The ambassadors of these timid little people smiled affably and somewhat fearfully at Ellie. Then they moved forward together and took off their hats at once. "Ding-ding-ding!" the bells rang. Ellie noticed that the little people's jaws moved incessantly, as if they were chewing something.

The old woman turned to Ellie:

Mighty Fairy! Welcome to the land of the East! You killed the evil sorceress Gingem and freed the Munchkins!

Ellie was amazed. Why is she called a fairy and who could she destroy, Ellie, who did not even kill a sparrow in her life?!

The little old lady was waiting for an answer.

Ellie said:

You are very kind, but there is a mistake: I did not kill anyone.

The house did it, but, of course, on your orders, ”said the white old woman.

And the little men exclaimed in chorus:

This is your house - Krak! crack! - killed the evil sorceress Gingem! and waved their hats together.

"Ding-ding-ding!" the bells rang.

Look! The old woman pointed to the corner of the house. - There her feet!

Ellie recoiled with a cry of horror. A pair of legs in pretty silver shoes protruded from under the house.

Ah, what grief! cried Ellie, clasping her hands. - It's all the nasty hurricane's fault! What to do?

© A. Volkov, heirs, 2003

© L. V. Vladimirsky, illustrations, 1959, 1997

© AST Publishing House LLC

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The Wizard of Oz

Hurricane

In the middle of the vast Kansas steppe lived a girl, Ellie. Her father, farmer John, worked in the fields all day, and her mother, Anna, took care of the housework.

They lived in a small van, removed from the wheels and put on the ground.

The furnishings of the house were poor: an iron stove, a wardrobe, a table, three chairs and two beds. Next to the house, at the very door, a "hurricane cellar" was dug out. In the cellar, the family sat out during storms.

Steppe hurricanes more than once overturned farmer John's light dwelling. But John did not lose heart: when the wind subsided, he raised the house, the stove and the beds fell into place. Ellie was picking up pewter plates and mugs from the floor, and everything was fine until the next hurricane.

The steppe stretched out to the very horizon, as flat as a tablecloth. Here and there one could see the same poor houses as John's house. Around them were arable lands where farmers sowed wheat and corn.

Ellie knew all the neighbors well for three miles around. Uncle Robert lived in the west with his sons Bob and Dick. Old Rolf lived in a house in the north. He made wonderful windmills for children.

The wide steppe did not seem dull to Ellie: after all, it was her homeland, Ellie did not know any other places. She saw mountains and forests only in pictures, and they did not attract her, perhaps because they were poorly drawn in cheap Hellenic books.

When Ellie got bored, she called the cheerful dog Toto and went to visit Dick and Bob or went to Grandpa Rolf, from whom she never returned without a homemade toy.

Barking, Totoshka jumped across the steppe, chasing crows, and was infinitely pleased with himself and his little mistress. Totoshka had black hair, pointed ears, and small, funny eyes that shone. Toto was never bored and could play with the girl all day long.

Ellie had a lot to worry about. She helped her mother with the housework, and her father taught her to read, write and count, because the school was far away, and the girl was still too young to go there every day.

Ellie was sitting on the porch one summer evening, reading a story aloud. Anna was washing clothes.

“And then the strong, mighty hero Arnaulf saw a wizard as tall as a tower,” Ellie read in a singsong voice, running her finger along the lines. “From the mouth and nostrils of the magician flew fire…”

“Mommy,” Ellie asked, looking up from her book, “are there wizards now?”

“No, my dear.

Wizards lived in the old days, and then they disappeared. And what are they for? And without them, it's quite a hassle ...

Ellie wrinkled her nose funny.

“Still, it’s boring without wizards. If I suddenly became a queen, I would definitely order that there should be a magician in every city and in every village. And that he performed all sorts of miracles for children.

- What, for example? Mother asked smiling.

- Well, what ... So that every girl and every boy, waking up in the morning, would find a big sweet gingerbread under their pillow ... Or ... - Ellie looked sadly at her rough, worn shoes. “Or that all the children should have nice light shoes.

“You can get shoes even without a wizard,” Anna objected. - You will go with dad to the fair, he will buy ...

While the girl was talking to her mother, the weather began to deteriorate.

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Just at this very time, in a distant country, behind high mountains, the evil sorceress Gingema was conjuring in a gloomy deep cave.

It was terrible in the cave of Gingema. There, under the ceiling, hung a stuffed animal of a huge crocodile. Large owls sat on high poles, and bundles of dried mice hung from the ceiling, tied to strings by their tails like onions. A long thick snake coiled itself around the post and shook its flat head evenly. And there were many other strange and terrible things in the vast cave of Gingema.

In a large, sooty cauldron, Gingema brewed a magic potion. She threw mice into the cauldron, tearing them one by one from the bundle.

Where did the snake heads go? Gingema grumbled angrily. - I didn’t eat everything at breakfast! .. Ah, here they are, in a green pot! Well, now the potion will turn out well!.. These damned people will get it! I hate them! Spread around the world! Swamps dried up! They cut down the thickets!.. They brought out all the frogs!.. They destroy the snakes! There is nothing tasty left on earth! Unless you just eat a worm! ..

Gingema shook her bony, withered fist into space and began to throw snake heads into the cauldron.

“Oh, hateful people! So my potion is ready to kill you! I will sprinkle the forests and fields, and a storm will rise, such as has never happened before in the world!

Gingema grabbed the cauldron by the "lugs" and with an effort pulled it out of the cave. She dipped a large broom into the cauldron and began to splash her brew around.

