![]() ![]() Reading with her father offered a comforting continuity in the midst of her mother's disquieting move away from the family, her older sister's absence as a foreign exchange student, and the parsimoniousness of her single father. At first they decided on 100 nights straight of reading before bed-a minimum 10 minutes, before midnight, every night, no exceptions-then it stretched to 1,000, and soon enough the author was headed to college and they had spent eight years straight reading before bedtime, from Oz stories to Shakespeare. Father and daughter embarked on a streak of reading-out-loud sessions every night before bed as Ozma was growing up. Frank Baum), the author is the daughter of a Philadelphia-area elementary school librarian. ![]() Named for two literary characters ("Alice" from Lewis Carroll and "Ozma" from L. ![]()
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