Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Flying Girl | 1911 | L. Frank Baum | Buy |
| 2 | The Flying Girl and Her Chum | 1911 | L. Frank Baum | Buy |
Published in 1911, The Flying Girl and its sequel The Flying Girl and Her Chum were written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name Edith Van Dyne. The books follow a young woman caught up in the excitement of early aviation, a topic that captivated the public imagination in the years after the Wright Brothers’ flights. Baum set the stories in Southern California, drawing on the region’s growing aviation community.
While Baum is remembered almost entirely for his Oz books today, he was a prolific writer who produced dozens of novels and stories across multiple genres. The Flying Girl books are curiosities from that wider catalog, offering a glimpse at how early 20th-century popular fiction handled the new technology of flight. They are short, brisk reads that reflect the optimism of their era.