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I Like Birds

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh |

Conflict, Controversy, and Contradiction in Oz

Finally, I’ve been able to read and review some new Oz material! There are some significant spoilers in this post. The Royal Explorers of Oz, Book 4: Into the Wild, by Marcus Mebes and Alejandro Garcia – What was originally … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Semitic, Sexuality | Tagged a wrinkle in time, alejandro garcia, apsu, bewitched in oz, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, carol silva, dagon, fairy wand of oz, glinda, hurray for oz, into the wild, king anko, king ato, laura j. burns, madeleine l'engle, magic below, mermaids, ojo, ozma, paul dana, pearls of pingaree, phanfasms, pingaree, prince inga of pingaree, puff the magic dragon, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, tarara, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal explorers of oz, tiamat, zog |

Use Your Illusion

There’s a fair amount of magic in the Oz series based on illusion, although exactly what that indicates is a little ambiguous. An illusion is a distortion of sensory input, different from a hallucination in that that actually is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Discworld, Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged delusion, glinda of oz, guardian of the muffin tree, hallucination, illusion, invisibility, mombi, mount phantastico, phanfasms, queen of the field-mice, queen zixi of ix, scarecrow, shadow mountain, the emerald city of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the living house of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, transformation, wizard of oz |

Oz Con Artists

I’ve written before about how L. Frank Baum’s position on trickery is somewhat mixed. As someone who had worked as a salesman, he knew the value of a certain amount of balderdash in order to sell things to people. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged bell-snickle, deception, frogman, humbug, kiki aru, kwytoffle, mother goose in prose, nome king, ozma of oz, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wheelers, whimsies, wizard of oz |

Goodhearted and Good Fellowing, We Gaily Go Umbrellowing

The Magic Umbrella of Oz, by Paul Dana – The follow-up to The Law of Oz sees Button-Bright and Ojo further developing their magic, and trying to fight off the nasty Piper who had created the Phanfasms. The Piper recruits … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged button-bright, carl barks, his majesty the nome king, images of oz, j. l. bell, jinnicky saves christmas, lurline, magic umbrella, mrs. yoop, ojo, paul dana, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, scrooge mcduck, shawn maldonado, the law of oz and other stories, the magic umbrella of oz, the ransom of button-bright, tititi-hoochoo, Vaughn Smythe, w. w. denslow, wag, wicked witch of the east |

Mildly Vile

The thing about writing villains for children’s media is that much of the villainy is often implied. Villains make violent threats, but are rarely able to carry them out, for whatever reason. That way they can be seen as evil … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Focus on the Foes, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged billina, king evoldo, nome king, ozma of oz, phanfasms, the emerald city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation |

Nome Invasions

I’ve already discussed the constant invasion attempts of the former Nome King, but this time I’d like to take a closer look at the individual attempts. The first occurs in The Emerald City of Oz, in which King Roquat’s goal … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Magic Items, Oz | Tagged bilbil, captain salt, cinderbutton the witch, clocker, cowardly lion, flying cloak of invisibility, forbidden fountain, forest of gugu, general guph, glegg's box of mixed magic, great book of records, growleywogs, handy mandy, hany mandy in oz, jack snow, kabumpo in oz, kadj the conjurer, kiki aru, l. frank baum, magic belt, nome king, nomes, ozma, peter brown, phanfasms, pigasus, pirates in oz, prince inga of pingaree, pyrzqxgl, ruth plumly thompson, scarecrow, silence stone, standing-stick, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the shaggy man of oz, whimsies, wizard of wutz |

Drifting Off to Dreamland

If you look at the map of the countries surrounding Oz from the endpapers of Tik-Tok of Oz, you’ll notice that the area just to the east (which is left on this map for some reason) of the Growleywogs’ territory … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, Oz, Places | Tagged alexample, castle in the air, charmed gardens of oz, dori, everett avila, growleywogs, john r. neill, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, l. frank baum, maps, march laumer, michael patrick hearn, oziana, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, phanfasms, popla, professor wogglebug, ruth plumly thompson, sandman, sherwood smith, the annotated wizard of oz, the runaway in oz, the tail of the pink goat, tik-tok of oz, trouble under oz, twinkler, whimsies |