The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum — Read

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The grounds around Nick Chopper's new house were laid out in pretty flower-beds, with fountains of crystal water and statues of tin representing the Emperor's personal friends. Dorothy was astonished and delighted to find a tin statue of herself standing on a tin pedestal at a bend in the avenue leading up to the entrance. It was life-size and showed her in her sunbonnet with her basket on her arm, just as she had first appeared in the Land of Oz.

"Oh, Toto -- you're there too! " she exclaimed; and sure enough there was the tin figure of Toto lying at the tin Dorothy's feet.

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