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.
Read more about this topic: L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker