The Land of Oz
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miko2I spent a good portion of last night researching Oz and all the books about Oz. It wasn't as complicated a search as I was expecting.
Everyone is familiar with the first book, of course, because if they've never read it they've at least seen the movie.
I discovered the other books when I was in 7th grade. I checked them out from the library one at a time, and was so consumed by them that I carried them to school and read them during pep rallies and the like. The funny thing about this was that I was horribly embarassed to be reading "children's books", and these were massive hardback versions so I kept trying to hide the covers as I read.
Anyway, they were wonderful. I still love the Oz books, although in many ways it's a very simplistic fantasy world without a lot of the depth you get in other children's fantasy novels (Narnia, Black Cauldron, Wrinkle In Time). But I only read the first 14 books, the ones that L. Frank Baum wrote. I came to realize that there were others out there, but they weren't as easy to find. In some ways, I think I avoided the Ruth Plimly Thompson books because they were only available in trade paperback, not like the nice mass-market paperbacks I had of the first 14. When you're young, stupid stuff like that matters to you for some reason.
But I always wanted to finish my collection and read the other books. At one point I picked up one of the Thompson books at Elliot Bay, with the intention of getting others later... but I never did.
Along the way I've picked up other Oz books... 5 graphic novels by Eric Shanower (not Shandower apparently, I've always got his name wrong too). Two hardbacks of recent novels (with Shanower illustrations) that I bought at Wonderworld (one or both are signed I think). A Barnstormer In Oz, by Philip Jose Farmer, which is not cannonical but a very cool book. Wicked, the story of the wicked witch of the West. At least four of the annual Oz Magazines.
I'd visited Oz web pages before and saw massive lists of books and articles and the like, and got the impression that there were hundreds of Oz books about. Actually, that list probably listed lots of articles and books related to Oz and such... the list of actual Oz story books is smaller, and there's a "Fantastic Forty" book list which is considered to be books by "official" historians of Oz, which really means they were all published by the original publisher. Baum wrote 14, Thompson wrote 16, John R. Neil (who illustrated most of the forty) wrote several, Jack Snow wrote a couple, a few others wrote one or two.
I couldn't find a simple text list to grab, so I had to construct one from various web pages. Here's what I came up with:
1. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1900] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by W. W. Denslow
2. "The Marvelous Land of Oz" [1904] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
3. "Ozma of Oz" [1907] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
4. "Dorothy And The Wizard in Oz" [1908] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
5. "The Road to Oz" [1909?] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
6. "The Emerald City of Oz" [1910] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
7. "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" [1913] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
? "The Little Wizard Stories of Oz" [1913] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
(my guess is this encompassed books 6 and 7?)
8. "Tik-Tok of Oz" [1914] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
9. "The Scarecrow of Oz" [1915] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
10. "Rinkitink in Oz" [1916] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
11. "The Lost Princess of Oz" [1917] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
12. "The Tin Woodman of Oz" [1918] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
13. "The Magic of Oz" [1919] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
14. "Glinda of Oz" [1920] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
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15. "The Royal Book of Oz" [1921] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill
16. "Kabumpo in Oz" [1922] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
17. "The Cowardly Lion of Oz" [1923] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
18. "Grampa in Oz" [1924] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
19. "The Lost King of Oz" [1925] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
20. "The Hungry Tiger of Oz" [1926] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
21. "The Gnome King of Oz" [1927] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
22. "The Giant Horse of Oz" [1928] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
23. "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz" [1929] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
24. "The Yellow Knight of Oz" [1930] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
25. "Pirates in Oz" [1931] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
26. "The Purple Prince of Oz" [1932] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
27. "Ojo in Oz" [1933] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
28. "Speedy in Oz" [1934] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
29. "The Wishing Horse of Oz" [1935] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
30. "Captain Salt in Oz" [1936] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
31. "Handy Mandy in Oz" [1937] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
32. "The Silver Princess in Oz" [1938] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill
33. "Ozoplaning With The Wizard of Oz" [1939] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
