Showing posts with label Button-Bright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Button-Bright. Show all posts
21 January 2025

Two More Oziana Short Stories

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Last week’s posting about a mystery story in Oziana 2024 made me realize I’d never noted Oziana 2023, which contains two of my stories. ...
27 August 2014

Images of Oz Coming Through

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Images of Oz is an eighty-page 6x9 paperback showcasing the Oz illustrations of S. P. Maldonado. It includes an Oz comic that Shawn and...
11 September 2013

A Shirt Is a Terrible Thing to Waist

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Yesterday I quoted L. Frank Baum ’s description in The Patchwork Girl of Oz of a Munchkin boy wearing “a blue ruffled waist.” When I first...
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25 December 2012

Who Brings Dad His Neckties and Stockings?

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The last act of The Road to Oz is basically cross-marketing, with L. Frank Baum bringing in characters from most of the other fantasies ...
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13 November 2012

Sky Island Gets Real

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From artist Willie Real , here’s another interpretation of the protagonists of L. Frank Baum ’s Sky Island . That’s Trot , Button-Bright ...
10 July 2012

What We Can Learn from Tourmaline the Poverty Queen

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L. Frank Baum ’s 1912 fantasy novel Sky Island is one of the themes of the Winkie Convention taking place in California later this month. I...
15 May 2012

“We ought to be friends.”

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From the first chapter of L. Frank Baum ’s Sky Island : The boy sat down beside her on the flat rock. “Do you like girls?” asked Trot...
13 March 2012

One Hundred Years of Sky Island

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This year is the centenary of Sky Island , one of L. Frank Baum ’s very best fantasy novels. It tells the further adventures of Trot and Cap...
02 February 2012

The Second Oz Series

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When L. Frank Baum returned to the Oz series , he had left Dorothy and Ozma in a good place. Too good a place, in fact. Supposedly he was...
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19 April 2011

Oziana 2009 Touches Down at Last

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The issue of Oziana cover-dated 2009 is at last on its way to subscribers, and will be available for ordering from the International Wizard...
10 July 2009

Dorothy Meets Her Match

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From L. Frank Baum's The Road to Oz , the focus of the Winkie Convention that starts today in California. While on a hike that will even...
25 December 2007

Don't I See You Every Christmas Eve?

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The protracted climax of The Road to Oz depicts Princess Ozma’s birthday in Oz. It also gave L. Frank Baum a chance to cross-promote most ...
13 June 2007

Girls Are from Venus, Boys Are from Sky Island

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Here’s a little exchange from the first chapter of Sky Island , L. Frank Baum’s fantasy novel for 1912. Baum had introduced this book's ...
20 November 2006

The Return of Button-Bright

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Button-Bright first appears in the Oz books in The Road to Oz as a little boy, perhaps kindergarten age, who perplexes the Scarecrow and o...
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07 September 2006

The Scarecrow meets Button-Bright

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This passage from The Road to Oz has long been one of my favorite exchanges from L. Frank Baum's books. Even as a little kid, I could e...
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