Not least by making her, in the illustrations ... Actually, Baum didn't seem much interested in The Wicked Witch of the West. "She only appears in one chapter," Shanower said.

In Baum's novel, the most famous witch is the Wicked Witch of the West, and the one who tries to get Dorothy out of the Land of Oz. The story also has other Wicked Witches from other sides of the ...