- Break out, hurricane! Fly around the world like a rabid animal! Rip, break, crush! Overturn houses, lift into the air! Susaka, masaka, lama, rema, gema!.. Burido, furido, sema, pema, fema!..

She was screaming out magic words and sprinkled around with disheveled broomstick, and the sky darkened, clouds gathered, the wind began to whistle. Lightning flashed in the distance...

- Crush, tear, break! the witch yelled wildly. - Susaka, masaka, burido, furido! Destroy, hurricane, people, animals, birds! Only frogs, mice, snakes, spiders do not touch, hurricane! May they multiply all over the world to the joy of me, the mighty sorceress Gingem! Burido, furido, susaka, masaka!

And the whirlwind howled stronger and stronger, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled deafeningly.

Gingema whirled around in wild delight, and the wind fluttered the skirts of her long mantle ...

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The hurricane, caused by the magic of Gingema, reached Kansas and was approaching John's house every minute. In the distance, clouds were thickening on the horizon, lightning flashed.

Toto ran uneasily, his head thrown back, and fervently barked at the clouds, which quickly raced across the sky.

“Oh, Totoshka, how funny you are,” Ellie said. - You scare the clouds, but you yourself are a coward!

The dog really was very afraid of thunderstorms. He had seen many of them in his short life. Anna was worried.

- I chatted with you, daughter, but, look, a real hurricane is coming ...

The thunderous rumble of the wind was already clearly audible. The wheat in the field lay flat on the ground, and waves rolled over it like a river. An excited farmer John came running from the field.

“Storm, a terrible storm is coming! he shouted. - Hide quickly in the cellar, and I will run to drive the cattle into the barn!

Anna rushed to the cellar, threw back the lid.

Ellie, Ellie! Hurry over here! she screamed.

But Totoshka, frightened by the roar of the storm and the incessant peals of thunder, ran away to the house and hid there under the bed, in the farthest corner. Ellie did not want to leave her pet alone and rushed to the van after him.

And at that time an amazing thing happened.

The house turned two or three times like a carousel. He was in the middle of a hurricane. The whirlwind swirled him, lifted him up and carried him through the air.

Frightened Ellie appeared at the door of the van with Toto in her arms. What to do? Jump to the ground? But it was already too late: the house was flying high above the ground ...

The wind ruffled Anna's hair. She stood near the cellar, holding out her hands and screaming desperately. Farmer John came running from the barn and rushed to where the wagon was parked. The orphaned father and mother looked for a long time into the dark sky, constantly illuminated by the brilliance of lightning ...

The hurricane kept raging, and the house, swaying, rushed through the air. Totoshka, shocked by what was going on around him, ran around the dark room barking in fright. Ellie, confused, sat on the floor, clutching her head in her hands. She felt very lonely. The wind was blowing so that it deafened her. It seemed to her that the house was about to fall and break. But time passed, and the house was still flying. Ellie climbed onto the bed and lay down, hugging Toto. Under the rumble of the wind gently rocking the house, Ellie fell asleep soundly.

yellow brick road

Ellie in the amazing land of Munchkins

Ellie woke up to the dog licking her face with a hot wet tongue and whining. At first it seemed to her that she had a wonderful dream, and Ellie was about to tell her mother about it. But, seeing the overturned chairs, the stove lying on the floor, Ellie realized that everything was in reality.

The girl jumped out of bed. The house didn't move. The sun shone brightly through the window. Ellie ran to the door, flung it open, and screamed in surprise.

The hurricane brought the house to a land of extraordinary beauty. Around it stretched a green lawn, along its edges grew trees with ripe juicy fruits; in the clearings one could see flowerbeds of beautiful pink, white and blue flowers. Tiny birds fluttered through the air, glittering with bright plumage. Golden-green and red-breasted parrots sat on the branches of the trees and screamed in high, strange voices. A clear stream gurgled in the distance, and silvery fish frolicked in the water.

While the girl stood hesitantly on the threshold, the most amusing and sweet little men imaginable appeared from behind the trees. The men, dressed in blue velvet coats and tight trousers, were no taller than Ellie; on their feet shone blue jackboots with cuffs. But most of all, Ellie liked the pointed hats: their tops were decorated with crystal balls, and under the wide brim little bells tinkled gently.

An old woman in a white robe stepped importantly ahead of the three men; tiny stars glittered on her pointed hat and on her mantle. The old woman's gray hair fell over her shoulders.

In the distance, behind the fruit trees, a whole crowd of small men and women could be seen; they stood, whispering and looking at each other, but did not dare to come closer.

Approaching the girl, these timid little people smiled affably and somewhat fearfully at Ellie, but the old woman looked at her with obvious bewilderment. The three men moved forward in unison and took off their hats at once. "Ding-ding-ding!" - the bells rang. Ellie noticed that the jaws of the little men were constantly moving, as if they were chewing something.

The old woman turned to Ellie:

“Tell me, how did you end up in the land of the Munchkins, dear child?”

“I was brought here by a hurricane in this house,” Ellie answered timidly.

“Strange, very strange! The old woman shook her head. Now you will understand my confusion. Here is how it was. I learned that the evil sorceress Gingema had lost her mind and wanted to destroy the human race and populate the earth with rats and snakes. And I had to use all my magical art ...

- How, madame! Ellie exclaimed in fear. - Are you a magician? But how did my mother tell me that now there are no wizards?

- Where does your mom live?

- In Kansas.

