"It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors." The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle… - L. Frank Baum

"It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."
The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.

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About L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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Birth Name: Lyman Frank Baum
Alternative Names: Captain Hugh Fitzgerald Suzanne Metcalf Schuyler Staunton Edith Van Dyne George Brooks Louis F. Baum Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald Pete Dugout Floyd Akers Laura Bancroft John Estes Cooke
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Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

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