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70-570: This is a list of characters in the original Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum . The majority of characters listed here unless noted otherwise have appeared in multiple books under various plotlines. Oz is made up of four divisions that surround the Emerald City in the center. The country as a whole was originally enchanted by a character named Queen Lurline , who is described in the Oz backstory. Additional characters were added in regions surrounding

140-561: A "pink kitten," or sometimes, as in Glinda of Oz (1920), as a "purple kitten." The last third of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz presents her as dishonest, and she is placed on trial for having eaten the smallest of the Nine Tiny Piglets , which was given to Princess Ozma as a pet. Eureka is threatened with execution until the piglet is finally found. Although Eureka ultimately tells them where

210-468: A beautiful young woman who practices Yookoohoo (transformation-only) magic for her own amusement. Reera is interested by his impertinence with her, and Ervic very shrewdly manipulates her into restoring the Adepts to human form, taking quite a bit of time and waiting for her to ask permission to transform them several times. The Adepts are able to assist the raising of the city, and with Coo-ee-oh gone, Lady Aurex

280-552: A buggy being pulled by a cab-horse named Jim when a violent earthquake strikes . A crevice opens in the ground beneath them and they fall deep into the Earth. Dorothy, Eureka, Jim, Zeb, and the buggy land in the underground Land of the Mangaboos, a race of vegetable people who grow on vines. The Mangaboos accuse them of causing the earthquake, which has damaged many of their glass buildings. Just as they are about to be sentenced to death by

350-475: A fire, which is a phenomenon unknown to the Mangaboos. The Sorcerer threatens the Wizard, who responds by cutting him in two, revealing his vegetable nature. The Mangaboo prince gives the Wizard a temporary job as court wizard, but the death sentence is only postponed until a new, native Mangaboo Sorcerer grows ripe enough to serve. Eureka asks for permission to eat one of the piglets, but the Wizard angrily refuses to allow this. The Mangaboo people eventually drive

420-494: A lion collector named King Mustafa seeks to capture him, while he seeks to restore his courage. Dorothy Gale is the main character and adolescent protagonist in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and several sequel Oz books. She is a heroic and sweet-tempered orphan girl from a small farm on the prairies of Kansas . Baum never reveals Dorothy's age, but she is thought to be no older than twelve years old. In appearance she

490-767: A small kingdom, with a prince or princess who saves his or her kingdom and regains the throne or saves Oz from invasion. Thompson wrote two additional novels in the 1970s which are not included in the "Famous Forty": Yankee in Oz (1972) and The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976), both published by the International Wizard of Oz Club . Illustrator John R. Neill's vision of Oz is more manic than Thompson or Baum's. Houses often get up and do battle, and everything can be alive. His entries take Oz's color scheme (blue for Munchkin Country , red for Quadling Country , etc.) to an extreme, extending it to sky and skin colors. Jack Snow

560-473: A train with her to San Francisco to visit her relatives on Hugson farm. While riding with Bill Hugson's nephew Zeb, an earthquake opens a large chasm in the ground, and Eureka falls with Dorothy, Zeb, and Jim the Cab-Horse into the land of the Mangaboos, people made of vegetable. The strange lights in the Mangaboos' cavern create all sorts of odd colors, and Eureka looks pink there. Eureka is then referred to as

630-481: A year after the previous book. The effect of this effort on the quality of the resulting work can only be a matter of speculation; but commentators have noted that this fourth Oz book is darker and more troubling than usual. In it, Baum violates his own standard of leaving out most elements that can disturb or frighten children. "In the first two-thirds of the book, Dorothy and her friends...barely escape from an unrelenting succession of threatening magical countries...." In

700-512: Is a fictional character who first appears in two of Baum's fantasy novels, The Sea Fairies (1911) and Sky Island (1912). Bill was introduced along with his friend Trot; they both later appear in The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) which is the ninth book in the Oz series . Cap'n Bill Weedles is an ex-sailor with a wooden left leg from the knee down. His head is almost bald and what little hair he has

770-801: Is a white rabbit from Bunnybury who first appears in The Emerald City of Oz (1910). He works as the Keeper of the Wicket which is a name given to the Doorman of Bunnybury. He can only admit visitors with an order or letter of introduction from Ozma of Oz or Glinda the Good. When visitors are admitted, Bristle reduces them to the size of a rabbit before letting them into the village itself. Button-Bright (real name: Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith) first appears in

