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Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog |

No Talking, Just Animals

At the most recent OzCon International, I was on a panel about animals in Oz, discussing, among other things, whether they have the same rights as humans. It went off track a few times, but some interesting topics came up. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Gina Wickwar, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged baffleburg, bilbil, billina, combinoceros, dogs, donkeys, emerald city, ev, hank the mule, horses, immortality, ix, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, king randywell, lions, mombi, ojo in oz, ozcon international, ozma of oz, peter brown, pita the sand witch, queen zixi of ix, realbad, rinkitink in oz, ruffles, samandra, snip, snoctorotomus, tazzywaller, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost king of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the silver princess in oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto of oz, wizard of oz |

Revising Rinkitink

Last year, there was a contest to write a new ending to Rinkitink in Oz, the goal being to come up with what L. Frank Baum might have written before revising the King Rinkitink manuscript as an Oz book. There’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Names, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, david hulan, joe bongiorno, king rinkitink, oziana, ozma of oz, randy hoffman, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, the lost princess of oz, toto and the cats of oz |

Fairyland Lost

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 |

Princes Proving Their Prowess, Whatever That Means

Since the main theme of this year’s OzCon International was Rinkitink in Oz, with Captain Salt and Ozmapolitan sidelining, it’s not too surprising that the subject of boy protagonists in the Oz books would come up. And yes, there are … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Fairy Tales, Families, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, atmos fere, betsy bobbin, bilbil, captain salt, captain salt in oz, carter green, david perry, evered of rash, frederick wiegand, grampa, grampa in oz, halidom, high boy, hungry tiger, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, king ato, king cheeriobed, king fumbo, king randywell, king rinkitink, king rupert of kapurta, merry go round in oz, ojo, ojo in oz, oz con international, ozamaland, ozcon international, prince gules, prince inga of pingaree, prince philador, prince pompadore, prince tatters, princes, pumperdink, ragbad, rash, rash rubies, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, roger the read bird, septimius septentrion, swords, tazander tazah of ozamaland, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the silver princess in oz, trot griffiths, urtha, wag |

Another Myself

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 |

Crouching Princess, Hidden Prince

The idea of a seemingly insignificant person turning out to be royalty is a common one in myths and fairy tales, and the Oz books are no exception. Since the royals aren’t usually revealed until near the end of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Gina Wickwar, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bilbil, good witch of the north, grampa in oz, kabumpo in oz, king randywell, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, pastoria, peg amy, prince bobo, prince cyan, princess pretty good, rinkitink in oz, royalty, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, sir hokus of pokes, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, tippetarius, unc nunkie |

Nome Invasions

I’ve already discussed the constant invasion attempts of the former Nome King, but this time I’d like to take a closer look at the individual attempts. The first occurs in The Emerald City of Oz, in which King Roquat’s goal … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Magic Items, Oz | Tagged bilbil, captain salt, cinderbutton the witch, clocker, cowardly lion, flying cloak of invisibility, forbidden fountain, forest of gugu, general guph, glegg's box of mixed magic, great book of records, growleywogs, handy mandy, hany mandy in oz, jack snow, kabumpo in oz, kadj the conjurer, kiki aru, l. frank baum, magic belt, nome king, nomes, ozma, peter brown, phanfasms, pigasus, pirates in oz, prince inga of pingaree, pyrzqxgl, ruth plumly thompson, scarecrow, silence stone, standing-stick, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the shaggy man of oz, whimsies, wizard of wutz |

Back to Boboland

When I wrote about the protagonists of Rinkitink in Oz, I mentioned that one of them turned out to be Prince Bobo of Boboland under the enchantment of an evil sorcerer. So what is Boboland? Well, really all L. Frank … Continue reading →

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