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Yew and Me

The Enchanted Island of Yew, by L. Frank Baum – This year is the 120th anniversary of this book, and I guess I first read it around thirty years ago. I have the edition Chris Dulabone published, a paperback with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged dragons, fairies, gray men, high ki of twi, james e. haff, king terribus of spor, knooks, kwytoffle, nerle, ozma, prince marvel, red rogue of dawna, ryls, the enchanted island of yew, the life and adventures of santa claus, twi, wizard of oz |

Threadneedle, Frost, Brown, and Smith, Limited

The 1987 Oziana contains four stories, one much shorter than the others, all of which are of the sort that complement the main series. The front cover shows Melody Grandy’s illustration of Robin Olderman’s idea for the Quadling flag. A note … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Characters, Dice, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Pachisi, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill eubank, bill stillman, blankenburg, button-bright, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, chris sterling, cookywitches, dorothy gale, flags, fred meyer, fuddlecumjig, glinda, jack frost, james e. haff, jim vander noot, knit-wits, knitting, laughing valley of hohaho, oziana, parcheesi, peter brown, pirates in oz, polychrome, professor wogglebug, puns, robin olderman, stichwell j. threadneedle, sugarene, the blizzard of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the ice king of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the other searches for the lost princess, the runaway shadows, the two peters, the woggle-bug's new clothes, thumbumbia, tippetarius, tyler tichelaar |

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Oz from the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers, L. Frank Baum included places from his non-Oz fantasies, including the as-yet-unpublished King Rinkitink that would become Rinkitink in Oz two years later.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 →

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It Makes Me Wonder

Stairway to Oz, by Robin Hess – The author once again returns to the Nome Kingdom, an intended invasion of Oz, and transportation gates. It starts with a boy named Ryan Westerly visiting his parents in Colorado, who turn out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain fyter, duke of dork, forever in oz, ix, jack pumpkinhead of oz, james e. haff, joe king, kadj the conjurer, kaliko, nome kingdom, nomes, oogaboo, ozwoz, pirates in oz, queen zixi of ix, robert pattrick, robin hess, scarecrow, shaggy man, stairway to oz, swing city, the spelling bee of oz, the tin woodman and the tin soldier of oz, tin woodman |

The Rest of Nonestica

The International Wizard of Oz Club’s map of the countries surrounding Oz includes a few places, mostly in the southeastern part of the continent (which most likely isn’t technically a continent), that were never directly linked with Oz. They are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cults, Dick Martin, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, arol, aurissau, bilkon, burzee, earl of highlough, fairies, gregory maguire, groves of trom, gump, gurd, hallita, international wizard of oz club, jack frost, james e. haff, junkum, king gruph, king scowleyow, lady lindeva, macvelt, mary ann brodjinsky de la porkus, mary-marie, mother goose in prose, mount mern, mulgravia, old king cole, prince melra, quok, slave of the royal bedstead, the king who changed his mind, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the queen of quok, the runaway shadows, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wizard of aurissau, thumbumbia, tik-tok of oz, whatland, witches, zendik |

Snow Business

I was aware from pretty early on that Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz series after L. Frank Baum, and that illustrator John R. Neill would eventually write his own as well. I don’t think I’d heard of the fourth … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged bzzzantium, cap'n bill, chapter three, father goose, flittermouse, fred meyer, gillikin river, good witch of the north, into the cave, james e. haff, merry go round in oz, over the rainbow to oz, oziana, polychrome, shaggy man, the baum bugle, the crystal people, the magical mimics in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the shaggy man of oz, toto, unexplored territory in oz, who's who in oz |

Mountains of Mystery

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 |

Gillikin Geography

I’ve already written about the other three (four, if you count the Emerald City territory) segments of Oz, and even though I haven’t gotten much if any response to them, I’ve had fun writing them. So here’s the last of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged abra kadabra of oz, adventures in oz, bordermoor, forest of gugu, general quakes, gillikins, glinda of oz, gugu and the kalidahs, handy mandy in oz, hugh pendexter, james e. haff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kimbaloo, king gugu, oziana, pumperdink, regalia, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown |

Southern Hozpitality

Now we turn to the Quadling Country, literally the “little four” country. The name suggests that it’s the fourth of the main Oz countries to be united. It’s probably at least partially inspired by the Southern United States, which explains … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged big enough mountain, bunbury, bunnybury, china country, cowardly lion, cuttenclips, frank joslyn baum, glinda, green mountain, hoppers, horners, james e. haff, jinxland, land of the barons, quadlings, ragbad, scare city, speedy in oz, the blue emperor of oz, the emerald city of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the road to oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, utensia, view-halloo |

Putting the Munchkins on the Map

I found the recent post on Munchkin geography at Hungry Tiger Press, which made me take another look at a rather confusing issue raised by The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Basically, the book mentions that Dr. Pipt‘s mountain borders on … Continue reading →

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