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Ozma of Oz (Oz #3)
Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.
Blown overboard while sail
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Published
1907
by Reilly & Britton
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Still loopy but a tad darker. Again, haven't read this in ages; if anything, I remember it better from the cult classic Return to Oz movie, which made for an interesting comparison.
But this one gives you lots of fun with Dorothy and the delightful queen Ozma, not to mention an intrepid hen given powers of speech by transition to the fairylands, one of the most Grimm's-ian villains yet with the Nome King and his dangerous guessing game, and my deep and abiding favorite Tik-Tok, whose wind-up pers...more
But this one gives you lots of fun with Dorothy and the delightful queen Ozma, not to mention an intrepid hen given powers of speech by transition to the fairylands, one of the most Grimm's-ian villains yet with the Nome King and his dangerous guessing game, and my deep and abiding favorite Tik-Tok, whose wind-up pers...more
This is Baum's third Oz book and the first to feature Dorothy again.
There is a certain folksy idiocy to Dorothy that sees her fresh-eyed naivete outclassed time and again by things like her talking chicken companion, the real heroine of the story, or the wondrous freaks that surround her in her adventures. She's a kid who doesn't really ever save the day by herself, hearkening back to a time when the central characters were often powerless in the face of greater dangers. This reinforced the noti...more
There is a certain folksy idiocy to Dorothy that sees her fresh-eyed naivete outclassed time and again by things like her talking chicken companion, the real heroine of the story, or the wondrous freaks that surround her in her adventures. She's a kid who doesn't really ever save the day by herself, hearkening back to a time when the central characters were often powerless in the face of greater dangers. This reinforced the noti...more
The title is a bit of a misnomer in a way. Ozma might be included in this book, but she's not really the focus at all. Dorothy is back at the helm of the adventure, and maybe this is no coincidence, but the heart of this series seems to have returned as well. Though the lion's share of the plot of Return to Oz came from this book, it's not the worse for it--the book is much less muddled than the movie was, and it's a good, solid adventure.
Once again, a near-tragedy transports Dorothy to a fai...more
Once again, a near-tragedy transports Dorothy to a fai...more
Dorothy Gale is blown overboard when sailing to Australia with her Uncle Henry. She washes ashore with a chicken named Billina on the magical Land of Ev. When Dorothy refuses to trade heads with the dreadful Princess Langwidere, she is locked in a tower to await rescue by her faithful friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, and the Cowardly Lion, as well as several new friends. Ozma(formerly Tip) is among these friends and is on a mission to restore the Royal Family of Ev to their castle. Doro...more
I had no idea that L. Frank Baum had written all of these sequels to the Wizard of Oz. I'm not much a fan of the movie and had never read the book, but my son was doing an Oz project at school and I picked up a condensed version of the Wizard at Target and he got to reading it and really enjoyed it. I noticed a long list of books and we went to the library and checked out Ozma of Oz. I had very low expectations but was delightfully surprised. We've read about 5 of them at this point and they ar...more
It was inevitable that L. Frank Baum's Oz books would run out of steam. I am simply impressed that they lasted past the first books, since the seeming nonsense story lines would only appear to hold up once. Because my kids and I had enjoyed reading the first two Oz books so much, we barreled into this one enthusiastically. And Baum fed our ambitious beginning. However, about half way through we struggled to gain traction, then there was a spurt of interest again before the story sputtered throug...more
May 26, 2012
Zohar - ManOfLaBook.com
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum is the third story in the fictional series taking place in the land of Oz. While certainly not as popular the first story (my thoughts: http://manoflabook.com/wp/?p=47) in the series the rest are very imaginativeas well.
on a vacation from Kansas to Australia, Uncle Henry and his niece Dorothy Gale are caught in a fierce storm which throws Dorothy off the ship. Dorothy finds herself in a crate with Billina, a yellow hen.
As the survivors wash ashore, Dorot...more
on a vacation from Kansas to Australia, Uncle Henry and his niece Dorothy Gale are caught in a fierce storm which throws Dorothy off the ship. Dorothy finds herself in a crate with Billina, a yellow hen.
As the survivors wash ashore, Dorot...more
Several thoughts on this one.
