Dot and Tot of Merryland

Freshly uploaded onto Gutenberg.org for your reading pleasure, Dot and Tot of Merryland is another fantastical story by L. Frank Baum.

Illustrating for this public domain book in a similar fashion as the Wizard of Oz books, W. W. Denslow brings little Dot and Tot to life in oranges and yellows.

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The story is about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that flowed through a tunnel. The land was called Merryland and was split into seven valleys.

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Dedication from the front of the book:

To ev’ry laughter-loving Tot—
Whether your name be Dot or not;
And may you find a Merryland
Forever lying close at hand.

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