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If Ever a Wiz There Was

Posted on May 21, 2024 by Nathan

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – There was some discussion on a Facebook group I’m on of having a discussion of one Oz book a month, and while I don’t know that anything was ever officially … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Fairy Tales, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged civilization, cowardly lion, crows, death, dorothy gale, emerald city, field-mice, hammer-heads, immortality, mice, scarecrow, storks, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tigers, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, toto, winged monkeys, wolves, yellow brick road | Leave a comment

A Couple of Baums

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve done some more Oz reading recently, and for once it isn’t stuff I’ve already read. First (and second) of all, I ordered the two most recent Oziana issues, 2022 and 2023, from Lulu. The 2022 is all stories by … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, Gina Wickwar, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television | Tagged a moment in time, a portrait of ozma, a rotten pumpkin, angry jack, anna-maria cool, autumn rose frodelius, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, button-bright and the professor, china country, david bishop, david s. skipper, dinner at the del, donald abbott, dorothy gale, early morning coffee with matilda, fortune favors the wogglebug, glinda, glinda and the glass cat, grampa in oz, great book of records, hammer-heads, how i met the scarecrow, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, lulu, matilda joslyn gage, maud baum, memory scraps, ojo, oz and the musical, oziana, ozma, paul dana, professor wogglebug, racism, robert baum, ryan bunch, sara philips, sawhorse, scarecrow, suren ognessian, telegraph, the maid of arran, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the trunk in the attic, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, young frank and his imagination | 1 Comment

All Together Again

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Nathan

It’s interesting that the Land of Oz seems to become more unified over the course of the series, and in fact over the first few books. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz doesn’t even make it entirely clear where the main … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged boq, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hammer-heads, how the wizard came to oz, jinjur, kimbaloo, mombi, ozma, ozma of oz, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, scarecrow, seebania, singra, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Ozma’s Road Tip

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Nathan

The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz, by Onyx Madden – I’ve written about this book before, but had never done a full review, and hadn’t read it all the way through in some years. I get the impression that it’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Edward Einhorn, Gender, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy | Tagged aristotle, bicycles, birds, cowardly lion, crows, cwn annwn, dcim wainwright, dogs, dragons, emerald city, fairies, fighting trees, glinda, goblins, hammer-heads, hobgoblins, hungry tiger, j. noel, lurline, magic picture, mockingbirds, nymphs, opaloz, ozma, ozma sees herself, puck, quox, red wagon, sawhorse, scarecrow, the hobbit, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, witches | Leave a comment

Someone in Oz

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve been reading through the Oziana issues that I already reviewed pretty quickly, and I can’t think of much to add beyond what I’ve already said. I will mention that editor John L. Bell thought of the 2005 one as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Characters, David Tai, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged alejandro garcia, always look a gift goat in the mouth, anna-maria cool, arianna brown, executive decisions, fiddle's revenge, frogman, frogs, gabriel gale, general guph, glinda, griffins, gump, hammer-heads, horners, invisible fence, j. l. bell, jack and larry brenton, jeremy fisher, john fricke, kalidahs, king anko, li-mon-eags, michael patrick hearn, mombi, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rak, red jinn, spiders, the art of oz, the axman's arm, the bashful baker of oz, the bashful baker's honeymoon, the emerald city of oz, the ork in oz, the red desert of oz, the royal explorers of oz, thy fearful symmetry, voyage of the crescent moon, wheelers | 1 Comment

Deadwood Oaks and Duende

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Nathan

I feel like I’ve pretty much exhausted all the Oz books, or at least the ones that are generally consistent with the original series (not that everyone even agrees on what that is). I’ll occasionally come across lists of interesting-sounding … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a million miles from here is oz, alexander volkov, cap'n bill, dagmar in oz, david f. salas, deadwood oaks, dorothy and the wooden soldiers of oz, dorothy gale, duende, fairies, fighting trees, glinda, hammer-heads, ken romer, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, nome king, polychrome, quiet victory, robin hess, the deadly desert around oz, the duende of oz, the lost tales of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the spelling bee of oz, three-headed elvis clone found in flying saucer over oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, urfin jus, urfin jus and his wooden soldiers, victor columbia edison, wicked witch of the east | Leave a comment

Ain’t No Party Like a Kuma Party

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Nathan

I’ve already discussed disembodied but still living heads in the Oz series, but what about other body parts? Well, in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Lost King of Oz, the enchanted Pastoria has ears that can separate from his head, fly … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abominable no-man, fred otto, hammer-heads, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kuma party, nome king, ojo in oz, ozma, pastoria, patchwork girl, peter brown, reachard, the axman's arm, the frogman of oz, the gnome king of oz, the invisible fairy of oz, the lost king of oz, wicked witch of the east, winged monkeys, wumbo | 5 Comments

Urfin Jus Conquers the Marrans

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Nathan

The Fiery God of the Marrans, by Alexander Volkov, translated by Peter Blystone – The fourth book in the Russian Magic Land series is…well, busy. I think the translator was right when he said Volkov tried to pack too much … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Oz | Tagged alexander volkov, alfred canning, annie smith, carfax, eagles, ellie, emerald city, hammer-heads, l. frank baum, magic land, marrans, peter blystone, strasheela, tales of magic land, the fiery god of the marrans, the seven underground kings, tim o'kelly, urfin jus, urfin jus and his wooden soldiers | 4 Comments

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If Ever a Wiz There Was

A Couple of Baums

All Together Again

Ozma’s Road Tip

Someone in Oz

Deadwood Oaks and Duende

Ain’t No Party Like a Kuma Party

Urfin Jus Conquers the Marrans

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