Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

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Showing posts with label AUTHOR Booth Tarkington. Show all posts

06 February 2026

Jackie Condon’s Career Before “Our Gang”

Jackie Condon was the youngest player in the first Our Gang movie ever shot in early 1922, establishing the role of the tagalong little brot...

16 May 2025

“The Fauntleroy period had set in”

The hairstyle and costume popularized by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy , as illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, didn’t rema...

29 August 2022

The First Part of “The Donnington Affair”

In 1914, Max Pemberton published part of a murder mystery in a magazine called The Premier . It was titled “The Donnington Affair.” Pembe...

05 February 2013

Parsing the Class Status of Toto and Duke

Dorothy and Toto made a curious cameo appearance in The New Yorker dated 4 February. In a review of books about Richard Nixon, Thomas Mal...

04 June 2006

Penrod and the lamp of real literature

For a change of pace, I just listened to Fat Ollie's Book , by Ed McBain , which contains the entirety of a very rough, very short detec...

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