"Yankee in Oz" [1972] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustated by Dick Martin
"The Enchanted Island of Oz" [1976] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustated by Dick Martin
34. "The Wonder City of Oz" [1940] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
35. "The Scalawagons of Oz" [1941] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
36. "Lucky Bucky in Oz" [1942] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
37. "The Runaway in Oz" [1943/95] Written by John R. Neill Edited and Illustated by Eric Shanower
38. The Magical Mimics in Oz" [1946] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by Frank Kramer
39. "The Shaggy Man of Oz" [1949] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by Frank Kramer
43. "Who's Who in Oz" [1954] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by J.R.Neill, F.Kramer and "Dirk"
"The Hidden Valley of Oz" [1951] Written by Rachel Cosgrove Illustrated by "Dirk"
"The Wicked Witch of Oz" [1993] Written By Rachel Cosgrove Payes Illustrated by Eric Shanower
41. "Merry-Go-Round in Oz" [1963] Written by E.J. McGraw & L. McGraw Wagner Illustrated by Dick Martin
"The Forbidden Fountain of Oz" [1980] Written by E.J. McGraw & L. McGraw Wagner Illustated by Dick Martin
42. "The Rundelstone in Oz"[2000] Written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Hidden Prince of Oz" [2000] Written by Gina Wickwar Illustrated by Anna-Maria Cool
----------------------------------------(end of royal historian list)
"Paradox in Oz" [1999] Written by Edward Einhorn Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Blue Witch of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Christmas In Oz" [1995] Written by Robin Hess Illustrated by Andrew Hess
"The Dinamonster of Oz" [] Written by Kenneth Gage Baum Illustrated by Gita Moreno
"Dorothy of Oz" [1989] Written by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson) Illustrated by Elizabeth Miles
"The Enchanted Apples of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Father Goose In Oz" [1994] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"The Forgotten Forest of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Hidden Prince of Oz" [2001] Written by Gina Wickwar Illustrated by Anna-Maria Cool
"How The Wizard Came To Oz" [1991] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"How The Wizard Saved Oz" [1996] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"The Ice King of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Mysterious Chronicles of Oz or Tip and the Sawhorse of Oz" [1985] Written by Onyx Madden
"The Secret Island of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Ozmapolitan of Oz" [] By Dick Martin
"Visitors From Oz" [1998] Written by Martin Gardner
It's interesting that some of the Thompson books (and quite a few of the others) are out of print. Amazon lists books for sale used by various book stores, and in many cases the LOWEST price on one of these books is hundreds of dollars -- $450.00 was the lowest offered price for one. The book that I bought at Elliot Bay a few years ago is currently selling for not less than $200.00. Hmmm, that's going to make collecting all of these books difficult, but also kind of a challenge. ^_^
I did order three of her books used, for $5 to $10 each. That's a start.
I spent more money on another book, "Mysterious Chronicles of Oz or Tip and the Sawhorse of Oz". This was written in 1985, and deals with Ozma immediately after the events of "The Land of Oz". In that book, only the second one Baum ever wrote, a young boy named Tip goes on an adventure, but at the end of the book it's discovered that Tip is not meant to be an average boy at all... he is really Ozma, the daughter of the late king of Oz, who's been magically transformed into a boy by the evil witch Mombi. This seems like a curious and odd plot twist for a children's book, and only the second Oz book at that, but in any case Glinda the Good, blithly sidestepping the whole topic of gender identity, explains that it's wrong for Tip, who is really the girl Ozma and the ruler of Oz, to remain a boy. They reverse the spell, and Ozma is a happy girl from then on, throughout all the other books.
So this book, "The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz", deals with Ozma learning to be a girl again, something Baum didn't want to deal with but something that has more story potential than another trip through the land of the Skeezits, or whatever. Of course, the book involves Ozma dressing up in her old clothes and going on another adventure, so maybe it's just another visit with the Skeezits after all. It was written in 1985 and is out of print, but I decided to buy a used copy for.. well, not hundreds of dollars, but at least twice what it probably sold for originally. I'd guess this is a book that won't be placed in print again, so the price would only go up from here.
For the purposes of my possible anime fan fiction crossover story, I wanted to know the rulers of each country in Oz. What I found was:
Ozma rules the Emerald City of course, and all of Oz. This I knew.
Glinda the Good rules the Quadling Country in the South. This I knew.
Nick Chopper (the Tin Woodsman) is Emperor of the Winkie Country. This I knew.
King Cheeriobed and Queen Orin rule in the Munchkin Country. I have no idea who they are.
Joe King and Queen Hyacinth rule in the Gillikin Country. Never heard of them either.
So I need to do some research, and figure out where these other guys come into the story.
And I need more information not just on which color is favored in each country (easy) but what their style of dress is (involves a little research).
Because my current idea is that each magical girl is summoned as a champion of a given realm. Still working out the details beyond that point, but there it is. ^_^
Everyone is familiar with the first book, of course, because if they've never read it they've at least seen the movie.