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840-551: Is depicted as a wealthy Munchkin man with a large family who offers Dorothy Gale and Toto shelter after throwing a lavish banquet in Dorothy's honor upon her arrival to the Land of Oz . Boq plays a much larger role in the Wicked books (1995) and the successful Broadway musical of the same name (2003). In Wicked , Boq is a Munchkin who attends Shiz University with Elphaba and Galinda . In

910-560: Is described as having chubby little hands, a round rosy face, big earnest eyes filled with awe and a merry laugh. She has a small pet dog Toto , whom she loves dearly. After her first adventure in the Land of Oz , she returns to Kansas via the charmed Silver Shoes ( Ruby Slippers in the classic MGM musical of 1939 ) she obtained while there but lost between worlds when she was teleported back. Not much later, she unexpectedly returns to Oz again, thus having several more adventures before permanently settling there as an official princess of Oz in

980-400: Is doing, and if Dorothy gives a certain visual hand-signal, Ozma will use her magic belt to transport Dorothy out of danger to the Emerald City. In this way, the travelers are rescued. Soon after renewing his acquaintance with the Emerald City staff and making the acquaintance of Ozma and her courtiers, the Wizard elects to remain in Oz permanently, planning to learn real magic from Glinda

1050-454: Is grizzled. His eyes are pale blue with a gentle look to them, and his face is round, rugged, and bronzed. He has been Trot's companion from birth as he was her mother's star boarder. Formerly he was captain of a schooner with Trot's father as his mate; after losing his leg, the Cap'n retired, and Trot's father was promoted to captain of the same ship. Cap'n Bill and Trot also play significant roles in

1120-507: Is named Queen of the Skeezers by Princess Ozma , and for his valor, Aurex names Ervic her Prime Minister . Eureka is a white kitten who is introduced in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908). She is found by Uncle Henry who gives her the name Eureka, which means "I have found it!" Henry then gives the cat to his niece Dorothy making the cat her pet. Dorothy carries Eureka in a small birdcage on

1190-491: Is no use of money on Pyramid Mountain, he does accept Dorothy's blue bow. In The Road to Oz (1909), the Braided Man appears to have made it back to the surface as he was among the guests at Princess Ozma's birthday party. His present to Princess Ozma is the finest Flutters that he has made. The Braided Man appears in the 1985 film Return to Oz . He made a background appearance at the coronation of Princess Ozma. Bristle

1260-632: Is not bothered by his lack of a heart). Nimmie Amee agreed to marry him, but on the day of their wedding, a storm rose up, and the rain rusted Fyter so badly that he was frozen in place along a little used forest path. There he stood for years until he was discovered by the Tin Woodman , the Scarecrow , Woot the Wanderer, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter . Once lubricated and restored to life, Fyter accompanies

1330-599: Is not directed at children, and contains adult language and content. It is the basis for the Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman . Alexander Volkov was a Russian novelist who published his own series of Oz novels called the Magic Land books, for readers in Soviet Russia, China and East Germany. His first book, published in 1939, was a translation and adaptation of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , but

1400-512: Is not the land where the adventures take place, but the land the characters are seeking as a refuge from adventure. Dorothy Gale is gladly joining her Uncle Henry in California to visit relatives who live at Hugson's Ranch, after their vacation from Australia in Ozma of Oz . Dorothy meets Hugson's nephew who is her second cousin, Zeb of Hugson's Ranch . Dorothy, Eureka (her cat) and Zeb are riding

1470-453: Is often considered one of Baum's strongest male characters (as the author's male characters often tend to be ineffectual). When Queen Coo-ee-oh launches her submarine attack on the Flatheads, Ervic is one of the young men in her flagship. The Flatheads quickly dispatch with Coo-ee-oh, as they simply wanted revenge on her personally, but as she is the only one who knows the magic to get back to

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1540-512: Is rather clear. Though unlike the Woggle-Bug, Frogman is not thoroughly educated and is much more interested in dandy fashion . He accidentally bathes in the Truth Pond and is thereafter magically compelled to speak only the truth. In The Magic of Oz (1919), Frogman is among the guests at Princess Ozma's birthday party. In 1986, March Laumer made him, with the proper name Frederick Fraukx,

1610-445: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and around the time Baum moved to California, the book starts with an earthquake in California. Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into a cavern, where they begin their adventures. Very little of the story—six of the twenty chapters—actually takes place in Oz. As in Ozma of Oz before it, and in some of the books after, Oz

