【序言】

民間傳奇和神話故事伴隨著孩子們走過童年，每個健康的孩子，相信都對神奇有趣又虛幻的故事愛不釋手。就像格林童話和安徒生童話，帶給孩子的心靈許多歡笑，絕非其他作品可比。

然而，在兒童的圖書館中，代代相傳的老式童話已經被分類成「老故事」了，現在的「奇幻故事」已不再需要刻板印象中的精靈、侏儒和仙女。而且，以往的童話作者為了在童話中達到教化目的，所設計的血腥駭人故事，現在也已經不適用了。因為現代教育已經納入道德倫理，兒童想從神奇的童話故事中得到的是趣味，而不樂見令人感到不適的情節。

有了這樣的想法，我寫了《綠野仙蹤》這本書來取悅現代的兒童。我想讓這本書成為一種現代童話，讓孩子們能在這本書中獲得趣味與喜悅，不會感到憂傷或留下夢魘。

法蘭克．巴姆

一九○○年四月於芝加哥

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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.

──L. Frank Baum (Chicago, April, 1900)

【序言】

民間傳奇和神話故事伴隨著孩子們走過童年，每個健康的孩子，相信都對神奇有趣又虛幻的故事愛不釋手。就像格林童話和安徒生童話，帶給孩子的心靈許多歡笑，絕非其他作品可比。

然而，在兒童的圖書館中，代代相傳的老式童話已經被分類成「老故事」了，現在的「奇幻故事」已不再需要刻板印象中的精靈、侏儒和仙女。而且，以往的童話作者為了在童話中達到教化目的，所設計的血腥駭人故事，現在也已經不適用了。因為現代教育已經納入道德倫理，兒童想從神奇的童話故事中得到的是趣味，而不樂見令人感到不適的情節。

有了這樣的想法...

【英文版目錄】
Chapter 1 The Cyclone
Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchkins
Chapter 3 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
Chapter 4 The Road Through the Forest
Chapter 5 The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
Chapter 6 The Cowardly Lion
Chapter 7 The Journey to the Great Oz
Chapter 8 The Deadly Poppy Field
Chapter 9 The Queen of the Field Mice
Chapter 10 The Guardian of the Gate
Chapter 11 The Wonderful City of Oz
Chapter 12 The Search for the Wicked Witch
Chapter 13 The Rescue
Chapter 14 The Winged Monkeys
Chapter 15 The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible
Chapter 16 The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Chapter 17 How the Balloon Was Launched
Chapter 18 Away to the South
Chapter 19 Attacked by the Fighting Trees
Chapter 20 The Dainty China Country
Chapter 21 The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
Chapter 22 The Country of the Quadlings
Chapter 23 Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish
Chapter 24 Home Again

【中文版目錄】
Chapter 1 龍捲風
Chapter 2 遇見芒奇金的居民
Chapter 3 救出稻草人
Chapter 4 穿越森林的路
Chapter 5 拯救鐵錫樵夫
Chapter 6 膽小的獅子
Chapter 7 驚險的旅程
Chapter 8 致命的罌粟花田
Chapter 9 田鼠皇后
Chapter 10 大門守衛
Chapter 11 奧玆的翡翠城
Chapter 12 尋找邪惡女巫
Chapter 13 救援
Chapter 14 飛猴
Chapter 15 露出馬腳
Chapter 16 大騙子的魔法
Chapter 17 熱氣球怎麼起飛的
Chapter 18 前往南方
Chapter 19 樹林警察
Chapter 20 精緻的瓷器國
Chapter 21 獅子成為萬獸之王
Chapter 22 垮德林人的國度
Chapter 23 善良女巫葛琳達實現女孩的願望
Chapter 24 重返家園

【英文版目錄】
Chapter 1 The Cyclone
Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchkins
Chapter 3 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
Chapter 4 The Road Through the Forest
Chapter 5 The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
Chapter 6 The Cowardly Lion
Chapter 7 The Journey to the Great Oz
Chapter 8 The Deadly Poppy Field
Chapter 9 The Queen of the Field Mice
Chapter 10 The Guardian of the Gate
Chapter 11 The Wonderful City of Oz
Chapter 12 The Search for the Wicked Witch
Chapter 13 The Rescue
Chapter 14 The...