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Gone with the Northeast Wind

The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading

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The Best of Inventions

If you’ve read the Oz books, you might remember Smith and Tinker as the creators of Tik-Tok, as well as the Giant with the Hammer and, as per Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the Hundred-Year Alarm Clock. I’ve written about them before … Continue reading

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Invisible Touch

L. Frank Baum originally wanted The Emerald City of Oz to be his last Oz book, and to that end had Glinda cast a spell that made the whole land “invisible to all eyes but our own.” In explaining it … Continue reading

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