An Apple Books Classic edition.

This enchanting novel in L. Frank Baum’s beloved Oz series is a masterful piece of story-within-a-story magic. The Tin Woodman is chatting with the Scarecrow and a Munchkin boy when he reveals just how he turned from a flesh-and-blood human into the metal man he is today—and how his transformation tragically took him away from his true love, Nimmie Amee.

Setting out to find Nimmie again, the gang encounter another tin man who suffered the exact same fate. But the tinsmith who long ago constructed both of their shiny new bodies resolves their story in a surprising and strangely touching way. Weaving tragedy, humor, and redemption, The Tin Woodman of Oz gives Baum’s most wistful hero a story as emotional as it is inventive.