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Pendexter’s Laboratory

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Nathan

Today, in my ongoing look at obscure Oz books, I’m looking at the work of Hugh Pendexter III. He dives into some unanswered questions from the series and includes quite a few references, although he mostly uses his own characters, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cap'n bill, curtis dunham, dogs, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, elephants, ev, farhold island, forest of gugu, great gillikin forest, how the wizard came to oz, johnny dooit, mombi, morrow, nine tiny piglets, oz and the three witches, ozma, paul clarendon west, robots, saturn, shaggy man, silico, tales of the crocheted cat, the crocheted cat in oz, the golden goblin, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the pearl and the pumpkin, the road to oz, the sea fairies, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz, wooglet in oz | Leave a comment

Eleven, Twelve, Pig and Delve

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Nathan

The first noticeable thing about the 1995 Oziana is that the cover has a picture by the late Rob Roy MacVeigh of the main characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There’s also inside cover art by editor Robin Olderman, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a princess of oz, betsy bobbin, cats, david hulan, david maxine, delves, destre xan childs, dolls, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, glinda, jack pumpkinhead, james vincent iii, k. kline, kaliko in oz, karyl carlson, magic belt, nine tiny piglets, nome king, nome kingdom, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, pigs, queen delva, rob roy macveigh, robin olderman, scarecrow, the dollmaker of oz, the purple prince of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, tin woodman, trot griffiths, wag the rabbit, wizard of oz, yellow brick road | 2 Comments

The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Nathan

The 1994 Oziana has two stories that were written for the Oz Story Circle, run by Fred Meyer. I was a member back then, but it would take twenty more years for something I wrote around that time to appear … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allison mcbain, benjamin fang, bill eubank, billy bumble of oz, buckethead in oz, bumble, cap'n bill, clowns, cory in oz, cowardly lion, dennis anfuso, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, dragons, fred meyer, ghostbusters, ghosts, ghosts in oz, glinda, great book of records, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, jellia jamb, kimberly doyle, leprechauns in oz, lurline, magic belt, margaret berg, marie candler richardson, mark haas, merryland, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor grunter swyne, puns, robin olderman, scarecrow, simon t. inphinium, squealina swyne, teenty-weent, the cowardly lion of oz, the last battle, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin woodman of oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the witch queen of oz, tin woodman, witches, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Flittering Away

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1990 Oziana is a professional issue, in that all the authors and illustrators actually do that for a living. Most of them had appeared in Oziana before this, and one of these stories was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, amazing stories, birds, bucketheads in oz, bungle the glass cat, bzzzantium, cats, chapter three, dorothy gale, doves, fess, flittermouse, frogman, hungry tiger, in a season of calm weather, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, merry go round in oz, nine tiny piglets, nome king, oziana, Pablo Picasso, percy the personality kid, peter pan, professor wogglebug, rats, ray bradbury, robin brown, russet meagle, terrence oldshell, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the guardian dove, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, troth, truth pond, virginia woolf, wendy darling, woot the wanderer | 3 Comments

The New Ugu

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Nathan

I guess it’s time for Oziana 1984. The cover by Melody Grandy shows a typical inhabitant of the Pink and Blue Countries of Sky Island, which is relevant to the first story. The introduction explains that, since L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Hugh Pendexter, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, alexander pope, boolooroo of the blues, brownies, cats, confido, corabia, david hulan, david ingersoll, dogs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, dunciad, eureka in oz, eureka the pink kitten, ev, fairies, general guph, gili bar-hillel, glenn ingersoll, great detective, jay delkin, kalidahs, nine tiny piglets, oziana, ozma, philip john lewin, pigmentation, rain king, robin olderman, sky island, the blue raindrops of oz, the colorful kitten of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mystery of the missing ozma, the piglets' revenge, the pronunciad, the yellow knight of oz, trot griffiths, ugu, ugu the shoemaker, wishing pills, wooglet in oz | 1 Comment

Companimals

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Nathan

Animal companions are a recurring theme in the Oz books, starting with Dorothy’s dog Toto. Kids reading the books were likely used to pets, so it makes sense. Since animals talk in Oz, however, some animal characters are more equal … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, billina, bunnybury, camels, cats, catty corners, chalk, civilization, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, david perry, dogs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka, frogman, glinda, griffins, grumpy, handy mandy in oz, hank the mule, high boy, horses, humpty bumpty, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jim the cab-horse, jonathan andrew manley, kabumpo, keretaria, king skamperoo, nickadoodle, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, nox the ox, ozma, ozma of oz, patch, patchwork girl, percy the personality kid, peter brown, pets, pigasus, pigs, pinny and gig, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, pumperdink, rabbits, seebania, sir hokus of pokes, snif the iffin, snufferbux, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the royal book of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, toto, yankee, yankee in oz, zeb hugson | Leave a comment

We Are Family

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Nathan

This post on the Merry Old Land of Oz Facebook group got me thinking about how most of the kids who visit Oz tend to be only children. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have siblings we don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Dick Martin, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged acinad, alexander volkov, allison mcbain, annie smith, aunt em, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, cap'n bob, christmas in oz, clarence skillet, cory in oz, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, ellie smith, frank joslyn baum, fumaro, general riskitt, glinda, glinda of oz, greg hunter, guardian of the gates, handy mandy, how the wizard saved oz, jack pumpkinhead, jeff freedman, jellia jamb, joe weedles, kabina, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, margolotte, mombi, nine tiny piglets, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, omby amby, ozma, ozmapolitan, pastoria, patchwork girl, paul dana, pinny and gig, polychrome, prince philador, queen ann soforth, robin hess, salye soforth, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, shaggy man, tales of magic land, the enchanted gnome of oz, the giant horse of oz, the goat girls of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the mysterious pool of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the ozampolitan of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), three adepts, tik-tok of oz, time-travelling in oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Names for the Nameless

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Nathan

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there aren’t that many characters with proper names. Even the ones who do have them tend not to have last names. The stage play gave Dorothy a last name and the Tin Woodman a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Fred Otto, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, alexander volkov, aunt em, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, charles phipps, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, eric gjovaag, fairy beavers, frogman, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, henry blossom, hungry tiger, james howe, jim vander noot, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, karyl carlson, lin carter, mark haas, names, nine tiny piglets, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, uncle henry, wam, winged monkeys, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

Piglet Pride

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Nathan

The Nine Tiny Piglets are never especially important characters, but they do receive a some attention in the Oz books. They first appear in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz as animals the Wizard uses in his tricks. He claims … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, eureka, gili bar-hillel, glenn ingersoll, hugh pendexter, kimberly doyle, nine tiny piglets, ozma, pigmentation, pigs, professor grunter and squealina swyne, the crocheted cat in oz, the piglets' revenge, the tin woodman of oz, wizard of oz | 12 Comments

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