 For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.The nine stories in the collection were printed in consecutive monthly issues of "The Delineator" (a popular women's magazine of the time) from January to September 1905.The tales were part of the magazine's regular feature, "Stories and Pastimes for Children", and primarily illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull; "The Delineator" published Baum's story "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" in December 1904 with illustrations by Frederick Richardson, who had begun illustrating Baum's serialized novel "Queen Zixi of Ix" the previous month in "St. Nicholas".