This is L. Frank Baum’s fairy tale book where Dorothy and Toto end up in Munchkinland, a county in the Land of Oz.

Did you know that the original slippers were silver and designed by Salvatore Ferragamo? The slippers were changed to the ruby color for the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, because Technicolor was the biggest thing going then, and the color ruby would photograph much better for the film.

The last pair of ruby slippers auctioned in 2000 brought a hefty $666,000.00!