“I have never heard such a name,” said the sorceress, pursing her lips. “But no matter what your mother says, wizards and sages live in this country. There were four of us here. Two of us - the sorceress of the Yellow Country (it's me, Villina!) and the sorceress of the Pink Country Stella - are kind. And the sorceress of the Blue Country Gingema and the sorceress of the Purple Country Bastinda are very evil. Your house crushed Gingema, and now there is only one evil sorceress in our country.

Ellie was amazed. How could she destroy the evil sorceress, a little girl who had not even killed a sparrow in her life?

Ellie said:

“Of course, you are mistaken: I didn’t kill anyone.

“I don’t blame you for this,” the sorceress Villina calmly objected. “After all, it was I who, in order to save people from trouble, deprived the hurricane of destructive power and allowed it to capture only one house in order to throw it on the head of the insidious Gingema, because I read in my magic book that it is always empty in a storm ...

Ellie shyly replied:

“It is true, madam, during hurricanes we hide in the cellar, but I ran to the house for my dog ​​...

“Such a reckless act could not have been foreseen by my magic book!” – the sorceress Villina was upset. “So this little beast is to blame…”

- Totoshka, av-av, with your permission, madam! - the dog suddenly intervened in the conversation. - Yes, I sadly admit that it's all my fault ...

- How did you speak, Totoshka? Ellie exclaimed in surprise.

“I don’t know how it works, Ellie, but, ah-ah, human words involuntarily fly out of my mouth ...

“You see, Ellie,” explained Villina, “not only people talk in this wonderful country, but all animals and even birds. Look around, do you like our country?

“She is not bad, madam,” answered Ellie, “but it is better at our house. You should have looked at our barnyard! You should look at our Pestrianka, ma'am! No, I want to return to my homeland, to my mother and father ...

“It is hardly possible,” said the sorceress. “Our country is separated from the whole world by a desert and huge mountains, through which not a single person has crossed. I'm afraid, my baby, that you'll have to stay with us.

Ellie's eyes filled with tears. The good Munchkins were very upset and also wept, wiping their tears with blue handkerchiefs. The Munchkins took off their hats and put them on the ground so that the bells would not stop them from crying with their ringing.

"Aren't you going to help me at all?" Ellie asked sadly.

“Ah, yes,” said Villina, “I completely forgot that I had my magic book with me. You need to look into it: maybe I will subtract something useful for you ...

Villina took out a tiny book the size of a thimble from the folds of her clothes. The sorceress blew on it, and in front of the surprised and a little frightened Ellie, the book began to grow and grow and turned into a huge volume. It was so heavy that the old woman laid it on a large stone.

Villina looked at the pages of the book, and they themselves turned over under her gaze.

- I found it, I found it! the sorceress suddenly exclaimed and began to read slowly: “Bambara, chufara, skoriki, moriki, turabo, furabo, loriki, yoriki ... The Great Magician Goodwin will return home a little girl brought to his country by a hurricane if she helps three creatures achieve the fulfillment of their most cherished desires, pickup truck, trikapu, botalo, shook ... "

“Pickup, trikapu, botalo, dangling…” the Munchkins repeated in holy horror.

Who is Goodwin? Ellie asked.

“Oh, this is the Greatest Sage of our country,” the old woman whispered. “He is more powerful than all of us and lives in the Emerald City.

Is he evil or good?

“No one knows. But do not be afraid, find three creatures, fulfill their cherished desires, and the Wizard of the Emerald City will help you return to your country!

Where is the Emerald City? Ellie asked.

- It's in the middle of the country. The Great Sage and Wizard Goodwin himself built it and manages it. But he surrounded himself with extraordinary secrecy, and no one saw him after the construction of the city, and it ended many, many years ago.

How will I get to the Emerald City?

- The road is long. Not everywhere the country is good, like here. There are dark forests with terrible beasts, there are fast rivers - crossing them is dangerous...

- Won't you come with me? the girl asked.

“No, my child,” answered Villina. “I cannot leave the Yellow Country for long. You must go alone. The road to the Emerald City is paved with yellow bricks and you won't get lost. When you come to Goodwin, ask him for help...

“How long will I have to live here, madame?” Ellie asked with her head down.

“I don’t know,” Villina replied. “There is nothing about this in my magic book. Go, search, fight! I will look into the magic book from time to time to know how you are doing ... Farewell, my dear!

Villina leaned over the huge book, which immediately shrunk to the size of a thimble and disappeared into the folds of her robe. A whirlwind swooped in, it became dark, and when the darkness dissipated, Villina was no longer there: the sorceress had disappeared.

Ellie and the Munchkins trembled with fear, and the bells on the little people's hats jingled of their own accord.

When everyone calmed down a little, the most courageous of the Munchkins, their foreman, turned to Ellie:

- Powerful fairy! Welcome to Blue Country! You killed the evil Gingem and freed the Munchkins!

Ellie said:

- You are very kind, but there is a mistake: I am not a fairy. And after all, you heard that my house fell on Gingham on the orders of the sorceress Villina ...

“We don’t believe it,” Chief Zhevunov stubbornly objected. - We heard your conversation with a good sorceress, botalo, shook, but we think that you are a powerful fairy. After all, only fairies can ride through the air in their houses, and only a fairy could free us from Gingema, the evil sorceress of the Blue Country. Gingema ruled over us for many years and made us work day and night...

She made us work day and night! the Munchkins said in unison.

“She ordered us to catch spiders and bats, collect frogs and leeches from the ditches. These were her favorite foods...

“And we,” cried the Munchkins, “we are very afraid of spiders and leeches!”

