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The Offbeat Officials of Oz

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

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Map Attack

On the map of the countries surrounding Oz from the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers, L. Frank Baum included places from his non-Oz fantasies, including the as-yet-unpublished King Rinkitink that would become Rinkitink in Oz two years later. Most of these had already … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, bandits, beavers, boboland, chick the cherub, coregos, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ev, fairy beavers, hightown, hiland, international wizard of oz club, isle of phreex, james e. haff, jinxland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king ato, king rinkitink, loland, mifkets, mo, nome kingdom, nomes, nonestic ocean, octagon isle, ozma of oz, palace of romance, pingaree, pirates, pirates in oz, princess jacquelin, regos, rinkitink in oz, ruprecht the castaway king, scoodlers, the emerald city of oz, the road to oz, the scalawagons of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tales of yot, tik-tok of oz, valley of romance, vegetable kingdom |

A Pauper, on the Other Hand, Is Ruling, Strong and Wise

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s three companions all end up as rulers: the Scarecrow of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman of the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion of the Quadling Forest. In later books, only Nick … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aurex, cap'n joe weedles, chick the cherub, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dragons, emerald city, glinda of oz, halidom, handy mandy in oz, happy toko, hiland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, kaliko, king timothy of noland, loland, merry go round in oz, mombi, mother goose in prose, nifflepok, noland, nome king, old king cole, ozma, pastoria, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, queen coo-ee-oh, queen rosalie, queen tourmaline, queen zixi of ix, quilties, quox, robin brown, roundabout, scarecrow, silver island, silver mountain, sir greves, skeezers, sky island, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the royal book of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, whatland, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog |

Ix in the Mix

Two of the closest neighbors to the Land of Oz, located just across the desert to the north, are the kingdoms of Ix and Noland. The former has a name modeled on that of Oz itself, as do Ev and … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged chick the cherub, ev, harry mongold, ix, john dough and the cherub, king timothy of noland, magic cloak, noland, princess margaret of noland, queen zixi of ix, roly-rogues, ruffles, the sawhorse of oz, the silver princess in oz, wizard of oz |

Sing It Hi, Sing It Lo

I was considering writing a post on prophecies in the Oz books, but it looks like I already did that. Why do I always forget my own post topics? While I mentioned that L. Frank Baum didn’t really use prophecies … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged chick the cherub, hiland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, loland, para bruin, prophecy, the magic of oz, who's who in oz |

Even Other Phreex Hate the Freakshow

Continuing with John Dough and the Cherub, I’m going to take a closer look at the Isle of Phreex, where Chick the Cherub lived before journeying with John Dough to Hi-Lo/Lo-Hi. This island in the Nonestic Ocean (exactly where is … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged bebe celeste, brotherhood of failings, chick the cherub, circus sideshows, duo the two-headed dog, freak shows, fresh-air fiend, general of phreex, imar, isle of phreex, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kinglet of phreex, maria simpson, nebbie, nonestic ocean, prize potato, richard wagner, sir austed alfrin, sir pryse bocks, tietjamus toips, wart-on-the-nose-and-cleaver-in-the-neck |

Chickfactor

I seem to be running out of ideas for Oz posts. Then again, I’ve thought that before, and was usually able to come up with something. I considered doing something about the Ice King, due to the similarity between his … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged ali dubh, chick the cherub, hiland, isle of phreex, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kinglet of phreex, loland, the road to oz |