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Everything But the Kitchen Sink in Oz

It often seems to be the case that people who read Oz books by authors other than L. Frank Baum when they were young accept them as official, while those who read them later are a little more wary of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged continuity, famous forty, fanfiction, james thurber, joe bongiorno, maud gage baum, mrs. yoop, nome king, oz vs authors, patrick maund, robert pattrick, royal timeline of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, unexplored territory in oz |

Everything’s Coming Up Ojo

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, L. Frank Baum introduces his fourth boy protagonist to the Oz series, Ojo the Unlucky. He’s not really a stereotypically boyish boy, but instead rather solemn and insecure, with a tendency to break out … Continue reading →

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