I discovered the other books when I was in 7th grade. I checked them out from the library one at a time, and was so consumed by them that I carried them to school and read them during pep rallies and the like. The funny thing about this was that I was horribly embarassed to be reading "children's books", and these were massive hardback versions so I kept trying to hide the covers as I read.
Anyway, they were wonderful. I still love the Oz books, although in many ways it's a very simplistic fantasy world without a lot of the depth you get in other children's fantasy novels (Narnia, Black Cauldron, Wrinkle In Time). But I only read the first 14 books, the ones that L. Frank Baum wrote. I came to realize that there were others out there, but they weren't as easy to find. In some ways, I think I avoided the Ruth Plimly Thompson books because they were only available in trade paperback, not like the nice mass-market paperbacks I had of the first 14. When you're young, stupid stuff like that matters to you for some reason.
But I always wanted to finish my collection and read the other books. At one point I picked up one of the Thompson books at Elliot Bay, with the intention of getting others later... but I never did.
Along the way I've picked up other Oz books... 5 graphic novels by Eric Shanower (not Shandower apparently, I've always got his name wrong too). Two hardbacks of recent novels (with Shanower illustrations) that I bought at Wonderworld (one or both are signed I think). A Barnstormer In Oz, by Philip Jose Farmer, which is not cannonical but a very cool book. Wicked, the story of the wicked witch of the West. At least four of the annual Oz Magazines.
I'd visited Oz web pages before and saw massive lists of books and articles and the like, and got the impression that there were hundreds of Oz books about. Actually, that list probably listed lots of articles and books related to Oz and such... the list of actual Oz story books is smaller, and there's a "Fantastic Forty" book list which is considered to be books by "official" historians of Oz, which really means they were all published by the original publisher. Baum wrote 14, Thompson wrote 16, John R. Neil (who illustrated most of the forty) wrote several, Jack Snow wrote a couple, a few others wrote one or two.
I couldn't find a simple text list to grab, so I had to construct one from various web pages. Here's what I came up with:
1. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1900] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by W. W. Denslow
2. "The Marvelous Land of Oz" [1904] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
3. "Ozma of Oz" [1907] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
4. "Dorothy And The Wizard in Oz" [1908] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
5. "The Road to Oz" [1909?] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
6. "The Emerald City of Oz" [1910] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
7. "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" [1913] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
? "The Little Wizard Stories of Oz" [1913] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
(my guess is this encompassed books 6 and 7?)
8. "Tik-Tok of Oz" [1914] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
9. "The Scarecrow of Oz" [1915] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
10. "Rinkitink in Oz" [1916] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
11. "The Lost Princess of Oz" [1917] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
12. "The Tin Woodman of Oz" [1918] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
13. "The Magic of Oz" [1919] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
14. "Glinda of Oz" [1920] Written by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by John R. Neill
-----------------------------------------------
15. "The Royal Book of Oz" [1921] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill
16. "Kabumpo in Oz" [1922] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
17. "The Cowardly Lion of Oz" [1923] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
18. "Grampa in Oz" [1924] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
19. "The Lost King of Oz" [1925] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
20. "The Hungry Tiger of Oz" [1926] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
21. "The Gnome King of Oz" [1927] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
22. "The Giant Horse of Oz" [1928] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
23. "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz" [1929] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
24. "The Yellow Knight of Oz" [1930] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
25. "Pirates in Oz" [1931] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
26. "The Purple Prince of Oz" [1932] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
27. "Ojo in Oz" [1933] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
28. "Speedy in Oz" [1934] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
29. "The Wishing Horse of Oz" [1935] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
30. "Captain Salt in Oz" [1936] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
31. "Handy Mandy in Oz" [1937] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
32. "The Silver Princess in Oz" [1938] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill
33. "Ozoplaning With The Wizard of Oz" [1939] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustrated by John R. Neill-
"Yankee in Oz" [1972] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustated by Dick Martin