I love how Dorothy is completely resilient, calm, and optimistic in the face of extreme danger. I mean, it's also pretty ridiculous - at the beginning of the book, a storm throws her overboard with nothing but a chicken coop to keep her afloat on the vast ocean, and she is "more amused than frightened at her sudden change of condition," gives "a sigh of regret at parting with Uncle Henry," and promptly goes to sleep. Like, what? Yeah, uh, ok. Still, I really apprecia...more
I love how Dorothy is completely resilient, calm, and optimistic in the face of extreme danger. I mean, it's also pretty ridiculous - at the beginning of the book, a storm throws her overboard with nothing but a chicken coop to keep her afloat on the vast ocean, and she is "more amused than frightened at her sudden change of condition," gives "a sigh of regret at parting with Uncle Henry," and promptly goes to sleep. Like, what? Yeah, uh, ok. Still, I really apprecia...more
This third entry in a popular early 20th century series was satisfying. While I was disappointed to discover that I don't love the Oz books as much as MGM's classic movie from 1939, I enjoy the quirky characters and unexpected adventures of the characters in Baum's series.
Ozma of Oz includes several of the characters we've met in the previous two Oz books - Dorothy Gale & her three now famous friends, as well as Princess Ozma and the Sawhorse from the second Oz adventure. There are also a fe...more
Ozma of Oz includes several of the characters we've met in the previous two Oz books - Dorothy Gale & her three now famous friends, as well as Princess Ozma and the Sawhorse from the second Oz adventure. There are also a fe...more
Ozma of Oz is the third book from L. Frank Baum, and it continues the familiar land of Oz story. It reunites Dorothy with her old friends the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, and as with the last book, Baum also introduces us to a few new characters that play a vital role in the story.
Dorothy and her friends travel to the adjoining Land of Ev, which is currently suffering from the evil King of the Nomes. He seems a likable enough fella, but his true colors are revealed when things don'...more
Dorothy and her friends travel to the adjoining Land of Ev, which is currently suffering from the evil King of the Nomes. He seems a likable enough fella, but his true colors are revealed when things don'...more
I just finished reading Ozma of Oz, third book in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. There was a funny quote near the end. Ozma, speaking to Dorothy, says, "You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them." There are a number of such youths in our country today!
I like the Oz books quite a bit so far, although I was a little distracted by the way Dorothy spoke in this book, leaving out vowels all over the place, pronouncing word...more
I like the Oz books quite a bit so far, although I was a little distracted by the way Dorothy spoke in this book, leaving out vowels all over the place, pronouncing word...more
Shortly into reading Ozma of Oz I started having strange flashbacks. You know those kind of flashbacks when parts of your youth you have forgotten come creeping in and making you think.. did this happen or was it deja vu?
Turns out - it did happen! This book was the biggest influence on Disney's 1985 movie, Return to Oz. I knew the changing heads woman was something I hadn't thought up of on my own!
So, once my curiosity was appeased I settled in to enjoy the wildly fun ride Ozma of Oz gave me. An...more
Turns out - it did happen! This book was the biggest influence on Disney's 1985 movie, Return to Oz. I knew the changing heads woman was something I hadn't thought up of on my own!
So, once my curiosity was appeased I settled in to enjoy the wildly fun ride Ozma of Oz gave me. An...more
I get a mild kick out of the old Baum Oz books, and since they're free on the Kindle, I can get them and read them fairly fast. Anyway, this is the third, and despite the title, Ozma herself is a fairly minor character, allowing Dorothy to take more of the heroic role. The main thing here seems to be allowing the female protagonists of the previous two books, Dorothy and Ozma, to meet and have an adventure together. Oz is a fairly polite land, with explanations given and accepted by one and all....more
While this was still a lovely read, I wasn't quite as taken with it as the first two in the series. A few things - which I freely admit are silly - held me back: the strange accent Dorothy suddenly acquired, with apostrophes and elided vowels everywhere; and lack of continuity, such as when characters suddenly completed certain travels easily, without encountering the problems of the journey in the other books. And overall, the storyline didn't work for me as well as the others.
Still: it had Dor...more
Still: it had Dor...more
Jul 01, 2012
Myles
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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After finishing Out of Oz, I had to read more of the original Oz books. I've heard widely varying reports about the quality of them, but I figured I'd give Ozma a go. And it's a lot of fun, weird and dark. The Nome King is diabolical, lots of gleeful rubbing of hands and entrapment while he lures Ozma, Dorothy and her friends into a awful trap -- all while looking and sounding like Santa Claus.
