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Nome in Your Home
‘Tis the season, so I thought I would reread and review some Christmas-related Oz books. The Enchanted Gnome of Oz, by Greg Hunter – This one is set during Christmas Eve and Day, and it is relevant to the plot, … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Christmas, Dennis Anfuso, Families, Holidays, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged belinda, button-bright, christmas in oz, dragons, elves, emerald city, goblins, greg hunter, handy mandy in oz, jack pumpkinhead, joe bongiorno, julenisse, knooks, magic belt, magic umbrella, mister flint in oz, nisser, nome king, nomes, ozette, ozma, pastoria, paul dana, robin hess, ryls, santa claus, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the enchanted gnome of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, toto and the cats of oz, witches, wizard of oz |
Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked
I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog |
Zeebee and ze Bee
The Spelling Bee of Oz, by Robin Hess – The follow-up to Toto and the Cats of Oz has two new visitors to the fairyland. Elizabeth Warren from California, or Zeebee for short, is captured by the Nome King Korph, … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alexander volkov, crows, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy and the seven-leaf clover, dorothy haas, hip-po-gy-raf, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, magic land, ozma, robin hess, royal timeline of oz, scarecrow, spelling bee, the spelling bee of oz, toto, toto and the cats of oz |
Revising Rinkitink
Last year, there was a contest to write a new ending to Rinkitink in Oz, the goal being to come up with what L. Frank Baum might have written before revising the King Rinkitink manuscript as an Oz book. There’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Names, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, david hulan, joe bongiorno, king rinkitink, oziana, ozma of oz, randy hoffman, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, the lost princess of oz, toto and the cats of oz |
Ozma Seeks Council
As a ruler, Ozma of Oz doesn’t always seem to do much delegating of responsibility. We occasionally see her rushing into dangerous situations on her own, apparently without much thought of what would happen to Oz if she didn’t come … Continue reading →
Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a zen master in oz, aunt em, betsy bobbin, billina, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, cap'n bill, council, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, foolish owl, frogman, glinda, glinda of oz, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kass stone, nome king, ojo, ozma, parliament, patchwork girl, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, robin hess, sawhorse, shaggy man, snif the iffin, the ice king of oz, the martian invasion of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, toto and the cats of oz, trot griffiths, uncle henry, wise donkey, wizard of oz |
Calendar Clues
We don’t know a whole lot about how the Ozian calendar works, but it does appear that the months are the same as ours, as indicated with Jack Pumpkinhead’s tombstones in The Road to Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson was particularly … Continue reading →
Posted in L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged henry blossom, jack pumpkinhead, jeremy steadman, lurline, narnia, nome king, ozzy digest, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince bobo, rinkitink in oz, robert pattrick, robin hess, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, toto and the cats of oz, travelers' trees, tyler jones, unexplored territory in oz, wam, zim greenleaf |
Cats and Dogs Living Together
Toto and the Cats of Oz, by Robin Hess – I remember meeting Robin at an Oz Convention in the late nineties and hearing about this story, so it’s obviously been around for quite a while already, but wasn’t published … Continue reading →
Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cats, christmas in oz, mooj, ojo in oz, ozma, prince bobo, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, santa claus, toto, toto and the cats of oz |