- What are you crying about? Ellie asked. - It's all gone!

- True true! The Munchkins laughed together, and the bells on their hats tinkled.

“Mighty Mistress Ellie!” the sergeant spoke. - Do you want to become our mistress instead of Gingema? We are sure that you are very kind and will not punish us too often! ..

“No,” Ellie objected, “I’m only a little girl and I’m not fit to be the ruler of the country. If you want to help me, give me the opportunity to fulfill your cherished desires!

- We had only one desire - to get rid of the evil Gingema, pickup, pickup! But your house is a crack! crack! - crushed her, and we no longer have desires! .. - said the foreman.

“Then I have nothing to do here. I will go looking for those who have desires. Only now my shoes are very old and torn - they will not withstand a long journey. Really, Toto? Ellie turned to the dog.

"Of course they won't," Totoshka agreed. “But don’t worry, Ellie, I saw something nearby and I’ll help you!”

- You? – the girl was surprised.

- Yes I! Toto answered proudly and disappeared behind the trees. A minute later he returned with a beautiful silver slipper in his teeth and laid it solemnly at Ellie's feet. A gold buckle gleamed on the shoe.

- Where did you get it from? Ellie was dumbfounded.

- I'll tell you now! - answered the out of breath dog, disappeared and returned again with another shoe.

- How lovely! - said Ellie admiringly and tried on the shoes - they just fell on her leg, as if they were sewn on her.

“When I ran to reconnoiter,” Totoshka began importantly, “I saw a large black hole in the mountain behind the trees ...

- Ah ah ah! the Munchkins screamed in horror. - After all, this is the entrance to the cave of the evil sorceress Gingema! And you dared to enter there? ..

- What's so terrible about that? After all, Gingema is dead! - objected Totoshka.

You must be a magician too! - the foreman said with fear; all the other Munchkins nodded their heads in agreement, and the bells under their hats jingled in unison.

- It was there that, entering this, as you call it, cave, I saw many funny and strange things, but most of all I liked the shoes standing at the entrance. Some big birds with terrible yellow eyes tried to prevent me from taking my shoes, but is Toto afraid of anything when he wants to serve his Ellie?

- Oh, my dear daredevil! - exclaimed Ellie and gently pressed the dog to her chest. - In these shoes I will walk tirelessly as much as I like ...

“It’s very good that you got the shoes of the evil Gingema,” the elder Munchkin interrupted her. “They seem to have magical powers, because Gingema wore them only on the most important occasions. But what kind of power it is, we do not know ... And you are still leaving us, gracious Mrs. Ellie? – the foreman asked with a sigh. “Then we’ll bring you something to eat for the road.”

The Munchkins left and Ellie was left alone. She found a piece of bread in the house and ate it on the bank of the stream, washing it down with clear cold water. Then she began to get ready for a long journey, and Totoshka ran under a tree and tried to grab a noisy motley parrot sitting on the lower branch, which teased him all the time.

Ellie got out of the van, carefully closed the door, and wrote on it with chalk: "I'm not at home."

Meanwhile, the Munchkins returned. They brought in enough food to last Ellie for several years. There were sheep, roast geese and ducks, a fruit basket…

Ellie said with a laugh:

- Well, where do I get so much, my friends?

She put some bread and fruit in the basket, said goodbye to the Munchkins, and boldly set off on her journey with the cheerful Toto.

* * *

Not far from the house there was a crossroads: several roads diverged here. Ellie chose the yellow brick road and walked briskly along it. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the little girl, abandoned in an amazing foreign land, felt quite well.

The road was fenced on both sides with beautiful blue hedges. Behind them were cultivated fields. There were round houses here and there. Their roofs were like the pointed hats of the Munchkins. Crystal balls glittered on the roofs. The houses were painted blue.

Little men and women worked in the fields; they took off their hats and bowed amiably to Ellie. After all, now every Munchkin knew that a girl in silver shoes had liberated their country from an evil sorceress by lowering her house - krak! crack! - right on her head.

All the Munchkins that Ellie met on the way looked at Totoshka with fearful surprise and, hearing his barking, plugged their ears. When a cheerful dog ran up to one of the Munchkins, he ran away from him at the top of his lungs: there were no dogs at all in Goodwin's country.

Toward evening, when Ellie was hungry and wondering where to spend the night, she saw a large house by the road. Small men and women danced on the front lawn. The musicians diligently played small violins and flutes. Children frolic at once, so tiny that Ellie opened her eyes in amazement: they looked like dolls. The terrace was lined with long tables with vases full of fruits, nuts, sweets, delicious pies and large cakes.

THE WIZARD OF OZ.

(Based on the fairy tale by A. Volkov)

The script for the children's theater, where the children themselves will play.

CHARACTERS:

STORYTELLER
ELLIE
TOTOSHKA
GOOD WITCH VILLINA
SCARECROW
TIN WOODMAN
A LION
WIZARD OF THE EMERALD CITY GOODWIN
SOLDIER
EVIL WITCH BASTINDA
COOK

1 SCENE.

(Music.)

STORYTELLER: Long ago, in faraway Kansas, there lived a girl. And her name was Ellie. She was from a poor family. They had only a small house that stood in the middle of the Kansas steppe. And then, one day, a terrible hurricane came up, picked up the house, in which the girl Ellie and her beloved little dog Totoshka were just there, and carried them away in an unknown direction. They flew for a long time and then, finally, the house sank to the ground.

(Music. The curtain opens. Ellie is on stage with Totoshka.)

