Showing posts with label Trot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trot. Show all posts
30 July 2019

Sea Fairies and Sea Sirens

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Sea Sirens is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee. It’s subtitled A Trot & Cap’n Bill Adventure , and the ba...
16 September 2014

Breakfast in Oz

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Perhaps L. Frank Baum’s biggest strength (and occasional weakness) as a writer was in how he exhibited all of his characters’ different ou...
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07 March 2013

Of Witches and Women

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At Film.com, Elisabeth Rappe offers an essay titled “Why ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Is a Major Step Back for Witches and Women.” It buil...
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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 ...
30 October 2012

“A terrible storm”

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The opening paragraphs of Ozma of Oz , by L. Frank Baum : The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across ...
24 July 2012

“I’ve the right to make new laws, haven’t I?”

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For the last two Tuesdays I’ve been following L. Frank Baum ’s discussion of governance in the Pink Country in Sky Island . What Polychrome ...
17 July 2012

Queen by the Color of Her Skin

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A week ago , I quoted the passage from Sky Island in which L. Frank Baum revealed how the Queen of the Pink Country must live in poverty i...
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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