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Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

I don’t think I’ve ever really written specifically about the birds in the Oz series, and there are quite a few of them. When Dorothy first arrives in Oz, she sees “birds with rare and brilliant plumage” in the Munchkin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged balloon bird, balloon island, banana bird, barrel birds, birds, birds of paradise, bob up, bobolinks, captain salt, captain salt in oz, chapter three, chickens, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ducks, flittermouse, foolish owl, garden of eden, gluckbird, gooch, grand mo-gull, gulls, hummingbirds, hurrah birds, hurrah's nest, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jalapomp, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lake orizon, lonesome duck, lucky bucky in oz, nickadoodle, notta bit more, orks, owls, oziana, patch, peli-cans, percy vere, peter brown, pirates in oz, policeman bluejay, reedbirds, rocs, roger the read bird, russet meagle, scissor bird, skyle of un, snif the iffin, stork scissors, storks, the cowardly lion of oz, the curious cruise of captain santa, the giant horse of oz, the little gingerbread man, the lost king of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, zazagooch |

A House Full of Ginger

Gingerbread houses are a well-known Christmas tradition, not that I’ve ever seen anyone actually make one. They’re a pretty cool idea, though. The idea of objects made of foodstuffs is an old one in legends throughout the world, especially when … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Authors, Characters, Christmas, England, Fairy Tales, Food, Germany, History, Holidays, Jasper Fforde, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Nursery Crime, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a. baldwin sloane, architecture, brothers grimm, candy, gingerbread, gingerbread houses, gingerbread men, hansel and gretel, john dough, john dough and the cherub, johnny gingerbread, kolobok, pancakes, queen elizabeth i, the gingerbread man, the little gingerbread man, the wizard of oz, witches |

Let’s Get Baked

Ruth Plumly Thompson was known to have brought several of her original creations from short stories and poems into the Oz world, including Pumperdink, Sun Top Mountain, the Land of Patch, and the Forgetful Poet. This raises the question as … Continue reading →

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