L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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In the middle of publishing his wildly successful Land of Oz series, Baum wrote John Dough and the Cherub, a novel about a human-like gingerbread man and his adventures. Although John Dough the gingerbread man was the focal point of the text, many critics were interested by Chick the Cherub, the small, androgynous child that fo.