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Flittering Away

Scan by Jared Davis The 1990 Oziana is a professional issue, in that all the authors and illustrators actually do that for a living. Most of them had appeared in Oziana before this, and one of these stories was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, amazing stories, birds, bucketheads in oz, bungle the glass cat, bzzzantium, cats, chapter three, dorothy gale, doves, fess, flittermouse, frogman, hungry tiger, in a season of calm weather, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, merry go round in oz, nine tiny piglets, nome king, oziana, Pablo Picasso, percy the personality kid, peter pan, professor wogglebug, rats, ray bradbury, robin brown, russet meagle, terrence oldshell, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the guardian dove, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, troth, truth pond, virginia woolf, wendy darling, woot the wanderer |

Everybody Gets a Crown

Someone recently asked me whether Betsy Bobbin and Trot were ever made princesses within the Oz series. L. Frank Baum never gives them this title, and neither does Ruth Plumly Thompson in her earlier books, but she does in later … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged a princess of oz, betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin in yartralia, bucky jones, cap'n joe weedles, david hulan, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, evered of rash, handy mandy in oz, jenny jump, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kaliko, king cheeriobed, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, peter brown, prince philador, princes, princesses, queen dolly of merryland, quick city, robin brown, roundabout, scarecrow, sky island, speedy, speedy in oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, tippetarius in oz, trot griffiths |

Free Ride, Whee Ride, Spree Ride, Glee Ride

The latest issue of The Baum Bugle has an article by David Maxine about Eloise Jarvis McGraw’s writing process for Merry Go Round in Oz, one of the most tightly plotted books in the Oz series. Indeed, it’s so well … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Gender, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged chapter three, circlets of halidom, david maxine, halidom, humpy the dummy, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jubulut, kabumpo in oz, merry go round, merry go round in oz, mombi, over the rainbow to oz, oziana, ozma, pastoria, robin brown, robin hess, robin olderman, roundabout, ruth berman, sir greves, the baum bugle, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the wishing horse of oz, wizard of oz |

A Pauper, on the Other Hand, Is Ruling, Strong and Wise

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s three companions all end up as rulers: the Scarecrow of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman of the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion of the Quadling Forest. In later books, only Nick … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aurex, cap'n joe weedles, chick the cherub, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dragons, emerald city, glinda of oz, halidom, handy mandy in oz, happy toko, hiland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, kaliko, king timothy of noland, loland, merry go round in oz, mombi, mother goose in prose, nifflepok, noland, nome king, old king cole, ozma, pastoria, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, queen coo-ee-oh, queen rosalie, queen tourmaline, queen zixi of ix, quilties, quox, robin brown, roundabout, scarecrow, silver island, silver mountain, sir greves, skeezers, sky island, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the royal book of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, whatland, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog |

Do Come Orphan On Again

Is there any significant narrative reason for Dorothy to be an orphan living with her aunt and uncle? It’s often the case that someone not living with their parents leads to a later reveal, about how they’re the child of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Fairy Tales, Harry Potter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars | Tagged aunt em, betsy bobbin, bob up, button-bright, dorothy gale, jenny jump, orphans, ozma of oz, peter brown, robin brown, speedy, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, uncle henry |

The Wizard of Oz and the Wizard of England

The Arthurian legends have had a profound effect on British fantasy, and some of that has carried over to the United States as well. Merlin, especially, seems to make a lot of appearances in recent fantasy fiction, having been everything … Continue reading →

Posted in British, Characters, Harry Potter, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz | Tagged gina wickwar, john dough and the cherub, king arthur, king richard coeur de leon, kinglet of phreex, margaret berg, merlin, merry go round in oz, morgan le fay, nebbie, ozma, pastoria, piers anthony, robin brown, ruth plumly thompson, sir gareth, sir hokus of pokes, sonny burns, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, toto of oz, wizard of oz, xanth |