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Down on the Farm

Here are a few Oz things I’ve read recently. Dark Wind in Oz, by Tarl Telford – It’s been some time since I read the first two books in the Hidden History of Oz series, but now I’ve finally read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, abby, ages of oz, angela garvey garvey, aunt em, billina, bitty bit, conjo, corwin davison poe, dark wind in oz, dorothy gale, fairies, foiled by the iffin, frogman, gabriel gale, gilbert and sullivan, glinda, glinda's letters to oz, grampa in oz, guardian of the gates, gump, imogene the cow, journal of a journey, king skamperoo, mary rakestraw, mombi, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pastoria, pigasus, role-playing, smith and tinker, sundays at sam's, tarl telford, the computer wizard of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the giant garden of oz, the glinda letters, the hidden history of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, timeline, toto, truth pond, uncle henry, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, yips, zim greenleaf of oz |

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

The 1979 Oziana starts out by saying three stories “seems to be a typical number,” which is generally true, although the previous one had four. The cover illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh shows the Scarecrow in a cornfield, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, geoffrey l. gould, glinda, gloma, greg gick, hank and the scarecrow of oz, hank the mule, horses, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, jim the cab-horse, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, oziana, rob roy macveigh, robert pattrick, ruth berman, scarecrow, school of hard knocks, shaggy man, stephanie hawks, the deadly desert around oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the real critics, the wishing horse of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, zeb hugson |

The Immigrant Post

I was recently thinking about two things that inspired this post. One was how, in the Narnia books, Aslan basically tells the Pevensies they’re too old to keep coming to Narnia. The other is how Oz always appealed to me … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aslan, betsy bobbin, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, hank the mule, immigration, jim the cab-horse, jonathan andrew manley, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, nome king, ozga, ozma, peter brown, sawhorse, shaggy man, the deadly desert around oz, the hidden valley of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, tik-tok of oz, zeb hugson |

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 →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged anuther planet, bitty bit, chalk, chris dulabone, corumbia, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, eloise jarvis mcgraw, emerald city, fred, greg gick, gules, halidom, high boy, horses, jim the cab-horse, joe king, john r. neill, journal of a journey, king skamperoo, l. frank baum, lauren lynn mcgraw, lenith law, mary rakestraw, merry go round in oz, mules, planetty, red jinn, ruth plumly thompson, sawhorse, skampavia, speedy, stampedro, the deadly desert around oz, the giant horse of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thun, view-halloo, voral staff, white city, world's columbian exposition, zeb hugson |