1680-511: The Land of Oz . In the sequel Oz books, he is often the main character in subplots that deal with him getting lost and being found again. In the non-canon stories of March Laumer , Button-Bright is depicted as an adult and married to Glinda . In the Dorothy Must Die multi-volume series, he is married to Polychrome. Button-Bright appears in the 1985 film Return to Oz in the background at Princess Ozma's coronation. Cap'n Bill Weedles

1750-492: The Oz canon originally established by L. Frank Baum . The novel presents events, characters and situations from Baum's books and the film in new ways, with several differences between the L. Frank Baum series and the Wicked Cycle. These differences arise from the original Oz functioning as a mirror-image of Kansas in a cultural and economic framework: Oz was wealthy, prosperous and had excellent agricultural yields while Kansas

1820-626: The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman as he is in search of courage. At the end of the book, he becomes King of the Beasts in the dark forest in Oz's southern quadrant called Quadling Country , though this is rarely brought up in later Oz books. In the sequels, he appears in minor roles as Ozma's bodyguard and beast of burden, along with the Hungry Tiger . In Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923),

1890-738: The Wicked Witch of the West surfaced. Gayelette was featured in Roger S. Baum's Dorothy of Oz (1989) where she was the boss of the Jester before he became possessed by the Wicked Witch of the West's ghost. 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 . Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum , who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. Baum

1960-592: The 1909 book The Road to Oz . When Button-Bright first appears, he is shown as a little boy who answers most questions with "Don't know." In the story Button's head is temporarily changed into a fox 's head by King Dox of Foxville; upon arriving in the Land of Oz, Billina and Tik-Tok took Button-Bright to the Truth Pond so that he could regain his head. He later makes an appearance at Princess Ozma 's birthday party. Baum brought Button-Bright back for his 1912 novel Sky Island , where he encounters Trot and Cap'n Bill for

2030-503: The Cherub . Following Baum's death, publisher Reilly & Lee continued publishing annual Oz books, selecting new Royal Historians to record the latest Oz doings. These books, together with Baum's original fourteen novels, form the "Famous Forty", and are considered the canonical books of the series. Ruth Plumly Thompson's style was markedly different from Baum's. Her tales harked back to more traditional fairy tales . She often included

2100-675: The Cookie Cook is a character who appears in the book The Lost Princess of Oz (1917). She is a Yip, a resident of a remote plateau in Oz who is noted for the delicious cookies she bakes in her diamond-studded gold dishpan. Cayke knows that the dishpan has magic powers; she admits to the Frogman that without it she is a poor cook, and her cookies are "pretty poor stuff and no better than any woman could make who does not own [her] diamond-studded gold dishpan." However, she has no idea that her magic dishpan can carry its occupants anywhere they desire to go. Ugu

2170-624: The Gargoyles are frightened by loud noises. However, the travelers are soon out of breath and unable to make more noise, so the Gargoyles capture them. After recuperating from the fight, the travelers manage to escape, and enter another tunnel. After a close encounter with a family of baby dragons, they find themselves trapped in a cave with no exit. The Wizard, Zeb, and the animals all fear that they will die of thirst, but Dorothy reveals that she has an arrangement with Princess Ozma: each day at four o'clock, Ozma uses her magic picture to see what Dorothy

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2240-437: The Land of Oz (beyond the deserts) as the series progressed. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry appear in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). They are Dorothy Gale 's guardian aunt and uncle. They live a joyless and gray life on a small farm on the prairies of Kansas . Neither of them believe their niece when she tells them she has been to the Land of Oz ; they consider her a mere dreamer, as her dead mother had been. This changes when

2310-562: The Mangaboos, a hot air balloon descends, and in the basket is the former Wizard of Oz , whom Dorothy last saw as he floated away into the sky from the Emerald City at the end of the earlier book The Wizard of Oz . The Wizard demonstrates his (humbug) magic powers in a contest with the Mangaboo Sorcerer, first, by "conjuring" nine tiny, mouse-sized piglets (actually taking them from his pocket by sleight-of-hand), and then, by lighting

2380-575: The Tin Woodman left his beloved Nimmie Amee after losing his heart (as he felt he could not love her), Fyter, a member of the Munchkin army, met and fell in love with her when he found her crying over her lost love. Unfortunately, she was a ward to the Wicked Witch of the East, who made Fyter's sword do what the Woodman's axe did and cut off his limbs, which Ku-Klip the tin smith replaced with tin limbs (although Fyter

