Converging Lions

After my recent excursions to some of the more recently published Oz books, I decided to return to the original series and pick up where I left off. I’m now up to the 17th novel in the Oz series, The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson. The novel opens up in one of the many principalities in Oz called Mudge, hidden away within a desert region of the Munchkin country. Mudge’s leader, Mustafa, has been entertaining himself by collecting lions from all over Oz. As the novel opens, he has so...