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It Payes to Have Personality

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Nathan

Hiya, kiddos! I’ve done some more rereading recently, so today I’ll be going over the Oz work of Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the fifth official Royal Historian of Oz. The Hidden Valley of Oz – The next-to-last in what I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged adventures in oz, betsy bobbin, bookville, collapsible kite, cowardly lion, dirk gringhuis, dorothy gale, equinots, flicker, flowers, giants, guardian of the muffin tree, guinea pigs, henry blossom, herbertha the herb lady, hidden valley, hungry tiger, icetown, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jessamine, jonathan andrew manley, kenneth gage baum, kites, kizzo, lake lavendra, leon the neon, leopard with the changing spots, leopards, nome king, oz-story magazine, oziana, ozma, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, pinny and gig, rats, reilly & lee, rocket trip to oz, scarecrow, shrinking violets, singra, snowmen, spots in oz, terp the terrible, the blue emperor of oz, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ice king of oz, the raggedys in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, violetta, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

Books Within Books

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Nathan

One of Robert Pattrick’s essays in Unexplored Territory in Oz, “Books in Oz,” discusses just what it sounds like. It’s interesting to examine what books characters IN books read. Since fantasy adventure stories often don’t have a lot of down … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged book of royalty, book trees, bookman, books in oz, bookville, grampa in oz, jeremy steadman, kabumpo in oz, king ato, king fumbo of ragbad, margaret berg, ojo in oz, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, private jo files, rhyming dictionary, rith metic, robert pattrick, roger the read bird, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the reading tree of oz, the road to oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, unexplored territory in oz | 1 Comment

You Will Be Assimilated

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Nathan

It’s become a cliché in the Oz series that the magical land is full of insular themed communities where the inhabitants either want to turn visitors into beings like them, or sometimes just keep them as slaves. In Ruth Plumly … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged benny, blankenburg, bookville, bunbury, cave city, chimneyville, china country, clockwise, crystal city, david perry, delves, dogs, double up, gapers, good children, headland, hummingbirds, icetown, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, monday mountain, ojo, patch, patchwork girl, peter brown, play, pokes, preservatory, rith metic, round-abouties, scare city, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, spiders, stair way, suds, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tidy town, tin woodman, turn town, view-halloo, wyndups | 4 Comments

Poets Who Know It

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Nathan

One of the characters introduced in the 1902 stage play of The Wizard of Oz who wasn’t in the book was Sir Dashemoff Daily, the Poet Laureate of Oz. I’m not sure if it was L. Frank Baum or someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bookville, cap'n bill, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, flittermouse, general riskitt, halidom, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, merry go round in oz, ojo, ozma, pastoria, patchwork girl, percy vere, pigasus, popla, professor wogglebug, rhyming dictionary, sir dashemoff daily, sir wiley gyle, sky island, snif the iffin, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the runaway in oz, the wizard of oz (stage play), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, twinkler | 3 Comments

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Nathan

When Benny, the living statue from Boston in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Giant Horse of Oz, arrives in Oz, he asks the Scarecrow if the country is a republic. The straw man replies, “Indeed not! We are a magic monarchy … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, aurex, awgwas, benny, blue country, book of royalty, bookville, boolooroo of the blues, bunnybury, dorothy gale, giants, glinda, gloria, high coco-lorum, james haff, jenny jump, jinxland, king bal loon, king gugu, king timothy of noland, krewl, land o' patch, loonville, macvelt, nandywog, nickadoodle, noland, ozlection, ozma, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, polychrome, professor wogglebug, queen coo-ee-oh, scarecrow, septentria, skeezers, sky island, skyle of un, susan smiggs, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, tripedalia, trot griffiths, whimsies, wicked witch of the west, winkies, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

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