They meet Princess Ozma, who is in Ev to attempt to save Ev's royal family from the evil Nome King, and finally return to Oz. They land in Ev, a country across the desert from Oz, where they encounter the wheelers and make a new friend, the mechanical man Tik-Tok. While traveling to Australia with her Uncle Henry, Dorothy is swept overboard with a hen named Billina. Tip ends up on an adventure with the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to help Scarecrow recapture his throne from General Jinjur's army of girls. It was originally written as a one-shot book).Ī little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o'-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to life with the magic Powder of Life Tip stole from Mombi), as well as a living Sawhorse (created from the same powder). (Also reprinted by various publishers under the names The New Wizard of Oz and The Wizard of Oz with occasional minor changes in the text. The ruler of Oz, the great Wizard, who resides in an Emerald City, may be the only one powerful enough to help her. But all Dorothy really wants to know is how she can return home. Upon her arrival, she is hailed as a sorceress, liberates a living Scarecrow, meets a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly Lion. Frank BaumĪ little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get swept away into the Land of Oz by a Kansas cyclone.

Frank Baum Oz books The original Oz books by L. In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph.īooks by L. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as 'the Royal Historian of Oz' in order to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place on Earth, full of magic. All of Baum's books are in the public domain in the United States. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. For a list of adaptations of The Wizard of Oz through other media, see Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz.

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