ELLIE: Where are we?

TOTOSHKA: Aw-Aw! We got to some unknown place!

ELLIE: Toto!
My sweet dog!
You can speak?

TOTOSHKA: Aw-Aw! Somehow I can speak human language!

ELLIE: Well then, we must have ended up in a magical land!

(Sorceress appears.)

ENCHANTRESS: Yes, my child! You really are in a magical land. And she is wonderful!
But our country is divided into four parts, and each part is ruled by sorceresses.
We have two sorceresses good and, unfortunately, two evil. Your house fell on the evil
the sorceress Gingem and crushed her. Now we have only one evil sorceress Bastinda left.

ELLIE: Madam, what are the names of good sorceresses?

ENCHANTRESS: One kind sorceress - Villina - is me, and the other is Stella.
Where are you from, my child?

ELLIE: I'm from Kansas. I would like to go back home. You don't know how to do it?

VILLINA: Now, my child, I will look at the magic book. From it we can know our future.

(Opens a magic book. Reads.)

VILLINA:“The Great Wizard Goodwin will bring back home a little girl brought to his country by a hurricane if she helps three creatures achieve their most cherished desires ...”

ELLIE: Who is Goodwin?

VILLINA: This is the greatest and most powerful sage in our country, and he lives in the Emerald City.

ELLIE: Where is the Emerald City?

VILLINA: It is located in the center of our country.
The road to the Emerald City is paved with yellow bricks. Follow it and you won't get lost.

ELLIE: Thank you, good sorceress Villina.

VILLINA: Wait, my child!
The evil sorceress Gingema still has silver slippers. Take them. They will come in handy. (gives shoes.)

ELLIE: Thank you! (takes shoes.)
Goodbye, good sorceress Villina!

VILLINA: Have a good trip, my child!

SCENE 2.

STORYTELLER: So, the girl Ellie and Toto went to the Emerald City. Along the way, many different adventures awaited them ...
First they met a garden scarecrow, which stood on a pole or simply on a stick.

(Music. The curtain opens. There is a scarecrow attached to a pole. Ellie and Totoshka come up to him.)

GARDEN SCARECROW: Hello!
Help me, please, get off the pole!

(Ellie and Toto help the Scarecrow off the pole.)

GARDEN SCARECROW: Thanks a lot!
My name is Scarecrow.

ELLIE: And I'm Ellie.

TOTOSHKA: I - av, av - Totoshka!

SCAREBOARD: Where are you going?

ELLIE: We go to the Emerald City to the Great Goodwin to ask him to grant our wish.

SCAREBOARD: What is your desire?

ELLIE: We want to ask him to send us home to Kansas!

SCAREBOARD: Great!
If only someone could make my wish come true!

ELLIE: And what is your desire?

SCAREBOARD: I want to have brains!
After all, my head is full of straw and I often say the wrong thing, but if I had brains, I would become very smart!

ELLIE: Come with us.
Great Goodwin can do anything and he will give you brains.

STORYTELLER: And the Scarecrow went along with the girl Ellie and Totoshka along the road paved with yellow bricks ...

(Music. Curtain closes)

SCENE 3.

STORYTELLER:… When the road turned into the forest, our travelers saw the Tin Woodman in the forest. He stood with his ax raised and did not move.

(The curtain opens. The Tin Woodman stands on the stage with a raised ax and does not move. Our travelers appear.)

WOODCUTTER: Help me please!
I've been caught in the rain and rusted and can't move.
Lubricate me, please, with oil.

ELLIE: Of course, we will help you now.

(Ellie oils the woodcutter, he starts to move.)

WOODCUTTER: Well, thank you. Now I can move.
Where are you going?

ELLIE: We go to the Great Goodwin so that he fulfills our cherished desires: he sent me and Totoshka home, and gave the Scarecrow brains.
Do you have a cherished desire?

WOODCUTTER: Yes, I really want to have a heart, real, not iron.

ELLIE: Then come with us. Great Goodwin can do anything, and he will give you a real heart.

STORYTELLER: And the Tin Woodman went to the place with them.
On the way they met a lion. (left jumps out)
He growled!

A LION: R-r-r-r-r!

(Toto jumped forward.)

TOTOSHKA: You are a coward to growl at those who are weaker than you!

A LION: (Lowered his head.)
Yes, I'm a coward... And I only growl because everyone will think that I'm brave.
This is my most cherished desire - to become brave!

ELLIE: Come with them!
We go to the Great Goodwin to fulfill our most cherished desires. And he will give you Courage!

STORYTELLER: And Leo went with them...

(Music. The curtain closes.)

STORYTELLER:…Now with Ellie were three creatures that had cherished desires. But, as we remember, in the magic book it was said that if Ellie helps the three creatures fulfill their most cherished desires, then the Great Goodwin will send her home.
So they went to the Great Goodwin. If only they could get to the Emerald City!

4 SCENE.

STORYTELLER: Our travelers met many obstacles on their way: they almost drowned in a mountain stream, on their way they met a saber-toothed tiger. But still they got to the Emerald City!
... At the main gate of the city they were met by a soldier.

(Music. The curtain opens. Our travelers and soldiers are on the stage.)

ELLIE: Hello mister soldier!
We would like to see the Great Goodwin.

SOLDIER: Goodwin - the Great and Terrible no one has ever seen!

ELLIE: Why has no one ever seen him, and why is he terrible?

SOLDIER: Because no one saw his face!
He always appears in different guises: either in the form of a fireball, then in the form of a huge head, then in the form of a disgusting monster, and if you are lucky, you can see him in the form of an ordinary person, although it is not known, in fact, this is real its appearance or not.