"The Enchanted Island of Oz" [1976] Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson Illustated by Dick Martin
34. "The Wonder City of Oz" [1940] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
35. "The Scalawagons of Oz" [1941] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
36. "Lucky Bucky in Oz" [1942] Written & Illustrated by John R. Neill
37. "The Runaway in Oz" [1943/95] Written by John R. Neill Edited and Illustated by Eric Shanower
38. The Magical Mimics in Oz" [1946] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by Frank Kramer
39. "The Shaggy Man of Oz" [1949] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by Frank Kramer
43. "Who's Who in Oz" [1954] Written by Jack Snow Illustrated by J.R.Neill, F.Kramer and "Dirk"
"The Hidden Valley of Oz" [1951] Written by Rachel Cosgrove Illustrated by "Dirk"
"The Wicked Witch of Oz" [1993] Written By Rachel Cosgrove Payes Illustrated by Eric Shanower
41. "Merry-Go-Round in Oz" [1963] Written by E.J. McGraw & L. McGraw Wagner Illustrated by Dick Martin
"The Forbidden Fountain of Oz" [1980] Written by E.J. McGraw & L. McGraw Wagner Illustated by Dick Martin
42. "The Rundelstone in Oz"[2000] Written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Hidden Prince of Oz" [2000] Written by Gina Wickwar Illustrated by Anna-Maria Cool
----------------------------------------(end of royal historian list)
"Paradox in Oz" [1999] Written by Edward Einhorn Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Blue Witch of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Christmas In Oz" [1995] Written by Robin Hess Illustrated by Andrew Hess
"The Dinamonster of Oz" [] Written by Kenneth Gage Baum Illustrated by Gita Moreno
"Dorothy of Oz" [1989] Written by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson) Illustrated by Elizabeth Miles
"The Enchanted Apples of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Father Goose In Oz" [1994] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"The Forgotten Forest of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Hidden Prince of Oz" [2001] Written by Gina Wickwar Illustrated by Anna-Maria Cool
"How The Wizard Came To Oz" [1991] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"How The Wizard Saved Oz" [1996] Written & Illustrated by Donald Abbott
"The Ice King of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"Mysterious Chronicles of Oz or Tip and the Sawhorse of Oz" [1985] Written by Onyx Madden
"The Secret Island of Oz" [1992] Written & Illustrated by Eric Shanower
"The Ozmapolitan of Oz" [] By Dick Martin
"Visitors From Oz" [1998] Written by Martin Gardner
It's interesting that some of the Thompson books (and quite a few of the others) are out of print. Amazon lists books for sale used by various book stores, and in many cases the LOWEST price on one of these books is hundreds of dollars -- $450.00 was the lowest offered price for one. The book that I bought at Elliot Bay a few years ago is currently selling for not less than $200.00. Hmmm, that's going to make collecting all of these books difficult, but also kind of a challenge. ^_^
I did order three of her books used, for $5 to $10 each. That's a start.
I spent more money on another book, "Mysterious Chronicles of Oz or Tip and the Sawhorse of Oz". This was written in 1985, and deals with Ozma immediately after the events of "The Land of Oz". In that book, only the second one Baum ever wrote, a young boy named Tip goes on an adventure, but at the end of the book it's discovered that Tip is not meant to be an average boy at all... he is really Ozma, the daughter of the late king of Oz, who's been magically transformed into a boy by the evil witch Mombi. This seems like a curious and odd plot twist for a children's book, and only the second Oz book at that, but in any case Glinda the Good, blithly sidestepping the whole topic of gender identity, explains that it's wrong for Tip, who is really the girl Ozma and the ruler of Oz, to remain a boy. They reverse the spell, and Ozma is a happy girl from then on, throughout all the other books.
So this book, "The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz", deals with Ozma learning to be a girl again, something Baum didn't want to deal with but something that has more story potential than another trip through the land of the Skeezits, or whatever. Of course, the book involves Ozma dressing up in her old clothes and going on another adventure, so maybe it's just another visit with the Skeezits after all. It was written in 1985 and is out of print, but I decided to buy a used copy for.. well, not hundreds of dollars, but at least twice what it probably sold for originally. I'd guess this is a book that won't be placed in print again, so the price would only go up from here.
For the purposes of my possible anime fan fiction crossover story, I wanted to know the rulers of each country in Oz. What I found was:
Ozma rules the Emerald City of course, and all of Oz. This I knew.
Glinda the Good rules the Quadling Country in the South. This I knew.
Nick Chopper (the Tin Woodsman) is Emperor of the Winkie Country. This I knew.
King Cheeriobed and Queen Orin rule in the Munchkin Country. I have no idea who they are.
Joe King and Queen Hyacinth rule in the Gillikin Country. Never heard of them either.
So I need to do some research, and figure out where these other guys come into the story.
And I need more information not just on which color is favored in each country (easy) but what their style of dress is (involves a little research).
Because my current idea is that each magical girl is summoned as a champion of a given realm. Still working out the details beyond that point, but there it is. ^_^
