The coveted and award-winning Penguin Threads series continues with three more enchanting
beautifully sewn covers by a talented visual artist With paper and pen or needle and thread
storytelling has many traditions. Penguin's award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents
Penguin Threads a series of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions inspired by the aesthetic of
handmade crafts with specially commissioned cover art. Jillian Tamaki's embroidered artwork
appears on The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Emma by Jane Austen and Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell. This latest set features three beloved classics for both adults and children
with cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell Sumpter. Sketched in a traditional
illustrative manner the final covers are sculpt embossed and present full front and reverse
hand-stitched designs. Through story style and texture the Penguin Threads is an exciting
chapter in Penguin's long history of excellence in book design for true lovers of the book
design and handcrafted beauty. This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen
Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal
following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy who arrives from Kansas and meets the
Scarecrow the Tin Woodman the Cowardly Lion and a host of other characters. The Emerald City
of Oz (1910) finds Dorothy Aunt Em and Uncle Henry coming to Oz just as the wicked Nome King
is plotting to conquer its people. In Baum's final novel Glinda of Oz (1920) Dorothy and
Princess Ozma try to prevent a battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. Tapping into a
deeply rooted desire in himself and his loyal readers to live in a peaceful country which
values the sharing of talents and gifts Baum's imaginative creation like all great utopian
literature holds out the possibility for change. Also included is a selection of the original
illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill. For more than seventy years Penguin has been
the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700
titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and
across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced
by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
