Editing Ruby slippers (section)

==Books==
''The Ruby Slippers of Oz'' (Tale Weaver Publishing, 1989) by Rhys Thomas is a history of the famous shoes and Kent Warner's part in it.

In "At The Auction of the Ruby Slippers", a short story in Salman Rushdie's 1994 anthology ''East, West'', various members of a destitute world attend an auction to bid for the ruby slippers of Dorothy Gale in ''The Wizard of Oz'', in the hope their transformative powers will help them achieve personal and political ends.

According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in [[Gregory Maguire]]'s 1995 novel ''[[Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West]]'', the slippers were given to [[Nessarose]], the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father. They were constructed with handmade glass beads and reflected many different colors in the lighting, giving them an almost chameleon effect. After being enchanted by Elphaba's old best friend and roommate, Glinda (the Good Witch of the North), they become items of power that allow the armless and handicapped Nessarose to magically stand and walk independently without any additional support. In the musical adaptation ''[[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]]'', it is [[Elphaba]], the Wicked Witch of the West, who enchants the shoes, giving crippled Nessarose the ability to walk without a wheelchair.