ELLIE: Mister soldier, please report to the great Goodwin that we ask him to receive us.

SOLDIER: Okay, I'll report back.
But if your business is not very important, then Great Goodwin will be very angry, and then you will not do well!

(Music. The curtain closes.)

5 SCENE.

STORYTELLER: And finally, our travelers were led to the Great Goodwin.

(Music. The curtain opens. We see a huge head on the stage. Our travelers appear.)

GOODWIN: I am Goodwin, the Great and Terrible!
Why did you come?
What do you want?

SCAREBOARD: I want you to give me brains so that I have smart thoughts!

WOODCUTTER: I want you to give me a heart, real, not iron!

A LION: I want you to give me courage so that I can become the real king of beasts!

ELLIE: And I ask you to send Totoshka and me home to Kansas!

GOODWIN: I will fulfill all your desires if you do what I command you!

ALL: What?

GOODWIN: You must defeat the evil sorceress Bastinda!

ELLIE: How can we do it?

GOODWIN: Think!
Otherwise, your desires will not be fulfilled!
Now go!

(Everyone exits. Music. The curtain closes.)

STORYTELLER: So the name Goodwin was justified - the Great and Terrible!
Great, because he can fulfill all their desires, and Terrible, because he requires the impossible from them. How can they: a little girl, a little dog, a lion who still does not have courage, a tin woodcutter and a straw man without brains, be able to defeat the evil sorceress?
But Ellie really wanted to get home, and her friends, of course, could not leave her alone, without help. Therefore, they decided to go together to the country of the evil sorceress Bastinda.

(Music.)

6 SCENE.

(Music. The curtain opens. The evil sorceress Bastinda is on stage. She holds her hand under the visor and looks somewhere into the distance.)

STORYTELLER: Here she is, the evil sorceress Bastinda!

BASTIND: So…
Who entered my domain there? (Looks.)
Little girl with a dog, some kind of scarecrow, iron Man and a lion!
Where is my magic hat?

(Bastinda puts on her hat, turns it around).

Bambara, chufara, eriki, loriki, moriki!
Come Flying Monkeys, attack these aliens and bring them here!
I'll deal with them here!

(Music. Bastinda continues to watch. The curtain closes.)

STORYTELLER: Flying monkeys flew in, grabbed friends and brought them to the Evil sorceress Bastinda.

7 SCENE.

STORYTELLER: Bastinda put the Lion, the Scarecrow, the Woodcutter, and Toto in an iron cage. And she did not dare to touch the girl Ellie, because. I saw silver shoes on her. She knew that they were magical, and that she, Bastinda, could not do anything to their owner.
Bastinda decided to take the shoes from the girl Ellie by cunning.

(Music. The curtain opens. Ellie and Bastinda are on stage. All the other travelers are in the cage. Bastinda approaches the cage.)

BASTIND: You, Leo, I will harness to my carriage and you will carry me around the city!

A LION: (growls) R-r-r-r-r! I will eat you!

BASTIND: Oh, damn you!
Then I will starve you to death, and you will still agree to take me in the carriage!

A LION: (growls) R-r-r-r-r! I will eat you!

BASTIND: Ah well? Well then, sit here! (turns to Ellie)
And you will work in the kitchen!

(Bastinda exits. Music. The curtain closes.)

8 SCENE.

STORYTELLER: So Ellie started working in the kitchen. At night, when the evil Bastinda went to bed, Ellie brought food to her friends who were sitting in an iron cage, and together they thought how they could defeat the evil sorceress Bastinda.

(Music. The curtain opens. Ellie and the Cook are on stage. They are preparing food.)

ELLIE: Is Bastinda really a powerful sorceress?

COOK: Yes. She's only afraid of one!

ELLIE: What?

COOK: She is afraid of water!
She never takes a shower, brushes her teeth and always walks with an umbrella!

(Bastinda enters, throws something at Ellie's feet. Ellie falls. One shoe slips off her. Bastinda grabs the shoe.)

BASTIND: Ha ha ha! And the second shoe will be mine!

ELLIE: Ah well?

(Takes a bucket of water and pours it on Bastinda.)

BASTIND: What have you done?
After all, water is my death!

(Music. Bastinda begins to melt, i.e. writhes and covers herself with clothes. From her, (as if) only clothes, a key and a golden hat remain. Ellie takes the key and opens the cage. Her friends leave the cage).

ALL: Hooray! ! !
The evil sorceress Bastinda is no more!

(Ellie puts on her shoe, takes up her hat, and turns to the Cook.)

ELLIE: Do you know what kind of hat it is?

COOK: This is a magical hat!
If you put it on your head, turn it and say: “Bambara, chufara, eriki, loriki, moriki! ”, then a flock of Flying Monkeys will fly in and take you wherever you wish.

(Ellie puts on the gold hat and turns it around.)

ELLIE: Bambara, chufara, eriki, loriki, moriki!
Flying Monkeys, take me and my friends to the Emerald City to the Great Goodwin!

ELLIE: Can you take me home to Kansas later?

MONKEY: No, we can only fly within the magical land!

ELLIE: It's a pity!
Well, then take us to the Great Goodwin!

(Music. The curtain closes.)

9 SCENE.

STORYTELLER: And here our travelers are again at the Great Goodwin. This time they saw him in human form.

(Music. The curtain opens. Our travelers are on stage. Goodwin appears in human form.)