And if you thought the Kalidahs in The Wizard of Oz were unnerving, just wait until you see Neill's ill...more
And if you thought the Kalidahs in The Wizard of Oz were unnerving, just wait until you see Neill's ill...more
This isn't quite as insane as the previous book's events, but it's still a short, silly read.
Dorothy returns, and brings the sassy hen Billina with her after being hit with a sea storm. On the way to the capital of Ev, she encounters the Wheelers, which are humans with wheels instead of limbs. They're only intend to scare people, since they are weak and want to keep out intruders, but Dorothy, Billina, and the wind-up robot Tik-Tok defuse the situation by agreeing to keep the secret.
They meet up...more
Dorothy returns, and brings the sassy hen Billina with her after being hit with a sea storm. On the way to the capital of Ev, she encounters the Wheelers, which are humans with wheels instead of limbs. They're only intend to scare people, since they are weak and want to keep out intruders, but Dorothy, Billina, and the wind-up robot Tik-Tok defuse the situation by agreeing to keep the secret.
They meet up...more
My 9 year old and I are currenlt reading this book after reading the Wizard of Oz twice. It's amusing but strange how the author made Dorthy's speak with a strange dialect in this book. I do think my favorite characters have been Billina the wise talking chicken and the snooty princess with the 30 different head. A fun book to read with my daughter but since I read Wicked I always look at these books with a skewed eye.
This book does not take place majorly in the land of Oz, but in the land of Ev which is over the deadly dangerous desert. The story is about Dorothy Gale, from the first book in the series, returning to the land of Oz through the land of Ev.
The story has the same whimsical charm that the first two books have that make them children's classic books. Baum is able to create these fantastical creatures and you believe they could exist in these other worlds. In this case he created the Wheelers who...more
The story has the same whimsical charm that the first two books have that make them children's classic books. Baum is able to create these fantastical creatures and you believe they could exist in these other worlds. In this case he created the Wheelers who...more
I picked this one up at the library when I picked up The Wizard of Oz. I had no idea there were so many Oz stories. Baum, I think, wrote fourteen of them; but there are probably more like forty of them out there all written by various authors.
These are all, of course, written for a younger crowd. This one in particular showed up around 1907 and is a very imaginative bit of fiction especially considering the times in which it was written. I'm really surprised that there were no sequels to the ori...more
These are all, of course, written for a younger crowd. This one in particular showed up around 1907 and is a very imaginative bit of fiction especially considering the times in which it was written. I'm really surprised that there were no sequels to the ori...more
The story picks up after the wizard leaves the rule of the Emerald City to the scarecrow.
A young boy, under the rule of a witch, sneaks off to find his adventure with a pumpkin headed doll that is brought to life by the witch. When the boy an pumpkin man flee, the boy takes with him the potion that brought the pumpkin head to life. They meet the scarecrow just as he is overthrown by an army of women who want the jewels in the Emerald City and force the men to take over the domestic jobs.
Eventua...more
A young boy, under the rule of a witch, sneaks off to find his adventure with a pumpkin headed doll that is brought to life by the witch. When the boy an pumpkin man flee, the boy takes with him the potion that brought the pumpkin head to life. They meet the scarecrow just as he is overthrown by an army of women who want the jewels in the Emerald City and force the men to take over the domestic jobs.
Eventua...more
My rating is mostly nostalgic. When I was nine or ten I joined a book club with some girls my age. A parent suggested we read books in the Oz series I was dumbfounded with excitement. Up till then I'd only seen the MGM film. I returned from the club meeting with "Ozma of Oz" in hand, promptly sat down in a large blue armchair in a small back room in my house, and began reading. Lucky for me it was a Friday, so I could stay up later than usual. From 5pm to 10pm I read and read and read (I'm not t...more
Apr 23, 2010
Ab
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fantastically-fantastical,
ya-ness
A pretty good book, with some irritations. I'm starting to realize how young the audience for these books is expected to be -- everything is so disjointed and 'onto the next thing'. They read sort of like vignettes where the whole story connects, but through a meandering of unrelated pieces.
Things I liked about this book:
- A princess who has a thing for swapping out her heads to get a different mood/look, and has a display room of heads to choose from. Weird, but cool.
- An underground gnome kin...more
Things I liked about this book:
- A princess who has a thing for swapping out her heads to get a different mood/look, and has a display room of heads to choose from. Weird, but cool.
