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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 | 1 Comment

Jump Into Cha-Oz

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

The Wonder City of Oz, by John R. Neill – After Ruth Plumly Thompson gave up writing Oz books, the publishers turned to the illustrator. I understand they’d been considering signing on Neill as the new writer before settling on … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, captain salt, david maxine, emerald city, jack pumpkinhead, jellia jamb, jenny jump, kabumpo, lobotomy, mari ness, number nine, omby amby, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, shoes, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, the wonder city of oz, uncle henry, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Where the Worlds Have No Name

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Nathan

One night last week, I had a fitful sleep with a bunch of weird dreams. I remember one of them had me ranting about how J.R.R. Tolkien was never clear on whether Middle-Earth was his entire imaginary world or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Maps, March Laumer, Mario, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alefgard, Arda, calormen, continent of imagination, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, gaia, galaxies, hyrule, jupiter, mars, middle-earth, midgard, moon, mushroom world, narnia, nonestic ocean, planets, professor wogglebug, saturn, sun, super mario bros. 3, the royal book of oz, world tree, yggdrasil | Leave a comment

Unequal Reprozentation

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Nathan

Picture by Jimmy Robinson I had observed before how L. Frank Baum didn’t do a whole lot with the Gillikin Country after introducing it The Marvelous Land of Oz, then had a lot happen there in his last three Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, emerald city, ev, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jinjur, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, merry go round in oz, munchkins, nome kingdom, nonestic ocean, ozana, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, professor wogglebug, quadlings, ragbad, speedy in oz, statistics, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tin castle, winkies | Leave a comment

Ozian-American Studies

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Nathan

The five most recent stories on Hungry Tiger Tales are fairly obscure promotional material for the Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz comic pages. A set of faux news stories about the visitors landing on various planets before … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Characters, Comics, Food, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged chicago record-herald, gumdrops, gump, herby, hungry tiger press, hungry tiger tales, jack pumpkinhead, ozma, ozmapolitan, paul tietjens, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, sawhorse, scarecrow, the giant horse of oz, the marvelous land of oz, thick tamales for attenuated artists, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, what did the woggle-bug say? | Leave a 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

Glutton for Punnishness

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Nathan

Something I’ve looked at before is the nature of puns in the Oz series, and how they can serve different purposes. Some are purposely made by the characters, some are asides, and others are just kind of part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, jack pumpkinhead, ozcon international, ozlection, patchwork girl, paul dana, professor wogglebug, puns, sawhorse, scarecrow, spoolicle, the emerald city of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the woggle-bug book, the wonder city oz, utensia, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Never Enough Oz

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Nathan

Lost Lands of Oz: The Rain King Is Missing, by Dr. Janet Kelly – This book is intended to teach values to kids, and as an adult reading for fun, I can’t say how successful it is in that respect. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Games, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports | Tagged ak, alexander volkov, benny, betsy bobbin, button-bright, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, dorothy gale, frogman, ghosts, gingema's daughter, handy mandy, herby, janet kelly, jinjur, kamui ayami, lost lands of oz, maggie greenleaf, nomes, notta bit more, owls, ozma, perry, peter blystone, professor wogglebug, rain king, sergei sukhinov, superb owl, tales of magic land, tales of the emerald city, the haunted castle of oz, the rain king is missing, the superb owl of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep, trot griffiths, wicked witch of the east, winged monkeys, witches, zim greenleaf | 3 Comments

Half-Civilized

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Nathan

When Dorothy first comes to Oz, the Good Witch of the North tells her, “In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left; nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmentalism, Fairy Tales, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Technology | Tagged agriculture, aunt em, china country, cities, civilization, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, fairies, garden of eden, good witch of the north, gump, munchkins, ozma, phonograph, pollution, professor wogglebug, sapphire city, science fiction, shaggy man, telegraph, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the marvelous land of oz, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, victor columbia edison, who's afraid, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winkies, witches, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Make Oz Marvelous

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Nathan

I finally got around to listening to The Chronicles of Oz, audio drama adaptations of the original Oz books. They recently finished with the final installment of The Marvelous Land of Oz, and I think they’re planning on adapting all … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged audio play, crossover productions, dorothy gale, dragons, emerald city, forbidden fountain, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, jellia jamb, jinjur, mombi, ozma, professor wogglebug, queen of the field-mice, quox, scarecrow, the chronicles of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches | 3 Comments

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