GOODWIN: You have completed my mission!
And now I can fulfill your cherished desires!
Here's to you, Scarecrow, brains! (gives, for example, a bag.)

SCAREBOARD: Thanks Great Goodwin!
Now I will have smart thoughts!

GOODWIN: You Woodcutter, real, not iron heart! (gives)

WOODCUTTER: Thanks Great Goodwin!
Now I will feel everything like a man!

GOODWIN: And you Leo Courage, although you have defended your friends very bravely all the time! (gives).

A LION: Thanks Great Goodwin!
Now I can become the real king of beasts!

ELLIE: Will you send me and Totoshka home to Kansas now?

GOODWIN: Yes, girl!
It's very easy to do!
You're wearing silver shoes. They are magical. You just have to turn around, say: "one, two, three" - and they will take you where you want.

ELLIE: Why didn't you tell me this right away, but sent it to the evil sorceress Bastinda?

GOODWIN: Because I read in a magic book that a girl in silver shoes will be able to unravel the mystery of Bastinda, and rid our country of the evil sorceress.

ELLIE: Well then, goodbye, my friends!
Totoshka and I will always remember you!

ALL: Goodbye! (waving to them).
And we won't forget you!

(Ellie takes Toto by the paw, turns around.)

ELLIE: One two Three!
Silver shoes, take me home to Kansas to my parents!

(Music. The curtain closes.)

STORYTELLER: So the girl Ellie visited a magical land, met the Great Goodwin, helped her friends fulfill their most cherished desires, and freed the country from two evil sorceresses at once.

(Music.)

END OF THE PERFORMANCE.

Plot

Wizards

• Gingema (evil)
• Villina (kind)
• Bastinda (evil)
• Stella (kind)
• Goodwin (mysterious)

Other positive characters

• Prem Kokus
• fregosa

Other negative characters

• cannibal

Version difference

There are many editions of the tale, and their texts often do not match. The book has been revised many times by the author, and if the early versions are a translation of Baum's fairy tale with the replacement of some episodes, then in the later versions both the images of the characters and the explanations of events are significantly changed, which creates its own, noticeably different from Oz atmosphere of the Magic Land.

The three most famous versions and their main features are:

• Edition of the year - closest to Baum's text:
  • Ellie is an orphan living with her uncle and aunt;
  • sorceresses and secondary characters do not have names;
  • tiger bears live in the forest between ravines;
  • in the mountains north of the Pink Country live short, armless men with elongated necks.
• Edition of the year:
  • Ellie has parents;
  • sorceresses get familiar names;
  • tiger bears are replaced with saber-toothed tigers;
  • armless shorties are replaced by Jumpers - high-jumping little men, hitting the enemy with their heads and fists.
• Third version:
  • The Scarecrow at first speaks with many reservations, gradually moving to the correct speech;
  • before meeting with the Cannibal, Ellie takes off her shoes, thus losing her magical protection;
  • get the names of Fleet, Lestar, Warr;
  • The Leapers call themselves the Marrans;
  • The Tin Woodman does not say that he will bring his bride to the Purple Country;
  • removed all references to elephants in the territory of the Magic Land;
  • it is mentioned that the appointment of the Scarecrow as the ruler of the Emerald City caused discontent among some courtiers.

The latter differences seem to be designed to better connect the book with the sequels already written by this time. In addition to the major changes listed above, there are many minor textual differences between these editions, such as the replacement of individual words. We can say that the fairy tale was completely rewritten several times.

The book is included in the program for students of pedagogical universities academic discipline Children's literature .

Differences from the original

Plot discrepancies

Although you can retell the plot of The Wizard of Oz and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the same words if you wish, the differences between these books are numerous and go far beyond retelling in another language and replacing proper names, as it might seem from the first glance. Here is short list main differences:

