L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker - Reprints

Reprints

Materials from the Juvenile Speaker were republished in different volumes in later years. In 1916 and 1917, Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton issued stories from the anthology in six smaller 62-page books collectively called The Snuggle Tales, with black-and-white Neill illustrations. (They were originally sold for $0.40 each.) The publisher had used this approach successfully in the Little Wizard Stories of Oz in 1913–14, as a way of reaching beginning readers. The six Snuggle Tales books are:

• Little Bun Rabbit and Other Stories (1916)
• Once Upon a Time and Other Stories (1916)
• The Yellow Hen and Other Stories (1916)
• The Magic Cloak and Other Stories (1916)
• The Gingerbread Man (1917)
• Jack Pumpkinhead (1917).

In turn, The Snuggle Tales were later republished with added color plates as the Oz-Man Tales, issued in 1920.

To illustrate the type of materials involved, consider the contents of the fourth Snuggle Tales volume, The Magic Cloak and Other Stories:

• "The Weaving of the Magic Cloak" — from Queen Zixi of Ix
• "When the Whistle Blows" (poem)
• "In Chinaland" — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• "The Greedy Goldfish" (poem) — from Father Goose, His Book
• "Santa Claus's First Journey" — from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• "The Head of the King" — from The Magical Monarch of Mo
• "The Tramp" (poem) — from By the Candelabra's Glare
• "The Mantle of Immortality" — from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• "The King of Thieves" — from The Enchanted Island of Yew
• "Melting a Wicked Witch" — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• "Miss Violin's Beau" (a punning poem)
• "The Beautiful Valley of Mo" — from The Magical Monarch of Mo.