2450-670: The Wise Donkey serve as public advisors. She first appears in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) where Patchwork Girl, Ojo, and Glass Cat stop by the office of the Foolish Owl and the Wise Donkey where they knew about their current mission. The Frogman is a human-sized frog who appears as a character who is first introduced in The Lost Princess of Oz (1917). He was once an ordinary frog and his similarity to Professor Woggle-Bug

2520-550: The bears, the travelers move on. The companions climb Pyramid Mountain, and meet the Braided Man, a manufacturer of holes, flutters (guaranteed to make any flag flutter on a windless day), and rustles for silk dresses. After exchanging gifts with him, the travelers continue upwards into the Land of the Gargoyles , where everything is made of wood, including the gargoyles, which are hostile, silent, flying monsters. The travelers are able, at first, to repel their attack successfully because

2590-582: The book The Emerald City of Oz (1910). Dr. Pipt is sometimes called the Crooked Magician. He first appears in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913). He is so crooked that his legs are nearly as handy as his arms. When he sits, one knee is under his chin and the other behind his back. Dr. Pipt lives in the Munchkin Country with his wife Margolotte. He is notable for creating the Patchwork Girl (who

2660-423: The book series, Betsy arrives to Oz from Oklahoma with a mule named Hank, and she is shown as a constant companion of both Dorothy and Trot in the later books. In The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), she is said to be one year older than Dorothy Gale. Betsy is more passive than Dorothy, and in one book she is described as shy. Betsy was later made a Princess of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson , and she also appears as

2730-411: The canonical Oz texts. In addition to the canonical Oz books, several of Baum's works that are not Oz stories are nevertheless nominally set in the same fictional universe as the Oz books, and include several character crossovers. These are: Queen Zixi of Ix , The Magical Monarch of Mo , The Sea Fairies , Sky Island , The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus , and John Dough and

2800-531: The company of the Wizard, "Dorothy is a helpless little girl, given no opportunity to show her resourcefulness." When Oz is finally reached, it is a bland "goody-goody place" with few positive events to offer. As events unfold in The Marvelous Land of Oz , we find that when the Wizard of Oz first came to Oz, he had Mombi the Witch hide Ozma, the true heir to the Land of Oz, so that he could rule. In Dorothy and

2870-472: The conclusion of Ozma of Oz, Billina chooses to stay in Oz and live in the Emerald City 's royal palace, later becoming the matriarch of a large colony of chicks. She is a major character in Walt Disney's 1985 live-action film Return to Oz , in which she helps Dorothy save the Land of Oz from near extinction. Boq is a minor character who appears in the beginning of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). He

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2940-481: The court's attention, and does not try to prove her innocence until the trial is over. After the piglet is returned to Ozma, and Zeb and Jim decide they've had enough of fairyland. Ozma then uses the Magic Belt to send Dorothy and Eureka back to Kansas, and Zeb and Jim back to California. Four years passed between the first and second Oz books (1900-4), and three between the second and third (1904-7). By 1907, however, it

3010-507: The diamond-studded gold dishpan has been passed down in her family, from her mother and all of her grandmothers since the beginning of time; but its origin is never disclosed. Cayke makes a brief appearance in Jeff Freedman's 1994 novel The Magic Dishpan of Oz (her dishpan plays a much greater role there). The China Princess is a delicate and beautiful figurine made of china who appears in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). She lives in

3080-439: The first time. In this novel he is shown to be older and more verbal. Button reveals that he is from Philadelphia, and that his real name is Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith. He was given the nickname "Button-Bright" by his parents as his name is rather long, and because they think that he is "bright as a button". In The Scarecrow of Oz (1915), Button-Bright becomes the first American to accidentally emigrate to

3150-553: The further books that he wrote in the 1960s and 70s were entirely Volkov's invention. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz (1907). He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales. Written shortly after

3220-461: The good witch. He demonstrates his piglet-trick in a magic show, and gives one of the piglets to Ozma as a pet. The others stay for an extended visit, whose highlights include a race between the wooden Saw-Horse and Jim, which the Sawhorse wins. Eureka is accused of eating Ozma's pet piglet. In fact, Eureka is innocent and the piglet is alive and well, but the obstinate Eureka enjoys being the center of

