By 1904, Baum gave in and produced The Marvelous Land of Oz: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz.
Smitten by Oz-mania, they sent impassioned pleas to the author for more stories about Oz. came not from author or illustrator, but from Baum’s young readers. In Through the Looking Glass by Selma Lanes we read that after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “The idea of a continuing series of Oz books. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with excitement, magic and adventure.”īaum was sort of the victim of his own success. Not only does it bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit, but it introduces Dorothy to Ozma, relates Ozma’s first important adventure, and introduces for the first time such famous Oz characters as Tik-Tok, the mechanical man, Billina the hen, the Hungry Tiger, and-The Nome King! Most of the adventures in this book take place outside Oz, in the Land of Ev and the Nome Kingdom. Here it is: “Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happenings as this one. Now I had to break out the handy dandy Who’s Who In Oz by Jack Snow (circa 1988) for the plot summary.
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