• The main character's name is Ellie, not Dorothy, and she has parents (John and Anna Smith), while Dorothy Gale is an orphan living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
• Volkov's description of the Kansas life of a girl is less gloomy than Baum's.
• The hurricane that brought Ellie to the Magic Land is caused by the evil sorceress Gingem, who wants to destroy the world (for Baum, this hurricane is a common natural disaster).
• Toto, once in the Magic Land, begins to talk like a human, like all the animals of the country. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he remains speechless, and only in one of the continuations of the tale does Baum explain and correct this discrepancy.
• Totoshka at Volkov's wants to deal with the neighbor's dog Hector.
• The orientation of the parts of the Magic Land to the cardinal points is a mirror image of Oz: if Baum has the Blue Land, where Dorothy begins her journey, is in the east, then Volkov has it in the west.
• Names of countries have been changed by color: Baum's Yellow Country corresponds to Volkov's Purple Country, and vice versa. The arrangement of countries by Volkov is generally less logical, the pattern according to which the intermediate color of the spectrum - green - is between the extreme ones, is lost.
• In The Wizard of Oz, the witches are not named, with the exception of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. Volkov's name for the good sorceress of the Pink Country is Stella, while the sorceresses of the North, East, and West receive the names of Willina, Gingham, and Bastinda, respectively.
• Baum's Oz is both the name of the country and the name of the wizard. Volkov does not use this name at all, the wizard is called Goodwin, and the country is called Fairy (sometimes Goodwin's country).
• Ellie receives a prediction about three cherished wishes that must be fulfilled so that she can return to Kansas.
• According to Baum, the crow that advised the Scarecrow to get brains taught the rest of the birds not to be afraid of him. Volkov does not directly mention this. The crow itself is described by Volkov as “big disheveled”, by Baum it is “old”.
• The woodcutter in Volkov's books (and - by tradition - in most subsequent Russian translations of the Oz tales) is made of iron. In the original it is tin.
• Between meeting the Woodcutter and meeting the Cowardly Lion, Volkov inserts an additional chapter in which, while the Scarecrow and the Woodcutter argue about the advantages of brains and hearts, Ellie is kidnapped by the Ogre. The Scarecrow and the Woodcutter manage to free the girl and kill the Cannibal.
• According to Baum, not Saber-toothed tigers live in the forest between the ravines, but Kalidas - creatures with the body of a bear and the head of a tiger.
• Volkov is told the name of the queen of field mice (Ramina) and it is clearly indicated that when parting, she left Ellie a silver whistle with which she could be summoned. In Baum, the mouse queen simply says that Dorothy can call her at any time when she goes out into the field, although later Dorothy calls the mouse queen with a whistle, which did not appear in the story before.
• In Baum, the guard guarding the wizard's palace immediately lets travelers through, he is simply called "a soldier with green sideburns", Volkov gives him a name - Din Gior and introduces a scene with combing his beard.
• Goodwin, sending Ellie and her friends to the Purple Land, orders them to depower Bastinda, no matter how. Oz explicitly orders Dorothy to kill the evil sorceress.
• The scenes in the throne room are described slightly differently, as are the scenes in which the evil sorceress sends her animals against Ellie and her companions. The words of the spell that summons the Flying Monkeys are also changed - like all the spells in Volkov's books, they are more melodic and do not require strange accompanying gestures, such as standing on one leg, as Baum did.
• The Flying Monkeys do not harm Ellie for fear of the silver slippers. According to Baum, the girl is protected by the kiss of the good sorceress of the North, which Volkov does not mention at all. Added a conversation where Bastinda, in particular, tells Ellie that Gingema was her sister.
• Ellie's stay in captivity at Bastinda is described in much more detail, the image of the cook Fregosa appears, the motive for preparing an uprising against Bastinda is added.
• Although Ellie did not assume that water was deadly for Bastinda, she was aware of her fear of water. Sometimes Ellie even used water spilled on the floor to get rid of the sorceress for a while.
• In order to take away the silver slipper from Baum, the sorceress used a rod, which she made invisible. At Volkov's, Bastinda lost all magical tools and took advantage of the outstretched rope.
• Bastinda, when Ellie pours water on her, explains that she has not washed her face in centuries because she received a prediction of death from water. In Baum, the Witch of the West simply states that the water will kill her, and then informs Dorothy that she remains the mistress of the castle, and admits that she was very evil in life.
• Volkov's history of the Flying Monkeys is described in much less detail than Baum's.
• At Volkov's, Totoshka discovers Goodwin hiding behind a screen by smell. According to Baum, Toto unmasks the wizard by accident when he jumps to the side, frightened by the Lion's roar. There are many minor differences in the subsequent scenes, up until the fake wizard takes off in a balloon.
• Goodwin, like Ellie, is from Kansas. Oz is from Omaha, near Kansas. Goodwin, before becoming an aeronaut, was an actor, playing kings and heroes, while Oz was a ventriloquist.
• According to Baum, the path to the good sorceress of the south passes through a forest with warring trees and Chinaland. In Volkov, these countries are completely absent, but a chapter with a flood has been added.
• Volkov's final obstacle to the Roseland is not the Hammerheads. Hammer Heads), they are also armless short men who shoot with their heads, and Jumpers (Marrans).
• Back in Kansas, Ellie meets Goodwin in a nearby town. Baum does not have this episode.

Differences in the emotional and semantic dominant

Comparison of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Wizard of the Emerald City" showed significant differences between these works in terms of emotional and semantic dominant. While the original text can be considered neutral or polydominant (with elements of "beautiful" and "cheerful" text), Volkov's arrangement is a "dark" text. This is manifested in the references to Baum's missing shifts. emotional states, vocabulary with the semes "fear", "laughter", detailing of descriptions (with an excessive transfer of the size of objects and external characteristics of characters), more vocabulary with the component "sound", onomatopoeia. Water is a very frequent semantic component: rain and the flood of the river are the main events of the chapter "Flood" added by Volkov, ponds, fountains, a moat with water are found in the description of Goodwin's palace - details that are not in the original, the mention of the stream also appears when describing the ravine, crossing the road. Another feature of Volkov's text is frequent exclamatory sentences, especially in passages that were not in the original.

Translations

Despite the fact that the book itself is a translation, it has been translated into many languages, including English and German, and published in almost all former socialist countries.

The first German edition of the Wizard was published in the GDR and the FRG in the mid-1960s. For 40 years, the book has gone through 10 editions; even after the reunification of Germany, when East Germans became available original books Baum, translations of Volkov's books continue to be consistently sold out. Some changes were made to the text of the 11th edition, which was published in, and subsequent ones, and the book also received a new design.

In Germany, two radio plays based on the book were staged:

• , Director: Dieter Scharfenberg, LITERA junior 1991, MC.
• Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt, Director: Paul Hartmann, Deutsche Grammophon - Junior 1994, MC.

In May, an audio version of the book was released on two . The text was read by the famous actress and director Katharina Thalbach:

• Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt, Jumbo Neue Medien, 2CD, ISBN 3-8337-1533-2

Screen adaptations and productions

see also

• The Wizard of the Emerald City - (Japanese adaptation of Baum's fairy tale of the year.)
• Adventures in the Emerald City (cartoon, Russia)