Category Archives: Phyllis Ann Karr

Ask the Flowers to Tell You

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Nathan

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and Tuesdays are my designated days for writing about Oz, although it doesn’t always work out that way. Since I had something more pressing to write about yesterday, I’m going to look at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ray Powell, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, burzee, chloris, fairies, favonius, flora, floralia, flower fairies, flowers, grampa in oz, immortals, karpos, king of the ryls, knooks, nelebel's fairyland, nymphs, ozga, prince marvel, prince of the ryls, rose kingdom, ryls, santa claus, tanko-mankie, the dummy that lived, the enchanted island of yew, the enchanted types, the gardener's boy of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the raggedys in oz, the road to oz, the ryl, the ryl of the lilies, the vegetable man of oz, the yellow ryl, tik-tok of oz, urtha, zephyrus | 3 Comments

I Can Read Your Mind from Half a Mile

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Nathan

To continue on the topic I brought up last week about Ozian magic that affects minds, it’s worth noting that, in The Emerald City of Oz, the Wizard claims to be “working out a magic recipe to fuddle men’s brains, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bitty bit, dorothy of oz, henry blossom, invisible barrier, jester, mentalism, mind reader, mombi, mrs. yoop, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pigasus, roger baum, the blue emperor of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, wizard of oz, yankee in oz | Leave a comment

Magical Law Enforcement

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Nathan

As per The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Ozma has banned the practice of magic for everyone in the Land of Oz aside from Glinda and her student, the Wizard of Oz. It’s interesting that this doesn’t include the Good Witch … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged dorothy gale, dr. pipt, faleero, fanny the weather witch, glinda, glinda of oz, gloma, good witch of the north, herku, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mooj, mrs. yoop, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, pumperdink, reera the red, royal timeline of oz, spiders, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the law of oz, the living house of oz, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, witches, wizard of oz, wumbo, yookoohoos | 2 Comments

When the Volcano Blow

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Nathan

I wrote last week about Dorothy’s tornado and other natural disasters that opened the way to Oz or the surrounding fairylands, and this time I’m going to look at ones within fairyland itself. We don’t really hear of many bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin of oz, blazes, captain salt in oz, cork mountain, davy jones, ev, geysers, grampa in oz, greg hunter, land of mo, lucky bucky in oz, maybe the miffin, natural disasters, nonestic ocean, ripple lands, rolling country, soap hollow, storms, subterranea, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tornadoes, torpedo town, trade winds, uptown, volcanoes, weather, whirligig winds, winds, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Sizing Up and Down

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Nathan

Characters changing in size is a pretty frequent occurrence in the Oz books. It’s sort of a transformation, but not entirely, as someone exposed to such magic keeps the same shape. At least, that seems to be the case for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged baffleburg, big wigs, blinkie, bucketheads in oz, bunnybury, doorways, dwindlebury, ev, frogman, giants, glegg, glinda, growing, jack breton, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo in oz, larry breton, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, loxo the lucky, magic muffins, mombi, nome king, ozma, peg amy, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, polychrome, professor nowitall, professor wogglebug, rabbits, red jinn, red rogue, reddies, shrinking, skosh, snif the iffin, speedy in oz, terp the terrible, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the final fate of the frogman, the gardener's boy of oz, the giant garden of oz, the good witch of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tippetarius in oz, waddy, wag, witches, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf | 2 Comments

Mountains of Mystery

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Nathan

Even though John Dough and the Cherub clearly indicates that Hiland and Loland are on an island, called Hi-Lo by some and Lo-Hi by others, the map in the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers shows them as part of the mainland, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, hiland, ivalane valley, ivalor, jack breton, james e. haff, john burton hatcher, john dough and the cherub, john drury clark, larry breton, loland, meerth, nimenvell, ozma of oz, skeezik and the mys-tree of oz, terra obscura, the baum bugle, the gardener's boy of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the ork in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the search for soob, thorns and private files in oz, witches, zectorland | 2 Comments

Mangaboos and More

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Nathan

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz isn’t one of my favorite Oz books, perhaps because the Emerald City seems less welcoming than usual. And after a journey as dark as the one in the rest of the book, where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged andrew heller, boboland, braided man, celebrating ozma the silver jubilee issue, dama fruit, dorothy and the wizard in oz, gargoyles, jay delkin, land of naught, mangaboos, melody grandy, mermaids, nome king, nomes, oziana, pyramid mountain, rachel heller, ruggedo in oz, scott dickerson, sherwood smith, subterranea, the disenchanted princess of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the giant horse of oz, the mysterious palace of voe, the seven blue mountains of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, tizzland, trouble under oz, valley of voe, vegetable kingdom, wizard of oz, xenia joy, zim greenleaf | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Phyllis Ann Karr

Ask the Flowers to Tell You

I Can Read Your Mind from Half a Mile

Magical Law Enforcement

When the Volcano Blow

Sizing Up and Down

Mountains of Mystery

Mangaboos and More

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