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The Sins of Silver Island

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Nathan

The Royal Book of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I’d gotten into the habit a few years ago of starting to reread the hundredth-anniversary Oz book around L. Frank Baum’s birthday, 15 May. Since the last one was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Families, History, Humor, Japan, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bungle the glass cat, camels, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, don quixote, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, dr. pipt, fix city, giants, gilbert and sullivan, jack pumpkinhead, kamikaze, memo, ozma, patchwork girl, pokes, professor wogglebug, racism, randum, silver island, sir hokus of pokes, the mikado, the royal book of oz | 3 Comments

Get Out of Town

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Nathan

There are a lot of characters who come to live in Ozma’s palace, or sometimes elsewhere in or near the Emerald City. Is the city becoming overcrowded? Probably not, considering that it has the same population in L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, belfaygor, bob up, bourne, bucky jones, bungle the glass cat, captain fyter, carter green, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, davy jones, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, emerald city, frogman, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kabumpo, kiki aru, lake quad, lucky bucky in oz, mount munch, much ado about kiki aru, nickadoodle, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, pumperdink, ruth waara, scarecrow, sean patrick duffley, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, toto, unc nunkie, uncle henry | Leave a comment

If I Could Talk with the Animals

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Nathan

While they can often amount to the same thing in narrative, there’s a clear difference between animals speaking in human language and people being able to understand animal language. Dr. Dolittle is probably the most famous example of the latter, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ali dubh, comfortable camel, doctor dolittle, doubtful dromedary, elixir of life, fafnir, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king solomon, ozish, para bruin, pittypat the rabbit, polychrome, queen zixi of ix, santa claus, siegfried, the life and adventures of santa claus, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tin woodman | Leave a comment

Best Friends Forever and Even Longer

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Nathan

We’ve established that there aren’t very many ROMANTIC couples in the Oz books, but there are a whole lot of best friend pairs. Some people choose to make them romantic pairings as well, because that’s what fans of pretty much … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, guardian of the gates, hank the mule, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, little wizard stories of oz, ojo, omby amby, ozma, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, sawhorse, scarecrow, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths | 7 Comments

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