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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 | 3 Comments

Don’t Pester the Jester

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Nathan

Continuing with the April Fools’ theme, I thought I’d look at some court fools in the Oz series. There’s some overlap here with the poets and rhymers. For instance, the Rhyming Dictionary was the Book of Royalty’s jester until he … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bamboula, book of royalty, bunnybury, china country, clowns, corumbia, dorothy of oz, emerald city, fools, gayelette, grampa in oz, hah hoh, happy toko, jesters, kimbaloo, king capers, king cheeriobed, martin hopwell, melody grandy, monday mountain, mr. joker, palumbo, patchwork girl, peter pun, play, queen celestia, rhyming dictionary, rimmers, roger baum, sapphire city, scarecrow, silver island, speedy in oz, summer saltin, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the royal book of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius in oz, town crier, umbrella island, wicked witch of the west | 3 Comments

A Brief Visit to Tir na n’Og

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Nathan

Before the exploration of the world made it necessary for fairylands to be located in alternate universes, dimensional pockets, or far-off planets, it was pretty common for the writers of legends to set them in unexplored or barely explored regions … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Celtic, Chronicles of Narnia, Japanese, Mythology, Oz | Tagged aurea, embarr, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, melody grandy, niamh of the golden hair, oisin, oscar, st. patrick, the lost king of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, tuatha de danann, urashima taro, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz | 12 Comments

Put Your Hand Inside the Buckethead

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Nathan

Bucketheads in Oz, by Greg Gick, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Phyllis Ann Karr, Chuck Sabatos, Deen Shumate, Jim Vander Noot, and Chris Dulabone – While there is a justification for the title in a short scene where two characters accidentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Oz | Tagged buckethead enterprises of oz, bucketheads in oz, chris dulabone, chuck sabatos, conflagra, cowardly lion, deen shumate, effer pheasant the bubble bird, greg gick, greg hunter, harley hammer-head, jim vander noot, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, leotryaton the lazy lion, melody grandy, mombi, osborne austin, oziana, phyllis ann karr, shawn maldonado, tails of the cowardly lion and friends, tekrouri troll, terrence oldshell, the guardian dove, tisha rae the jackalope, wally the woggle-bug | 7 Comments

Zim City

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Nathan

Today’s Oz character is a star in Melody Grandy’s Seven Blue Mountains of Oz trilogy. There are spoilers for these books in the post, and I would definitely recommend reading them if you haven’t yet. They really are good books, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged bleegum, bucketheads in oz, celestia, charles phipps, chris dulabone, dan maryk, david hardenbrook, fern greenleaf, forever in oz, ganalan, green knight, jack, little rooster, maggie, melody grandy, munchkins, noland, oni, ozma, rimmers, rooster, sherlock holmes, spock, that ozzy feeling, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the engagement of ozma, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tippetarius, vega, wam, winkle, zim greenleaf | 19 Comments

Tales of a Considerate Kalidah

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Nathan

Pretty much every new Oz book written these days introduces new characters, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Most of these characters, however, appear in only one book, and even the ones that do reappear generally just do so in … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged bucketheads in oz, chris dulabone, cotrikar, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, melody grandy, monsters, oziana, phyllis ann karr, private jo files, randicot, snif the iffin, terrence oldshell, the guardian dove, thorns and private files in oz | 8 Comments

The Old Flutter-Maker

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Nathan

I think I’m starting to run out of topics for these Oz posts, and I have to wonder if anyone reads them anyway. I’ve already covered my personal favorite characters, and I’m getting to the point where there might not … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged braided man, dorothy and the wizard in oz, eleanor kennedy, melody grandy, ozma, r.k. lionel, the braided man of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the road to oz, tip, who framed roger rabbit | 14 Comments

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Mangaboos and More

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A Brief Visit to Tir na n’Og

Put Your Hand Inside the Buckethead

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