Five stars (and my third time writing about it on my blog):
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and John R. Neill (1904) is the second book in the Oz series. It was the start of a new long term relationship with a new publisher and a new illustrator, an illustrator who went on to illustrate and even write some Oz books after Baum's death. With so much at stake, it was also an opportunity to fine tune the Land of Oz, so it strikes me as no surprise that Baum chose to focus his second book entirely within the fantasy realm, leaving Dorothy at home in Kansas.