Tag Archives: the magic umbrella of oz

Hello, Yellow Brick Road

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Nathan

Let’s take a look at the 2017 Oziana, the literary magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, which was recently released. There are three stories this time, plus a one-page poetic work. As far as I can remember, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Fred Otto, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry | Tagged angry jack, beyond the rainbow, bone white, bumblebeast, daniel k. cox, e.j. hagadorn, ervic, glinda of oz, grace willey, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, oziana, patchwork girl, patchworked memory, paul dana, peer counseling, prince glenn of portmore, red reera the yookoohoo and the enchanted easter eggs of oz, reera the red, richard quinn, s.a. samuelson, sara philips, the living house of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road not taken, thrug, unsociable, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yellow brick road | 3 Comments

Fairyland Lost

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Nathan

Anyone who’s read the Oz books from The Emerald City of Oz on knows that residence in that fairyland grants certain magical effects, including a lack of aging unless you want to grow older, and presumably the inability to die … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Comics, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, beach blanket babyloz, bilbil, billina, christopher buckley, death, dorothy gale, ev, farmooth urbof, george van buren, glinda, glinda of oz, humpty bumpty, immortality, jeremy steadman, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, rinkitink in oz, samandra, scarecrow, the emerald city of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the silver princess in oz, the witch queen of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto, urbof effect, wizard of oz, zimbo and the magic amulet | 1 Comment

Button-Bright Illumination

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Nathan

The other day, I came across a link to this bit of Oz fanfiction about Polychrome finding Button-Bright in Philadelphia and taking him to Mo. It fills in some gaps in his story, since The Scarecrow of Oz has him … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, button-bright, christmas in oz, grandma natch, jack frost, jeremy steadman, magic umbrella, margaret berg, martin gardner, mary poppins, ojo, outsiders from oz, p.l. travers, paul dana, polychrome, red jinn, robin hess, snow queen, the emerald ring of oz, the glass dog, the lost boy of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the visitors from oz, twin properties, Vaughn Smythe | 5 Comments

Perfectly Petrified

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Nathan

Writing about the legend that Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was turned into a marble statue and buried near the Golden Gate of Constantinople got me thinking of the mentions of such statues in the Oz books. For some reason, L. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bortag, button-bright, cinderbutton, clocker, corumbia, cowardly lion, crunch, crystal city, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, emerald city, emperor constantine xi palaiologos, enchanted sleep, glinda, handy mandy in oz, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, kiki aru, king arthur, king mustafa of mudge, liquid of petrifaction, magic belt, marble statues, margolotte, mombi, nome king, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, paul dana, petrifying powder, pirates in oz, planetty, pokes, poppies, powder of life, powder of petrifaction, princess marygolden, quiberon, red jinn, return to oz, singra, sir hokus of pokes, sleep, speedy, speedy in oz, standing-stick, statues, stupefying powder, the cowardly lion of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, unc nunkie, valynn, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, yankee in oz | 4 Comments

Another Myself

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Nathan

In the December 1993 issue of The Emerald City Mirror, Marie Richardson (who seems to have disappeared from the Internet, by the way) had a story in which Roquat and Ruggedo turn out to be two separate Nomes. They’re brothers, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged bilbil, captain fyter, chopfyt, emerald city mirror, good witch of the north, grampa in oz, hungry reader, identity, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, marie candler richardson, mombi, nome king, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, pajuka, pastoria, paul dana, peg amy, pocotristi sostenuto, prince bobo, princess marygolden, princess pretty good, rinkitink in oz, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, switcheroo spell, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road to oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, yankee in oz | 3 Comments

My Future Lies Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Nathan

The Yellow Brick Road has become one of the most famous fictional roads in history, largely because of the song in the MGM movie that consisted almost entirely of the words “follow the Yellow Brick Road” over and over again. … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged boq, cream city bricks, dick martin, donald abbott, dorothy of oz, emerald city, good witch of the north, henry littlefield, how the wizard came to oz, james e. haff, paul dana, peter schulenburg, roger baum, scarecrow, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hollyhock dolls of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin castle of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, wicked witch of the east, yellow brick road, yip harburg | 6 Comments

Day of the Locasta

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve been looking at TV Tropes a fair amount recently, and of course I read the stuff about Oz, as well as about some other properties of which I’m a fan. I looked before at some conspiracy theories, many of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dave hardenbrook, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hugh pendexter, j. l. bell, joe bongiorno, king cheeriobed, mombi, ojo in oz, oz and the three witches, ozma, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, the giant horse of oz, the good witch of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, tv tropes, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, wizard of oz | 10 Comments

Birth in a Deathless Land

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve written before about how the Oz books handle the issue of aging, but I don’t think I’ve said much yet about childbirth, and Paul Dana’s The Magic Umbrella of Oz addresses that very topic. We’re told in The Tin … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Families, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, babies, captain salt, captain salt in oz, chelery coglammen, childbirth, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, king randywell, lurline, number fourteen, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, overpopulation, paul dana, peg amy, prince pompadore, princess pajonia, the magic umbrella of oz, the purple prince of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Goodhearted and Good Fellowing, We Gaily Go Umbrellowing

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Nathan

The Magic Umbrella of Oz, by Paul Dana – The follow-up to The Law of Oz sees Button-Bright and Ojo further developing their magic, and trying to fight off the nasty Piper who had created the Phanfasms. The Piper recruits … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged button-bright, carl barks, his majesty the nome king, images of oz, j. l. bell, jinnicky saves christmas, lurline, magic umbrella, mrs. yoop, ojo, paul dana, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, scrooge mcduck, shawn maldonado, the law of oz and other stories, the magic umbrella of oz, the ransom of button-bright, tititi-hoochoo, Vaughn Smythe, w. w. denslow, wag, wicked witch of the east | 7 Comments

Tag Archives: the magic umbrella of oz

Hello, Yellow Brick Road

Fairyland Lost

Button-Bright Illumination

Perfectly Petrified

Another Myself

My Future Lies Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

Day of the Locasta

Birth in a Deathless Land

Goodhearted and Good Fellowing, We Gaily Go Umbrellowing

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