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Literal, hundreds of people, from tiny youngsters to
mature readers, have asked me “What is Oz—where did L. Frank
Baum get the word Oz?”
I have wondered about this myself—certainly never was a
more magic word ever invented—and have searched many sources
for an answer.
It seems there are a number of answers. First, simply because
it has received the widest circulation and acceptance, is the
theory that one day, back in 1899, while he had the idea of THE
WonderFUL WIZARD OF Oz on his mind, Baum was using a filing
cabinet. The rear tier of papers was marked from “O" to “Z”.
From this, some would have us believe, Baum got the word “Oz".
But for me that explanation is a little too glib and much too
prosaic.
Although I did not meet Baum during his life-time, I feel I
have spent many years in his company through his books and a
careful study of his personal life and times. I don't think Baum's
mind worked the filing cabinet way. He was a great lover of
Dickens. Could not he have been fascinated by Dickens' pen-
name, Boz? Couldn't he have simply dropped the “B”, which for
him stood for Baum, and used the remaining “oz" for the name
of his own personal wonderland?
Best of all, I like to believe that Baum found the word “Oz" in
the following fashion: in his foreword to one of his early books,
A New Wonderland, Baum wrote that for as long as he could


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remember he had been thrilled and captivated by tales that caused
the reader to exclaim with “Ohs” and “Ahs” of wonder.
Oz can be pronounced either “Ohs” or “Ahs".
This is explanation enough for me. Oz came—not out of an
office filing cabinet—but right out of wonderland and leads right
into another wonderland.
JACK SNow.
This book is dedicated
in grateful friendship to
HORATIO P BAUM


PAGE
PREFACE: What Is Oz? - vii
INFORMAL INTRODUCTIONs to over six hundred and thirty Oz Char-
acters—people, animals and creatures—with hints on the
parts they play in the thirty-nine Oz books 3
APPENDICES:
Story highlights of the thirty-nine Oz books published from
1900 to 1951 (in order of publication):
The Wizard of Oz and The Land of Oz 253
Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Road
to Oz 254
The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz and
Tik-Tok of Oz 255
The Scarecrow of Oz and Rinkitink in Oz 256
The Lost Princess of Oz, The Tin Woodman of Oz and
The Magic of Oz 257
Glinda of Oz, The Royal Book of Oz and Kabumpo in Oz 258
The Cowardly Lion of Oz and Grampa in Oz 259
The Lost King of Oz, The Hungry Tiger of Oz and
The Gnome King of Oz 260
The Giant Horse of Oz, Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz and
The Yellow Knight of Oz 261
Pirates in Oz and The Purple Prince of Oz 262
Ojo in Oz, Speedy in Oz and The Wishing Horse of Oz 263

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CONTENTS
APPENDICES:
Story highlights of the thirty-nine Oz books published from
1900 to 1951—continued
Captain Salt in Oz, Handy Mandy in Oz and The Silver
Princess in Oz
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz and The Wonder City
of Oz
The Scalawagons of Oz, Lucky Bucky in Oz and
The Magical Mimics in Oz
The Shaggy Man of Oz and The Hidden Valley of Oz
Biographical sketches of the authors and illustrators
of the Thirty-nine Oz books:
L. Frank Baum
W. W. Denslow
John R. Neill
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Jack Snow
Frank Kramer
Rachel R. Cosgrove
“Dirk" [Dirk Gringhuis]
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is for ADVENTURE. Any Oz book is your round-
trip ticket to adventure. You can travel
through strange lands with any of the hundreds of
fascinating Oz folks. Read about them in
this book—then pick your adventure!
An “ox FAN' FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH A
One who has tasted high adventure in all four countries
of Oz and is now a registered Citizen of the Land of Oz.

