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This Was Once a Local, But It’s Now an Express

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Nathan

With the 1972 Oziana, we start with a cover drawn by Tony Moses, showing several Oz characters attending what appears to be a fair. The Cowardly Lion is sitting and reading The Annotated Alice, and the Woozy floating away with … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice | Tagged adrienne martinez, brian baker, cowardly lion, diana merryman, dragons, flying carpets, fred meyer, hedgehogs, it's tuesday this must be oz, jeff freedman, jokesville, kalidahs, magic carpet, mary reynolds, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, racism, scraps and the cruel kalidah, sherwood smith, the disenchanted princess of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tin woodman, tony moses, wizard of oz, woozy | 2 Comments

Clash of Cultures

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Nathan

Immortal Longings of Oz, by Paul Dana – The adventures of Button-Bright and Ojo, who have obtained magic powers and use them to help people, continue with this trip to the Land of Ev. As this neighboring fairyland doesn’t share … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Gender, History, Inuit, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aesir, button-bright, death, ev, fairies, freydis eriksdottir, immortal longings of oz, immortality, ix, jesus, jordanna max brodsky, jotuns, king evardo xv, land of an, leif erikson, lurline, noland, ojo, onna val, paul dana, phoenix, prince inga of pingaree, queen regent eviret, queen zixi of ix, ragnarok, red jinn, sherwood smith, taqqiq, the wolf in the whale, trouble under oz, vikings, wheelers | 1 Comment

Gnomic Utterances

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Nathan

I recently read Ruth Berman’s Dunkiton Pamphlet on Gnome Matters, including a history of gnomes, touching on their use in the Oz books. I’ve written about this topic before, like how the name might well have originated with Paracelsus, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, German, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bucketheads in oz, delves, demons, dunkiton press, edward r. blanchard, elementals, enilrul, eva katharine gibson, fairies, fire fairies, frank joslyn baum, gnome king, gnome matters, gnomes, gnomides, goblins, gold panners, goldemar, greg hunter, isabel johnston, j. l. bell, jimmy bulber of oz, joe bongiorno, julia brown, kaliko, knarls, margaret berg, nome king, nomes, number-nip, nymphs, paracelsus, polychrome, quar, royal timeline of oz, rubezahl, ruth berman, sherwood smith, the emerald city mirror, the enchanted gnome of oz, the gnome king and the good fairy of the silver mine, the hidden prince of oz, the jeweled toad, the life and adventures of santa claus, the purple prince of oz, the reading tree of oz, the three threads, the tik-tok man of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, w. w. denslow, william brough, zauberlinda the wise witch | 5 Comments

OzCon in a Nutshell, or Perhaps a Peach Pit

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Nathan

I’m back from OzCon International 2017 (sometimes still called the Winkie Convention) in Portland, Oregon. The main theme was The Lost Princess of Oz, and the location because Ozma was Ore-gone. No, I’m actually not sure why that location was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Humor, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged claymation, david maxine, doug aberle, eric gjovaag, inanna mcgraw, international wizard of oz club, john fricke, nomes, ozcon international, ozma of oz, return to oz, robin hess, sherwood smith, ted eshbaugh, the lost princess of oz, will vinton, winkie convention | 4 Comments

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 | 2 Comments

Know Your Gnomes

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve been looking into the portrayal of various mythical peoples in works of fiction, and it seems to me that some are much better defined than others. I asked earlier today on Twitter and Facebook what people thought of when … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Xanth | Tagged bism, david bowie, deep-elves, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elementals, elves, fairies, george macdonald, gnomes, goblins, j.m. barrie, jareth, kabumpo in oz, labyrinth, matiah, noldor, nome king, nomes, orcs, ozma of oz, paracelsus, peter pan, pirates in oz, polychrome, salamanders, sherwood smith, silmarils, the emerald city of oz, the hobbit, the princess and the goblin, the road to oz, the silver chair, the wishing horse of oz, tinker bell | 7 Comments

Name That Witch

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Nathan

This picture spawned some conversation on Facebook about the name of the Wicked Witch of the West. As you probably know, the name Elphaba is from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, and was derived from that of L. Frank Baum. The Wicked … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a foolish fable from oz, alexander volkov, darrell spradlyn, eric gjovaag, gregory maguire, jared davis, joe bongiorno, magic land, mombi, oz: the great and powerful, sherwood smith, sinister gases in oz, the emerald wand of oz, the living house of oz, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, witches of the west | 1 Comment

A Pyrate’s Life for Me

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Nathan

Sky Pyrates Over Oz, by Sherwood Smith – Back in 2005, Random House became the first major publisher in some time to put out a traditional Oz book, Smith’s The Emerald Wand of Oz. It featured the adventures of two … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, glinda, jean shirley, kim mcfarland, kingdom of dreams, l. frank baum: royal historian of oz, michael patrick hearn, patchwork girl, random house, sherwood smith, six snubnosed princesses, sky island, sky pyrates over oz, the emerald wand of oz, to please a child, trouble under oz, william stout | Leave a comment

This Is Fairyland, Speak Ozish

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Nathan

I’ve written before about how everyone in Oz at least seems to speak English. Ruth Plumly Thompson apparently thought Ozish and English were the same language, while Sherwood Smith’s books give some hints of an automatic translation spell of sorts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged airish, anuther planet, atmos fere, dinosaurs, english, ozish, ozma, peter brown, pirates in oz, planetty, shell city, sherwood smith, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the hungry tiger of oz, the silver princess in oz | 19 Comments

Nome Magic at All

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Nathan

One item that’s somewhat inconsistent throughout the Oz series (now THERE’S a shock, right?) is how much magic power the Nomes have. In The Emerald City of Oz, General Guph tells Roquat, “Nomes are immortals, but they are not strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bungle the glass cat, coregos, dorothy gale, fairies, gnomes, immortals, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, king gos of regos, magic belt, magic spyglass, nome king, nomes, ozga, ozma of oz, paracelsus, pigasus, pirates in oz, potaroo, queen cor of coregos, quox, regos, rikiki, rinkitink in oz, ruggedo and the school of magic, ruggedo in oz, scott dickerson, shaggy man, sherwood smith, the emerald city of oz, the emerald wand of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, who's who in oz | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: sherwood smith

This Was Once a Local, But It’s Now an Express

Clash of Cultures

Gnomic Utterances

OzCon in a Nutshell, or Perhaps a Peach Pit

Mangaboos and More

Know Your Gnomes

Name That Witch

A Pyrate’s Life for Me

This Is Fairyland, Speak Ozish

Nome Magic at All

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