Showing posts with label L. Frank Baum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L. Frank Baum. Show all posts
11 July 2023

Contents of The Characters of Oz

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Last week I introduced The Characters of Oz , a collection of essays that I contributed to, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi. Since I don’t...
28 August 2018

The Shift from Woodman to Woodsman

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One of the attractions at OzCon earlier this month was a showing of James Ortiz’s The Woodsman , produced in New York in 2015 . It was a str...
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13 July 2010

How Much Can Change in Two Years

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Eric Gjovaag’s Wonderful Blog of Oz notes an Ozzy challenge on Jeopardy last night, and notes that the “answer” was inaccurately worded in...
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17 October 2009

Five Observations on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Comic

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As Eric Shanower and Skottie Young ’s comics adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz continues its sojourn on the hardcover “graphic nov...
25 July 2007

Who You Gonna Call?

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Last month New York-based schoolteacher Monica Edinger blogged about her unit on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . In addition to Baum's orig...
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23 July 2007

Constabulary Notes from All Over

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From a story by Michael Jones in the 20 July Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pennsylvania: McDONALD - Follow the yellow-striped road throu...
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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 ...
29 May 2007

Meeting John Dough and the Cherub

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Hungry Tiger Press has just announced the publication of its centennial edition of John Dough and the Cherub , written by L. Frank Baum and...
07 May 2007

New Way to Read The Wizard of Oz

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Looking for Oz content, I'm taking a tip from Blair Frodelius's Ozmapolitan update and highlighting this unusual version of The Wond...
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07 April 2007

The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman

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These days, most Americans know L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as the source for the 1939 MGM movie musical, but...
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26 March 2007

Would You Like Big Staring Eyes with That?

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McDonald's® has started to sell Madame Alexander® Wizard of Oz® figurines, inspired by the MGM movie, as premiums in its Happy Meals® . ...
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12 March 2007

Selig Wizard of Oz and More

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Displaying her prowess as a multimedia resource expert, Betsy Bird at Fuse #8 devoted her latest “Video Sunday” roundup to cinematic version...
21 February 2007

"Bold Take" on Oz Coming to Chicago Stage

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Scott Cummings has spread the word about The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz , a new adaptation of Baum's novel by Phillip C. Klapperich...
16 January 2007

Living to Tell the Sea Fairies Tale

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It's been a while since I posted something Baumian, and even longer since I simply quoted a choice passage from one of L. Frank Baum...
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05 January 2007

"You have to draw the gopher fairies!"

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At various times in his writing, L. Frank Baum described animals fairies who share the shape of the creatures they look after, just as his m...
04 January 2007

What Makes the Gopher So Discontented?

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Baum's story for The Discontented Gopher is a tale with a clear, even obvious moral. It starts with three gopher brothers choosing nuts...
03 January 2007

The Discontented Gopher in Book Form

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Back in November, I described hearing about a "New Baum Picture Book" called The Discontented Gopher . Having now received a copy...
29 November 2006

Baum's 150th in The Baum Bugle

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The latest issue of The Baum Bugle is the Int'l Wizard of Oz Club 's tribute to L. Frank Baum, the author who created Oz, during h...
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27 November 2006

New Baum Picture Book

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The South Dakota State Historical Society is publishing a new picture book based on L. Frank Baum's short story "The Discontented ...
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16 October 2006

Analyzing All Forty-Plus Oz Books

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For ten years, starting in 1997, Oz fans on successive email lists called the Ozzy Digest, Nonestica, and (currently) Regalia have discusse...
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