The Woggle-Bug Book by L. Frank Baum : ILLUSTRATED

The Woggle-Bug Book by L. Frank Baum : ILLUSTRATED

Is a 1905 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, creator of the Land of Oz, and illustrated by Ike Morgan. Baum's Woggle-Bug was a popular character at the time; he "became something of a national fad and icon...."[There were Woggle-Bug postcards and buttons, a Woggle-Bug song, and a Woggle-Bug board game from Parker Brothers.[Baum and Morgan's picture book was published in January 1905, to help publicize a new musical play, The Woggle-Bug , that was being mounted that year. (The play flopped.) The book was copiously illustrated, with pictures and text alternating on recto and verso pages; it was printed in bright colors in a large format, eleven by fifteen inches. The Woggle-Bug Book features the broad ethnic humor that was accepted and popular in its era, and which Baum employed in various works. The Woggle-Bug, who favors flashy clothes with bright colors (he dresses in "gorgeous reds and yellows and blues and greens" and carries a pink handkerchief), falls in love with a gaudy "Wagnerian plaid" dress that he sees on a mannequin in a department store window.Being a woggle bug, he has trouble differentiating between the dress and its wearers, wax or human.