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Dogged Perseverance

Yankee in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – When I first joined the International Wizard of Oz Club, I was excited to learn that not only did they sell many of the official Oz books I hadn’t read yet, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dick Martin, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Space Program | Tagged aunt doffi, badmannah, crystal balls, dogs, drag net, fern greenleaf, giants, loxo the lucky, moon, ozma, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, slavery, smith and tinker, speedy in oz, su-posy, the seven blue mountains of oz, tidy town, tompy terry, upandup mountain, wackajammy, yankee, yankee in oz, zim greenleaf |

Fact Within Fiction

It’s a strange thing to me that a world presented in a work of fiction can be basically just like ours, except without that work, and often related ones, existing in it, even if it’s very popular in the real … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, becky klein, bob up, button-bright, david hulan, david perry, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, jenny jump, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, marvel comics, nome king, notta bit more, ojo in oz, ozma, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, peter brown, polychrome, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, shaggy man, sky island, spider-man, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius in oz, tompy terry, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, walt mcdougall, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz |

Companimals

Animal companions are a recurring theme in the Oz books, starting with Dorothy’s dog Toto. Kids reading the books were likely used to pets, so it makes sense. Since animals talk in Oz, however, some animal characters are more equal … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, billina, bunnybury, camels, cats, catty corners, chalk, civilization, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, david perry, dogs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka, frogman, glinda, griffins, grumpy, handy mandy in oz, hank the mule, high boy, horses, humpty bumpty, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jim the cab-horse, jonathan andrew manley, kabumpo, keretaria, king skamperoo, nickadoodle, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, nox the ox, ozma, ozma of oz, patch, patchwork girl, percy the personality kid, peter brown, pets, pigasus, pigs, pinny and gig, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, pumperdink, rabbits, seebania, sir hokus of pokes, snif the iffin, snufferbux, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the royal book of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, toto, yankee, yankee in oz, zeb hugson |

Space Dog

Obviously, the Great Outside World in the Oz series is supposed to be OUR world. That doesn’t mean, however, that it doesn’t have occasional differences. In The Road to Oz, Dorothy identifies the closest town to her home as Butterfield, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, History, Oz, Space Program | Tagged butterfield, ham, kansas, laika, nasa, ruth plumly thompson, sputnik 2, tompy terry, yankee, yankee in oz, yuri gagarin |