The Wonderful Wizard of Oz   is a     written by author     and illustrated by   .   It is the first novel in the   . A     farm girl named     ends up in the magical     after she and her pet dog     are swept away from their home by a   .Upon her arrival in Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the   .
The book was first published in the United States in May 1900 by the   .In January 1901, the publishing company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out.It had sold three million copies by the time it entered the     in 1956. It was often reprinted under the title   The Wizard of Oz , which is the title of the successful     as well as the classic   .