3290-564: The group of adventurers on their quest to find Nimmie Amee, intending to fulfill his vow of marriage (although he is willing to give her up if she chooses the Woodman over him). When they finally find her, she is happily married to Chopfyt, the assembled and combined "meat" parts of the two men. Finding Nimmie Amee happily married, they return to the Emerald City where Captain Fyter joins the Royal Army of Oz. Eventually, Ozma sends Fyter to keep order among

3360-519: The inconsistency of Eureka's color. Eureka appears in the 2017 series Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz voiced by Kari Wahlgren . She is a resident of Purrville who becomes friends with the Cowardly Lion . Evoldo is the late king of the Land of Ev , a monarchy across the Deadly Desert from Oz . He is discussed and pictured in Ozma of Oz (1907), but has died before the adventure takes place. Evoldo

3430-525: The later Oz books The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), The Magic of Oz (1919) and Jack Snow's The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946). Baum borrowed from one of his own earlier characters, Naboth Perkins in Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (1906), to create Cap'n Bill. Cap'n Bill appears in the 1985 film Return to Oz , in the background at Princess Ozma's coronation, holding the Magic Flower. Cayke

3500-457: The musical adaptation (but not in Baum's or Gregory Maguire 's books), Boq becomes the Tin Woodman . In the musical's two-part film adaptation (2024–2025), his character arc is expanded upon, complete with him being given a surname, Woodsman. The Braided Man is a bent-over old man with his hair and beard in braids who lives halfway up Pyramid Mountain. He is a great inventor who used to live on

3570-546: The piglet is, she is amused at being tried for something that is in her nature to attempt. Eureka returns with Dorothy to Kansas, but is later found living in Oz with no explanation of how she returned. Eureka may be conniving and deceitful, but overall she has a good heart. Eureka plays a significant supporting role in Dick Martin's 1986 novel The Ozmapolitan of Oz , and she is the heroine of Chris Dulabone's The Colorful Kitten of Oz (1990) which, among other things, addresses

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3640-483: The plateau where the Yips live and travels the general land of Oz to find it. This trip makes her the first Yip to leave the plateau. Though the Frogman joins her, she was prepared to go alone, showing her courage and determination. Cayke is a relatively simple woman, but she is honest except when the truth will hurt someone's feelings, and seems to be generally good natured, if a little ill-tempered at times. According to Cayke,

3710-453: The protagonist of Thompson's The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926) in which she helps a young prince from an Evian kingdom called Rash regain his throne from a wicked uncle. Billina is Dorothy's pet hen on the Kansas farm and first appears in the book Ozma of Oz (1907), in which she saves the citizens of Oz from being turned into decor objects by the evil Nome King . She is sassy and talkative; at

3780-536: The role of Royal Historian. Ruth Plumly Thompson took up the task in 1921, and wrote nineteen Oz books. After Thompson, Reilly & Lee published seven more books in the series: three by John R. Neill , two by Jack Snow , one by Rachel R.C. Payes , and a final book by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw. The forty books in Reilly & Lee's Oz series are called "the Famous Forty" by fans, and are considered

3850-525: The series; in her initial appearances her hair was colored as blonde, strawberry blonde or light brown. Later appearances depicted her as brunette or with auburn hair. Betsy first appears in Baum's 1913 stage play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , and then in his 1914 novel Tik-Tok of Oz (partly a novelization of the play), wherein she teams up with the Shaggy Man and together they go to the Nome King 's Caverns. In

3920-416: The shoemaker steals Cayke's dishpan and uses it to kidnap Ozma and steal all the magic in the Land of Oz . When Cayke discovers her dishpan has gone missing, she is greatly distressed, and causes quite a fuss by wailing and screaming. After the Frogman, who is thought to be extremely wise by all of the Yips, tells her that the dishpan has been stolen by someone outside of the country of the Yips, she leaves

3990-502: The submerged city, the young men sit in the boat, unsure what to do. Ervic is approached by the Three Adepts at Magic who are stranded in the form of fish. They wish him to catch them in a bucket and to follow their instructions, and that if he does so, he will save himself, his city, and his companions. They help him get the boat to shore and have him carry the bucket to Reera the Red. Reera is

4060-449: The surface of the Earth where he worked with holes until a big one caused him to fall deep underground where he landed on Pyramid Mountain and lived on its spiral staircase since. Since then, he has amused himself by making Flutters and Rustlers. He first appears in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) where he meets Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz when they arrive at his cave and he gives them some of his products. While he states that there

