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I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire – The books in this series change between being about the magical lands in which various children find themselves and about how they deal with their experiences afterwards. As with some … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Toys, Wayward Children | Tagged a.s. byatt, andrew lang, arabian nights, avalon, bible, blaise, brothers grimm, cugel the clever, cugel's saga, dragon's breath, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, epitaph, geoffrey of monmouth, gode's story, graeae, guinevere, howl's moving castle, in an absent dream, jack vance, jane yolen, jinn, johnny gruelle, king arthur, king solomon, lost in the moment and found, merlin, merlin's booke, moon, nimue, prince prigio, queen of sheba, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, st. paul, sword of the rightful king, the canterbury tales, the djinn in the nightingale's eye, the dragon's boy, the dying earth, the eldest princess, the glass coffin, the magical land of noom, the raggedys in oz, the sword and the stone, the young merlin trilogy, three thousand years of longing, wizards |

It Payes to Have Personality

Hiya, kiddos! I’ve done some more rereading recently, so today I’ll be going over the Oz work of Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the fifth official Royal Historian of Oz. The Hidden Valley of Oz – The next-to-last in what I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged adventures in oz, betsy bobbin, bookville, collapsible kite, cowardly lion, dirk gringhuis, dorothy gale, equinots, flicker, flowers, giants, guardian of the muffin tree, guinea pigs, henry blossom, herbertha the herb lady, hidden valley, hungry tiger, icetown, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jessamine, jonathan andrew manley, kenneth gage baum, kites, kizzo, lake lavendra, leon the neon, leopard with the changing spots, leopards, nome king, oz-story magazine, oziana, ozma, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, pinny and gig, rats, reilly & lee, rocket trip to oz, scarecrow, shrinking violets, singra, snowmen, spots in oz, terp the terrible, the blue emperor of oz, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ice king of oz, the raggedys in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, violetta, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yankee in oz |

Ask the Flowers to Tell You

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and Tuesdays are my designated days for writing about Oz, although it doesn’t always work out that way. Since I had something more pressing to write about yesterday, I’m going to look at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ray Powell, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, burzee, chloris, fairies, favonius, flora, floralia, flower fairies, flowers, grampa in oz, immortals, karpos, king of the ryls, knooks, nelebel's fairyland, nymphs, ozga, prince marvel, prince of the ryls, rose kingdom, ryls, santa claus, tanko-mankie, the dummy that lived, the enchanted island of yew, the enchanted types, the gardener's boy of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the raggedys in oz, the road to oz, the ryl, the ryl of the lilies, the vegetable man of oz, the yellow ryl, tik-tok of oz, urtha, zephyrus |

The Patchwork Map of Oz

One of the tropes I came across on TV Tropes for the Land of Oz is that of the Patchwork Map, which definitely applies to Oz and the surrounding nations. A dry desert surrounds the entire nation, even though this … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ak, burzee, captain salt in oz, cookry land, david hulan, fairyland, great wilderness of braz, james haff, jelly bean island, king king double king, king kojo, laughing valley of hohaho, lost islands, merryland, mo, nonestic ocean, patchwork map, ray powell, rolantic ocean, royal baking powder company, santa claus, sissajig, tarara, the crescent moon over tarara, the curious cruise of captain santa, the flask with the golden stopper, the kingdom of boxtoes and hammerheels, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little prince and the faithful bluebird, the magical monarch of mo, the princess of plumpieland!, the princess of whereyouwill, the raggedys in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the seeress of saucerville, the singing tailor of nevermindwhere, the story of the first brown-haired princess, the toothache of the sultan, the wizard of way-up, the wizard of way-up and king ripitik the tenth, tik-tok of oz, trina robbins, tv tropes, way-up |

No Passing Zon

Mister Flint in Oz, by Ray Powell – I’d been wanting to read this one for a while now, and I finally got a chance to purchase it on eBay a few weeks ago. Written in 1969, it stars Hardas … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dorothy and the wizard in oz, mister flint in oz, pastoria, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the raggedys in oz, wizard of oz, zon |