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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

I Like Birds

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh | 2 Comments

The Best of Inventions

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Nathan

If you’ve read the Oz books, you might remember Smith and Tinker as the creators of Tik-Tok, as well as the Giant with the Hammer and, as per Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the Hundred-Year Alarm Clock. I’ve written about them before … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged a side view of the nonestic islands, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, dcim wainwright, ev, frank joslyn baum, frost 'n freeze, giant with the hammer, glinda and the red jinn, hundred-year alarm clock, inventors, james howe, jim vander noot, jubulut, julius quickscissors, martha cornog, mister tinker in oz, mr. smith, mr. tinker, oziana, ozma of oz, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, rosine and the laughing dragon of oz, singra, smith and tinker, speckoscope, stumbling blocks, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the witch queen of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok, timothy perper, wishful fixing lotion, wooglet in oz | 4 Comments

Books Within Books

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Nathan

One of Robert Pattrick’s essays in Unexplored Territory in Oz, “Books in Oz,” discusses just what it sounds like. It’s interesting to examine what books characters IN books read. Since fantasy adventure stories often don’t have a lot of down … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged book of royalty, book trees, bookman, books in oz, bookville, grampa in oz, jeremy steadman, kabumpo in oz, king ato, king fumbo of ragbad, margaret berg, ojo in oz, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, private jo files, rhyming dictionary, rith metic, robert pattrick, roger the read bird, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the reading tree of oz, the road to oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, unexplored territory in oz | 1 Comment

Mountains of Mystery

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Nathan

Even though John Dough and the Cherub clearly indicates that Hiland and Loland are on an island, called Hi-Lo by some and Lo-Hi by others, the map in the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers shows them as part of the mainland, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, hiland, ivalane valley, ivalor, jack breton, james e. haff, john burton hatcher, john dough and the cherub, john drury clark, larry breton, loland, meerth, nimenvell, ozma of oz, skeezik and the mys-tree of oz, terra obscura, the baum bugle, the gardener's boy of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the ork in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the search for soob, thorns and private files in oz, witches, zectorland | 2 Comments

Oz-Crossed Lovers

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum was known to have said that he didn’t want romance or “mawkish sentimentality” in his children’s stories. Of course, Baum was also known for breaking pretty much every writing rule he came up with, but he was … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Fairy Tales, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged belfaygor, chopfyt, danx, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, gayelette, gloria, grampa in oz, hamlet, his majesty the scarecrow of oz, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jenny jump, jesseva, jinjur, kabumpo in oz, king randywell, nimmie amee, number nine, ophelia, ozga, pastoria, peg amy, planetty, pon, princess gureeda, princess marygolden of corabia, princess pretty good, private jo files, quelala, shirley sunshine, sir dashemoff daily, sir hokus of pokes, speedy, speedy in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (stage play), the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tryxie tryfle | 4 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

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