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A-B-Sea Serpent
A curious snake-like creature, whose body consists of
alphabet blocks, and whose tongue is a tape measure. With his old
friend, the Rattlesnake, the A-B-Sea Serpent once vacationed in Oz.
The Royal Book of Oz, p. 30 (T)*
:}; The page number following the title of the book (for example, “p. 30,"
above) tells you where each character first appears in Oz history. (B), (T), (N),
(S), and (C) stand for the author of the book whose title they follow: Baum,
Thompson, Neill, Snow and Cosgrove. -

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Abrog
For many years Abrog served as royal prophet of
Perhaps City in the Maybe Mountains of the Winkie Country of Oz.
Then one day he announced that the Princess Pretty Good would be
married to a monster within four days unless someone else married
her immediately. He suggested himself as the ideal bridegroom. King
Peer refused, saying that Abrog was only trying to fulfill his own pro-
phecy. Abrog disappeared and so did Pretty Good. He is next heard
from as Gorba, the wizard. (see GoRBA.) Grampa in Oz, p. 98 (T)
Addie
The royal serpent of the Red Jinn of the Land of Ev
is an adding adder. Unlike most adders, Addie never
adds up to trouble. The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 156 (T)
Adora
The Queen of the Kingdom of Doorways in the Munch-
kin Country of Oz is of small credit to royalty. She should change her
name to Ajara, because she jars so many peoples' nerves. Then her sub-
jects could make a bad joke, like “When is Adora not Adora? When
she's Ajara, silly!" The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 80 (T)


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Known as Tattypoo's amiable dragon, Agnes turned
out not to be a dragon at all, but the victim of one of old Mombi's
wicked transformations. She now is one of the most amiable and at-
tractive young ladies in the court of Queen Orin of the Ozure Isles in
the Munchkin Country. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 106. (T)
Akbad
Because Akbad did what he thought was best—even
though his deeds could be considered wrong—some peo-
ple might call him a realist. Once soothsayer in the court
º of King Cheeoriobed of the Ozure Isles, he is no longer
§ occupying that exalted position. And he has nothing
at all to say—soothing or otherwise. The Giant Horse of
Oz, p. 24. (T)
Alberif, Prince of Peaks, and his people, are yodeling islanders. Sea-
farers, except those who are deaf, usually steer a wide course around
Peakenspire. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 183. (T)



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º º ** Ann Gora
This young unicorn is the favorite lady-in-waiting to
Queen Roganda of Unicorners in the Munchkin Country. Ann Gora is
very pretty, as unicorns go, but we feel we'd rather go away from Ann
Gora, her bad temper, and her sharp horn. Ojo in Oz, p. 238. (T)
The young Queen of Oogaboo, a tiny country in a far
corner of Oz, still reflects on her ill-fated venture to conquer the world.
Queen Ann Soforth once set forth with a ridiculous army of sixteen of-
ficers and one private soldier, confident that no one could resist her
might. After many adventures and even more hardships, Queen Ann
was content to return with her bedraggled army to quiet little Oogaboo,
where she reigns peacefully, happy to be a big frog in a small pool,
rather than a small frog in a big pool. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 13. (B) 6
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Atmoſ Fere
The sky man of Oz is a balloonish sort of
person who lives high above the clouds in the strato-
sphere above Oz. With the help of a pair of iron boots,


Atmos Fere descended to the bottom of the atmosphere. He intended
to seize Ozma and take her to his sky kingdom, to prove to the rest
of the air people that beings really live at the bottom, as well as the
top, of the air. But Ozma had a pin and used it. (These air people
think of the bottom of the air, in which we live, as we do about the
bottom of the sea.) The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 182. (T)
Ato is the eighth king of the Octagon Isles in the No-
nestic Ocean, across the Deadly Desert from Oz. His people once re-
volted and foolishly followed the Nome King in an attempt to conquer
Oz. Later, Ato became a cook on Captain Salt's pirate ship. He liked
the life so well that, even though he has now won back his kingdom, he
spends six months of the year sailing the Nonestic Ocean and cooking
for Captain Salt and his crew. Pirates in Oz, p. 71. (T)
~ N Audah Aujah and Aurah
>~3 N The three Adepts (at sorcery) are beautiful young
women who now rule the people once known as Flat-
heads, in the wild mountainous region of the Gillikin
Country. Many years ago, the three Adepts came to the
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and try to help those backward people in the use of their canned
brains. All went well until Coo-ee-oh, wicked witch-queen of the
neighboring Skeezers, transformed the Adepts into three fish and threw
them into the lake which surrounds the magic island of the Skeezers.
Excitement and magic came thick and fast before the three Adepts
regained their human shapes and resumed their rule of the folk once
known as Flatheads. Glinda of Oz, p. 184. (B)
Aunt Em
Princess Dorothy's beloved aunt now lives in the Royal
Palace in the Emerald City. Although there is nothing magical about
her, Aunt Em is a great favorite of the Oz people. She is loved for her
homespun goodness, her sense of humor, and her never-ending wonder
and admiration for all the marvelous people and amazing happenings
in the Land of Oz. The Wizard of Oz, p. 4. (B)



