The Songs of Father Goose
Author’s Note
The success achieved last year by “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”—a book that not only ran through many large editions, but brought the author hundreds of letters from interested little folks—has induced me to follow that tale with another, herein presented.
Should “Dot and Tot of Merryland” win the approval of my young friends, I shall be pleased and contented.
In any event Mr. Denslow’s quaint and merry pictures, which, in this book excel all his previous work, will be sure to induce happiness in the heart of every beholder.
L. FRANK BAUM.
Chicago, July 1, 1901.
DEDICATION.
To ev’ry laughter-loving Tot—
Whether your name be Dot or not;
And may you find a Merryland
Forever lying close at hand.