"Denslow's Three Bears  ,   W.W. Denslow,   G.W. Dillingham,   New York, 1903    Denslow's Three Bears , 1903, W.W. Denslow, the original illustrator of L. Frank Baum's  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  (1900), adapted and drew the pictures for this retelling of the familiar story, published in New York by G.W. Dillingham as one of  Denslow's Picture Books for Children . The back cover claims that in this series of picture books Denslow has ""improved these stories by elimination of all coarseness, cruelty, and everything that might frighten children."" In Denslow's version, in the bears'' absence Golden Hair tidies up their ""most disorderly"" house, and eventually the bears move in with Golden Hair and her grandmother: ""they all decided to live together for the general good."""
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