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Category Archives: Oz Authors
Hiding in Plane Sight
While Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz sets the stage for a sequel with the Wizard and Tin Woodman trying to retrieve the lost Ozpril, such a book was never published. As indicated in Michael Patrick Hearn’s afterword, Ruth Plumly … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged breakfast the bananny goat, giraffes, goats, j. l. bell, michael patrick hearn, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, ozpril, pirates in oz, rinkitink in oz, snowmen, stratovania, the lost king of oz, the wonder city of oz, tin woodman, wizard of oz, yankee in oz
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Leaving on an Ozoplane
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I can’t remember for sure why I wanted to give this one a reread, but it had been a while since I’d looked at it. It’s the last Oz … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Technology
Tagged betsy bobbin, bustabo, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, guardian of the gates, international wizard of oz club, jellia jamb, martin gardner, omby amby, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, queen kabebe, red top mountain, scarecrow, science fiction, speedy in oz, stratosphere, stratovania, strut of the strat, the marvelous land of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, toto, trot griffiths, wizard of oz
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The Offbeat Officials of Oz
The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier
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Balancing the Flutterbudget
I received my copy of the 2020 Oziana, the annual collection of original fiction published by the International Wizard of Oz Club, but I waited until it was available for purchase before writing my review. It’s actually the fiftieth anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged able tong, boy fortune hunters, cap'n bill, death, dennis anfuso, dinner at the del, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city, evangeline, fairies, flutterbudgets, grand gheewizard, hotel del coronado, international wizard of oz club, joe bongiorno, mitchell mayle, ojo, oziana, oziana 2020, patchwork girl, polychrome, polychrome's sky school, quiberon, robert baum, sam milazzo, suren oganessian, the giant horse of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, zinnia's wish
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You Want Some Mo?
I’ve already written about elections and politics in Oz, so even though it’s Election Day here in the States, I’m going to write about a firmly entrenched royal family who never have to run for reelection, that of the Land of … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Characters, Families, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships
Tagged cows, dragons, duchess bredenbutta, giants, gigaboo, hartilaf, history of prince zingle, king of mo, land of mo, maetta, monkeys, prince fiddlecumdoo, prince jollikin, prince the dog, prince thinkabit, prince zingle of mo, princess pattycake, princess truella of mo, purple dragon, queen of mo, storks, the magical monarch of mo, the royal explorers of oz, the strange adventures of the king's head, timtom, wizard of mo
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I’d Turn Back If I Were You
There was a second Virtual OzCon yesterday, this one with a Halloween theme, which means it addressed some of the potentially darker aspects of the series. There are some SPOILERS in here for several Oz books and the film Return … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Dreams, Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Halloween, Holidays, Hugh Pendexter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television
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Falling for the Fairy Fellowship
I’ve mentioned the fairyland on the other side of the world from Oz a few times, but since I’m planning on writing some fiction that takes place there, I might as well detail what we know about it. It first … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Characters, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Politics
Tagged ak, aristotle, astrology, constellations, dinosaurs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city mirror, empyrean plane, fairies, flora, forbidden tube, four guardians, gilbert sprague, great gulf, great jinjin, green dragon of atlantis, hiergargo, immortal longings of oz, immortals, jinxland, king of animals, king of forests, kirin, lurline, monokeros, moon, original dragon, paul dana, phoenix, plato, queen erma, skanderbeg, sublunar realm, the gardener's boy of oz, the law of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, tortoises, tubekins, unicorns, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz
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Where the Worlds Have No Name
One night last week, I had a fitful sleep with a bunch of weird dreams. I remember one of them had me ranting about how J.R.R. Tolkien was never clear on whether Middle-Earth was his entire imaginary world or just … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Maps, March Laumer, Mario, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged alefgard, Arda, calormen, continent of imagination, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, gaia, galaxies, hyrule, jupiter, mars, middle-earth, midgard, moon, mushroom world, narnia, nonestic ocean, planets, professor wogglebug, saturn, sun, super mario bros. 3, the royal book of oz, world tree, yggdrasil
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Why Won’t You Die?
It would become a thing in the Oz books that no one in that fairyland could die, but it wasn’t immediate. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz mentions the threat of death quite often, in fact. The first book to establish … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Characters, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged capital punishment, combinoceros, death, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, dragons, eureka the pink kitten, gigaboo, glegg, glinda of oz, immortality, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kaliko, lions, lurline, nomes, ojo in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, prince fiddlecumdoo, prince jollikin, private jo files, purple dragon, realbad, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, snoctorotomus, snufferbux, tazzywaller, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant garden of oz, the good witch of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master crafters of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches
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Magical Art Imitates Life
Recently, fellow Oz fan Kevenn Smith raised an interesting question on Facebook about how the magically animated beings in the series function the way they do. “For instance, the Sawhorse doesn’t really sound like he has knees. How does he … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged blue bear rug, bungle the glass cat, davy jones the wooden whale, gargoyles, gump, jack pumpkinhead, kevenn smith, nome king, patchwork girl, popla, powder of life, sawhorse, scarecrow, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, victor columbia edison
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