My readers have told me what to do with Dorothy, and Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, and I have obeyed their mandates. There will be no lack of fairy-tale authors in the future, I am sure. My, what imaginations these children have developed! Sometimes I am fairly astounded by their daring and genius. So I have used them whenever I could find an opportunity, and it is but just that I acknowledge my indebtedness to my little friends. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host of youngsters whose ideas I am requestsed to weave into the thread of my stories.
Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L.
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