FANTASY

5 FACTS ABOUT FANTASY GENRE

• Almost anything can happen in a fantasy story
• Characters can be magical
• There could be animals that don't exists
• Animals can talk in these stories
• You could read about a martians on Mars

L. FRANK BAUM

1. L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz
2. He was born on May 15, 1856
3. He was from Chittenango, NY
4. He also wrote other books like The Sea Fairies
5. Baum mostly wrote children's books
6. When he was 12 he went to military school
7. He left the school 2 years later because of health
8. He never had a high school degree
9. He had surgery and spent the last year of his life in a bed
10. He died on May 6th 1919