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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26 June 2013

“Tottenhots” in the Baum Bugle

The new issue of The Baum Bugle , which arrived today, includes my article “The Troublesome Tottenhots.” It discusses a set of people L. F...

08 January 2013

Prince Bobo’s Place in Nature

This is the frontispiece from Thomas Huxley ’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863). It shows the skeletons of four apes and a hum...

05 December 2012

Glinda as a "respectable sorceress”

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

31 May 2007

He Could Not Play with the Other Boys of Pingaree

Sherwood Smith was commissioned to write Trouble Under Oz as the second in a series of four latter-day Oz adventures assembled by packager...

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