Showing posts with label BOOK Marvelous Land of Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOOK Marvelous Land of Oz. Show all posts
02 May 2026

Assessing the Ultimate Oz Universe for the Baum Bugle

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The spring 2026 issue of The Baum Bugle contains my review of The Lost Lands , the first volume of the Ultimate Oz Universe graphic retell...
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18 June 2024

The Missing Princess of the Marvelous Land

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I’ve been thinking about how The Marvelous Land of Oz could be more of a mystery. As it is, the book is a roller-coaster ride of political ...
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14 November 2023

“In the Land of Oz they use no money at all”

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In The Road to Oz (1909), L. Frank Baum wrote: “Money! Money in Oz!” cried the Tin Woodman. “What a queer idea! Did you suppose we are so v...
04 April 2022

The Opening of the Emerald City

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My last posting explored the location of the original gateway into the Emerald City, the one Dorothy and her friends use in L. Frank Baum’s ...
02 April 2022

Seeking the Original Gateway into the Emerald City

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For fictive purposes, I’ve been trying to figure out the location of the original gate to the Emerald City and when more gates were added. ...
15 December 2015

Marvelous Land in Minneapolis

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Back in 1981, the Children’s Theatre Company and School of Minneapolis staged a production of L. Frank Baum’s The Marvelous Land of Oz . O...
11 November 2014

“Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron”

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In The Marvelous Land of Oz , L. Frank Baum introduces the character of General Jinjur, leader of an army of girls. She aims to depose the...
11 February 2014

Shirley Temple in Oz

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Shirley Temple was known in her childhood as an Oz fan, mentioning the books in interviews and being photographed with them. Her name was ...
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02 April 2013

“He wasn’t so much of a Wizard as he might have been.”

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This is how Tip, the young hero of L. Frank Baum ’s second Oz book , explains the first to his creation Jack Pumpkinhead: “Where are we g...
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05 December 2012

Glinda as a "respectable sorceress”

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As I wrote yesterday , in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) L. Frank Baum started describing Glinda the Good as a “Sorceress” instead of ...
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04 December 2012

“Baum’s audience sensed a threat”?

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In an essay on witches in The New Yorker last month, Michelle Dean wrote: We’ve always had a good witch to go with the bad, of course. ...
16 October 2012

Theories of the Great Book of Records

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In the third issue of his Ozopolis comic book ( available here ), Kirk Kushin offers a theory about Glinda the Good ’s Great Book of Reco...
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30 May 2012

Reconciling with the Wizard of Oz

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Yesterday I described a review of a latter-day Oz book by Hugh Pendexter III. Among Oz fans he’s best known for his short book Oz and the...
24 January 2012

Developing the Deadly Desert

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The new issue of The Baum Bugle , the International Wizard of Oz Club ’s main journal, includes two articles about the Deadly Desert that su...
27 September 2011

The Darkness of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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Eric Shanower and Skottie Young have reached Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , the fourth title, in their adaptation of L. Frank Baum ’s Oz n...
23 August 2011

Knitting Needles in Oz

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The September/October 2011 issue of Piecework magazine ( current link here , but it won’t last) has the theme of “needlework in literature....
13 November 2009

Let’s Examine That

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I enjoyed the great march of Bill Willingham and (mostly) Mark Buckingham ’s Fables comic to issue #75. In fact, I’ve been planning a “Wil...
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10 September 2009

The Woggle-Bug’s Thorough Command of the Language

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One of L. Frank Baum ’s creations in his second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz , was H.M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. The “H.M.” stood for “highly m...
23 June 2009

Magical Money

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The end of the academic year has brought a bountiful crop of CFPs, or calls for papers. I'm going to feature some of my favorites on Oz ...
09 June 2008

John Dough Cut Up to Make a New Book

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When I started researching John Dough and the Cherub , one of my to-do's was to find a copy of The Gingerbread Man , an "Oz-Man Tal...