Random House is a major American trade publisher that has issued Oz-related materials.
As early as 1950, Random House released an edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for young readers between the ages of 5- 9. The company has published various other editions of Baum's original works, such as a movie tie-in volume of Return to Oz (film) and the first Pop-Up Wizard of Oz.
The firm published David L. Greene and Dick Martin's The Oz Scrapbook (1977) along with Jay Scarfone and William Stillman's The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 MGM Classic (1999).
It also issued a number of new novels by contemporary writers branded as "Brand New Oz Adventures" including:
- Dorothy and the Magic Belt, Susan Saunders (1985)
- Dorothy and the Seven-Leaf Clover, Dorothy Haas (1985)
- Mister Tinker in Oz, James Howe (1985)
- Ozma and the Wayward Wand, Polly Berends (1985)
- Dorothy and Old King Crow, Dorothy Haas (1986)
The first four books on this list were illustrated by David Rose. In relation to copyright, this series was limited to only using the first few books of Baum's material mostly with a basis of taking place after Ozma of Oz which only became public domain in 1983. With this, Dorothy is still living in Kansas but is whisked away by Ozma who uses the Magic Belt.
Del Rey Books, the publisher of the modern paperback editions of Ruth Plumly Thompson's Oz books, is a division of Random House.
Random House is now a subsidiary of the German media corporation Bertelsmann AG.