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I’ll Drink to That

It might be interesting to make a list of all the food and drink in which characters in the Oz books partake, but I’m not going to do that just now. I do, however, want to mention a few drinks … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Food, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged beverages, coca-cola, cut and assemble the emerald city of oz, emeralade, emeralda ozgood, lacasa, land of ev, lemonade, limeade, merry go round in oz, mo, oza-cola, ozade, root beer, soda, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the road to oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz |

Keep on Rockin’ in a Tree World

Trees bearing unusual items are a regular occurrence in the Oz series, so it’s kind of interesting that they weren’t really part of Oz as it was first envisioned. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has fighting trees, but otherwise trees … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, dr. pipt, fighting trees, henry blossom, land of ev, nome king, ozma of oz, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, travelers' trees, trees, wam, zim greenleaf |

Babylon Bound

A book I recently read, Diana Wynne Jones’s Deep Secret, makes heavy use of a nursery rhyme that’s apparently quite common in the United Kingdom, and dates back to at least the nineteenth century. The rhyme is as follows: How … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, History, Judaism, Middle East, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion | Tagged babylon, bible, deep secret, land of ev, psalms, revelation, tower of babel |