Monatsarchive: April 2017

The Scarecrow Of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the ninth book of the Oz series. Cap’n Bill and Trot, who have already appeared in “The Sea Fairies” and “Sky Island”, now find their way to the enchanted lands in the neighborhood of Oz. They are involved in several dangerous adventures, but with the help of the Scarecrow and the Ork, a strange bird without feathers and with a propeller for a tail, they conquer the King of Jinxland and put the lovely princess Gloria on the throne. Finally they join Ozma and Dorothy in the Emerald City, which seems to be getting rather crowded with earth people because of Ozma’s generosity.

The Scarecrow Of Oz

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Tik-Tok of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the eighth book of the Oz series. Queen Ann of Oogaboo, a minute kingdom at the northeastern tip of Oz, sets out to conquer the world with her army of sixteen officers and one private. Although she does not succeed in this ambitious endeavor, she and her army do help the Shaggy Man to rescue his long-lost brother from the Nome King, by whom he has been imprisoned. The Shaggy Man and his comrades from the Emerald City find themselves in all kinds of difficulties, and so Ozma sends Tik-Tok to help them. We are introduced to a newcomer to Oz, Betsy Bobbin, a little girl from Oklahoma who arrives in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Patchwork Girl of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the seventh book of the Oz series. The Patchwork Girl is one of the most delightful of the stories. The most important new character is Miss Scraps Patches, the patchwork girl herself, who is only a large stuffed doll, but very much alive thanks to the magic Powder of Life, and very brainy, because her stuffing has been well dosed with a part of the contents of all the bottles on the shelf labeled “Brain Furniture” . Then there is the Woozy, a strange little animal “all squares and flat surfaces and edges”, who isn’t very important except for the three hairs at the end of his tail; his … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Emerald City of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the sixth book of the Oz series. Because of financial difficulties, Dorothy’s Uncle Henry has lost his farm in Kansas, and so Dorothy decides to accept Ozma’s oft-repeated invitation to live in Oz permanently. Ozma transports Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to the Emerald City, and they too become residents of this wonderful fairy-land. Just about this time, Ozma and her people are threatened by the wicked Nome King who attempts to invade Oz and destroy the land. All ends well, but Ozma decides that, to protect her country from any possible uninvited guests in the future, Oz should from this time on be invisible to all those who … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Road to Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the fifth book of the Oz series. There are a many roads converging at the same place, so that Dorothy and the Shaggy Man, who brushes his hair and beard in the wrong direction so as to look even more shaggy, are not at all sure which one to take. They finally start out along the seventh road because “seven is a lucky number for little girls named Dorothy”, and this eventually takes them into the enchanted domains of Oz. On the way, they meet Button-Bright, a lost little boy from Philadelphia, and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s daughter, also lost because she danced too far over the arc of the Rainbow … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is is the fourth part of the Oz series. Dorothy has previously come to Oz via air and water; this time, with the help of an earthquake, she takes an intra-terrestrial route. The Wizard, who has also fallen through the same great crack in the earth, appears here for the first time since he floated off in a balloon, as described in The Wizard of Oz. He joins forces with Dorothy, her California cousin Zeb, and Jim, an old cab horse, and together they encounter many adventures before arriving safely in the Emerald City. Ozma invites the unemployed Wizard to remain in Oz and be the “Official Wizard” of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Ozma of Oz – L. Frank Baum

In this third part of the Oz series, Dorothy, the heroine of The Wizard of Oz, appears again. She finds her way to Oz after falling overboard during a storm at sea on her way to Australia with Uncle Henry. Among other marvelous creatures, she meets Tik-Tok, a machine man who can do only what he is wound up to do; his thought, speech and action mechanisms work separately, and each must be properly wound. There is also the Hungry Tiger, who is a “disgracefully bad tiger” because his conscience doesn’t allow him to eat fat babies, much as he would like to do this. When Dorothy arrives at the Emerald City she … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Marvelous Land of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This second Oz story brings us further adventures of the Scarecrow (who has succeeded the Wizard as ruler of Oz) and the Tin Woodman. Furthermore we are introduced to some delightful new characters, including Jack Pumpkinhead, the Saw-Horse and the Gump, all of whom have been animated by the magic Powder of Life. We also meet Professor H. M. Woggle bug, T. E. (both Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated), who because of his inescapable erudition later becomes the Dean of the Royal College of Oz. There are some exciting moments during which the Scarecrow is overthrown by an army of revolutionary girls, but in the end Princess Ozma, the rightful ruler … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz – L. Frank Baum

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies. One day the house is caught up in a cyclone and carried into the land of the Munchkins, who send her to find the great wizard of Oz, in the city of Emeralds. The adventures that follow belong right into the treasure chest of American childrens’ literature.

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Format: Paperback.

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

ISBN: 9783849692766

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Plot of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (from Wikipedia):

Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a Kansas farm. One … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...