4130-569: The tiny hidden enclave called "Dainty China Country" in the Quadling Country of the Land of Oz . She, like all the other china people, cannot leave their enclave or they will become lifeless and stiff. The China Princess appears in the 2013 film Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return voiced by Megan Hilty . The Cowardly Lion is a talking lion who lives in the Land of Oz . He appears in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and becomes one of Dorothy Gale 's first companions in Oz, joining her and

4200-541: The title character of The Frogman of Oz: The Oz Book for 1947 , along with a U.S. Navy frogman . The Frogman is a crucial character in Jeff Freedman's 1994 novel The Magic Dishpan of Oz . The Frogman appears in the 1985 film Return to Oz . He is seen in the background at the coronation of Princess Ozma. Captain Fyter the Tin Soldier is a character who is first introduced in The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918). After

4270-475: The travelers out of their country into a dark tunnel, which leads to another kingdom. They pass through the tunnel into a beautiful green valley. They enter a seemingly empty cottage and are welcomed by invisible people, for they have entered the Valley of Voe, whose inhabitants are able to remain invisible by eating a magic fruit, and use their invisibility to hide from marauding bears. In order to avoid being eaten by

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4340-413: The two later face foreclosure on their farm. Dorothy arranges with Princess Ozma to bring them to Oz, so that they can escape their bleak fates and be safe and finally content. Eventually, in The Emerald City of Oz (1910), they move permanently to Oz and take up jobs there. Betsy Bobbin is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum 's Land of Oz . Betsy is portrayed with various hair colors throughout

4410-488: The wild inhabitants of the unknown areas of the Gillikin Country. Gayelette was an ancient princess and sorceress who lived in a ruby palace in the northern quadrant called Gillikin Country of the Land of Oz , introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). She was the original owner and creator of the charmed Golden Cap which had a curse cast upon it that compelled the creatures called Winged monkeys long before

4480-532: Was a Baum scholar, and even offered to take over the series at age twelve when Baum died. Snow's books lack any characters created by Thompson or Neill, although he did create his own. The Expeditioneers, as they call themselves, learn the meanings of these fortunes as they progress through an Art Colony, a Game Preserve, and a long and complex subterranean journey. Some are in line with the originals, while others deviate in various ways. Below are some books that deal with alternate versions of Oz, which do not follow

4550-557: Was a cruel despot ; after purchasing Tik-Tok , the clockwork man, and giving him his name, Evoldo sold his wife and ten children (five boys, five girls) to the Nome King in exchange for a long life. Later, regretting this bargain, he locked Tik-Tok in a stone chamber and committed suicide by jumping into the Nonestic Ocean . The Foolish Owl is a great blue owl that lives in Munchkin Country and speaks in nonsense poetry. She and

4620-472: Was characterized by economic hardship, environmental difficulties and poor harvests. The social strife described in The Wicked Years indicates that the two series are set in similar and internally consistent but distinctly separate visions of Oz. The novel focuses on the life of the Wicked Witch of the West , whom Maguire gives the name Elphaba . Unlike the popular 1939 movie and Baum's writings, this novel

4690-420: Was clear to Baum and to his publisher, Reilly & Britton , that the Oz books were more popular and sold better than any of Baum's other works. After 1907's Ozma of Oz, Baum devoted more of his energies to Oz. A 1906 contract between Baum and his publisher called for new Oz books at two-year intervals between 1907 and 1911. In fact, Baum accelerated this schedule, producing Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz only

4760-410: Was created by Dr. Pipt's wife, Margolotte) and the Glass Cat . Dr. Pipt also invented the Powder of Life (although in the 1904 novel The Marvelous Land of Oz this invention is credited to another crooked magician named Dr. Nikidik). In an article in the Spring 1965 issue of The Baum Bugle , Lee Speth argues that Nikidik faked his death in the earlier book, to assume a new identity as Pipt. He

4830-465: Was deprived of his magic abilities by Glinda for doing magic without a permit. Glinda also straightened his crooked limbs. In The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), Dr. Pipt assists Ojo and Unc Nunkie in a search party that is organized to find Princess Ozma. Dr. Pipt appears in the 2017 series Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz voiced by J. P. Karliak . Ervic is a major character in Glinda of Oz (1920). Displaying "courage, cleverness, and ingenuity," Ervic

4900-423: 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. 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 . After Baum's death in 1919, publisher Reilly & Lee continued to produce annual Oz books, passing on

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