Gita Dorothy Morena is a great-granddaughter of L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, through his son Kenneth Gage Baum and granddaughter Ozma Baum Mantele. Gita Morena provided the illustrations for her grandfather's book The Dinamonster of Oz (1991), and wrote The Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist (1998). An expanded edition of Morena's The Wisdom of Oz was published in 2001.