- An underground gnome kin...more
After the surprise treat of Baum's second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, I found this third outing a letdown. The humor tended to fall flat and the adventure was ho-hum. It was, of course, deeply weird, but that was about all it going for it.
Baum's oddest conceit: Dorothy is accompanying her aging and ailing Uncle Henry on a trip to Australia. For some reason, this arduous journey is considered a kind of rest cure for poor Uncle Henry. A storm a sea leaves Dorothy washed overboard and adrift in...more
Baum's oddest conceit: Dorothy is accompanying her aging and ailing Uncle Henry on a trip to Australia. For some reason, this arduous journey is considered a kind of rest cure for poor Uncle Henry. A storm a sea leaves Dorothy washed overboard and adrift in...more
Book 3 of the series - Dorothy is on her way to Australia when she's washed overboard during a storm with a hen who all-of-a-sudden can talk. This is her adventures with Tik-Tok through the land of Ev and, with Princess Ozma's help, they save the royal family of Ev from the evil Nome King. A good book. Quick reads they are, but the fantasy and imagination behind them are great. I love to read the letters that Baum wrote the kids at the beginning, explaining how each book came to be (the many let...more
I'm a little amazed that Baum was able to be successful with 14 of these novels considering some of the glaring inconsistencies. One that was especially notable in this story was the Cowardly Lion was still super cowardly, even though he'd become brave in the 1st novel--there was only a VERY slight reference to it... Also, the Wizard's origins have been totally messed with, as were Ozma's. Was Baum inattentive, or really just lazy about checking his previous material (which shouldn't have been t...more
I enjoyed Ozma of Oz for the most part. A lot of this story’s components were used in the movie “Return to Oz” which I really enjoyed as a child. The only thing that bothered me was the voice of Dorothy Gale. Baum seemed to flip flop between a grammatically incorrect almost hick like voice and an proper educated voice. The discrepancy was jarring at times and very distracting. I liked the new character introduced into this story known as the Hungry Tiger who won’t eat because his conscience won’...more
Interestingly, this book probably has the most structured plot of those that I've read so far. It has a clearly defined antagonist with a real conflict that builds up to a climax. I understand why the movie Return to Oz is basically this book but with a few random items stolen from the second book. It had a plot that fit with a movie better. (Don't get me wrong, the movie changed plenty, but they usually do.)
Of course, there are still plenty of side adventures. I love the wheelers. I love the lu...more
Of course, there are still plenty of side adventures. I love the wheelers. I love the lu...more
Strangely enough, I think this is one of my favorite books in the series. It starts off with another Act of God/weather phenomenon. Dorothy is traveling with her Uncle Henry by boat and gets swept overboard during a storm. Her good fortune does not desert her, however, so despite the fact she has only an adrift chicken coop to hang onto and a cranky yellow hen for company, she finds her way back to fairyland to begin her adventure in the Land of Ev, Oz's neighbor.
If anyone is familiar with the s...more
If anyone is familiar with the s...more
dorothy, the cowardly lion, the tin woodman, and the scarecrow were all back along with ozma, the sawhorse, tik-tok, and billina to save the Land of Ev's royalty from the evil nome king.
this was Baum's first book with the intent on continuing the Oz series. It was great.
i thoroughly enjoyed this one. i thought it was better than 'The Marvelous Land of Oz.' i was very interested in how dorothy would fit back into the Oz universe and Baum did not disappoint. It was well paced and each chapter kep...more
this was Baum's first book with the intent on continuing the Oz series. It was great.
i thoroughly enjoyed this one. i thought it was better than 'The Marvelous Land of Oz.' i was very interested in how dorothy would fit back into the Oz universe and Baum did not disappoint. It was well paced and each chapter kep...more
Mar 23, 2013
Matthew
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
middle-grade-fantasy,
ya-fantasy
This is a good book to read if you are interested in a further adventure with Dorothy. A few of the characters from The Marvelous Land of Oz are in there as well. I don't feel like the title was particularly appropriate for the story. I would have gone with The Lawless Land of Ev or Ev and the Nome King. Every character from book one made an appearance in this volume, though I wish Toto had come to Ev with Dorothy. I liked the hen, Bill, though I found it odd that she was able to talk after Toto...more
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Lyman Frank Baum was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stor...more
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“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”
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“I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business."
"Where is your husband?" asked Ozma.
"He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.”
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"Where is your husband?" asked Ozma.
"He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.”
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