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Put Your Hand Inside the Buckethead

Bucketheads in Oz, by Greg Gick, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Phyllis Ann Karr, Chuck Sabatos, Deen Shumate, Jim Vander Noot, and Chris Dulabone – While there is a justification for the title in a short scene where two characters accidentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Oz | Tagged buckethead enterprises of oz, bucketheads in oz, chris dulabone, chuck sabatos, conflagra, cowardly lion, deen shumate, effer pheasant the bubble bird, greg gick, greg hunter, harley hammer-head, jim vander noot, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, leotryaton the lazy lion, melody grandy, mombi, osborne austin, oziana, phyllis ann karr, shawn maldonado, tails of the cowardly lion and friends, tekrouri troll, terrence oldshell, the guardian dove, tisha rae the jackalope, wally the woggle-bug |

Zim City

Today’s Oz character is a star in Melody Grandy’s Seven Blue Mountains of Oz trilogy. There are spoilers for these books in the post, and I would definitely recommend reading them if you haven’t yet. They really are good books, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged bleegum, bucketheads in oz, celestia, charles phipps, chris dulabone, dan maryk, david hardenbrook, fern greenleaf, forever in oz, ganalan, green knight, jack, little rooster, maggie, melody grandy, munchkins, noland, oni, ozma, rimmers, rooster, sherlock holmes, spock, that ozzy feeling, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the engagement of ozma, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tippetarius, vega, wam, winkle, zim greenleaf |

Tales of a Considerate Kalidah

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 |

Everybody Walk the Dinosaur

The Land Before Oz, by Marin Xiques and Chris Dulabone – Like some of their other books, this one kind of suffers from too many subplots and too little actual development. It picks up where The Green Goblins of Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Oz | Tagged bignonthaurus, casey, chris dulabone, dinosaurs, dumpsterhead goblin, giants, gypsies, iguanadons, marin elizabeth xiques, ojo in oz, ridiculous rivals in oz, starlight, the giant king of oz, the green goblins of oz, the land before oz, the littlest giant, time travel, yawner goblin |

The Gobble-Uns Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out

The Green Goblins of Oz, by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Chris Dulabone – This is a sequel to Havenly Dreams Beneath Oz, but it was actually published first, so maybe it would be more accurate to call Havenly Dreams a … Continue reading →

Heartbreak Hostel

Havenly Dreams Beneath Oz, by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Chris Dulabone – This book focuses on two goblins from the underground Goblin Grotto who have problems with their home lives. At first the focus is on a female goblin named … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Oz | Tagged chris dulabone, clintonav calloogaderm, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dr. seuss, goblin grotto, havenly dreams beneath oz, horton hears a who, hungry tiger, marin elizabeth xiques, piers anthony, princess ida, raspberry surely, soulae sunchip, tails of the cowardly lion and friends, tin woodman, xanth |

Glinda’s Kin

Glinda, Good Sorceress of the South, is one of the most mysterious characters in the Oz series. We never learn her origins in any canonical book, but the hints we are given suggest that she’s been around for a long … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged allison mcbain, anjoel cycloatlastico, belinda, button-bright, chris dulabone, cora-lee marcus, cory in oz, dennis anfuso, fabia, forbidden fountain, gayelette, gillikins, glinda, gray cardinal, john dee, lozbrarian, malevola, march laumer, marcus mebes, margaret berg, melinda, omby amby, ozma, quadlings, quelala, the emerald city of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the purple prince of oz, the reading tree of oz, the solitary sorceress of oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thoth |

The Return of the Nome King Returns

The most frequently recurring villain in the Oz series is Ruggedo, originally known as Roquat, the former Nome King. I would imagine L. Frank Baum didn’t intend to use him so often, but ended up finding him convenient for several … Continue reading →

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The Real Horses of Oz

L. Frank Baum tells us in a few different books that there are no horses in Oz, aside from the magically animated wooden Sawhorse. This seems to be an idea that he developed over time, however. In The Wonderful Wizard … Continue reading →

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Oz Is Always in the Last Place You Look

Two more book reviews, both Oz-related this time: Finding Oz, by Evan I. Schwartz – On the positive side, this is a pretty lively book that held my attention, and I learned some interesting new things. One thing I particularly … Continue reading →