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is for BAUM [Lyman Frank]. The first and by far the
greatest Royal Historian of Oz, he is its
discoverer. Had it not been for L. Frank Baum, we would
know nothing at all about Oz
An “oz Fan' FRIEND whose NAME BEG ins witH ‘B’ “
One of L. Frank Baum's faithful and appreciative read-
ers, who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land of Oz.

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noisy town, where the police carry batons instead of night sticks, and
the trolley cars hum Strauss waltzes. The Nome King of Oz, p. 199 (T)
Bangladore
It used to be that giants ate people. But, in the case of
Bangladore, who lives in the Winkie Country, it is the other way
round. Folks try to eat him, for he is made of a most superior grade of
taffy. (Perhaps pulling him made him the giant he is!) The Royal Book
of Oz, p. 154. (T)
Barber of Raſh
2 ~ 7 The barber once made a hair-breadth escape from the
Kingdom of Rash, in the Land of Ev, and found his way to the City of
Down Town, below the surface of Ev. He now spends his days giving
the money-changers of Down Town close shaves and clippings. The
Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 84. (T)
Barrel Bird
N othing much is known about this bird, except that he
appears to have lost his feathers and modestly flies about in a barrel. It
would seem that he had been sky-larking and had flown too high!
Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 19. (N)



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Belfaygor of Bourne
The Lord of the Baron Lands of the ſº
Quadling Country once had an enchanted beard which ſº * \m
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grew enormously. (The thought occurs that the barber/ º
of Rash could have grown fabulously rich if he had
known Belfaygor!) To add to his troubles. Belfaygor was
angry with Baron Mogodore—but that's a whole story
in itself. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 85. (T)
~
e’ Bell Snickle
º This curious creature is a mystery—and he knows it.
º
| In fact, Bell Snickle is so proud of being a mystery that
º º he won't tolerate any other mysteries around him. Once, s
º ſ º he caused a great commotion in Oz, when he "snickled" -
º around the Wizard's Scalawagons, only succeeding in D
º piling one mystery on another. The Scalawagons of Oz, º
* p. 41. (N) ~
Benny |-
A stone statue of a Public Benefactor—a
man known for his good deeds—once stood in a public
square in Boston. The statue magically came to life and
found its way to Oz, where it soon made friends and
was nicknamed Benny. Benny may have a heart of stone, - -
but it is of the soft variety—warm and sympathetic. The S-2
Giant Horse of Oz, p. 47. (T)










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Betsy is a little girl from Oklahoma, just about the same
age as Princess Dorothy. She was shipwrecked and, with her faithful
friend Hank the Mule, had many adventures which finally ended hap-
pily in the Emerald City. Ozma invited Betsy to make her home in
the Royal Palace, so that Dorothy might have a companion her own
age. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 39. (B)
Bhookuſ
This servant of the Duke of Dork lives on a floating
castle-island in the Nonestic Ocean. Since Breakfast, the “bananny”
goat, came to Dork, Bhookus has very little to do—and he does it nicely!
Pirates in Oz, p. 188. (T)
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The King of Bear Center in the Winkie Country is a
handsome toy bear. Like all his subjects, the Big Lavender Bear is
stuffed with a fine grade of hair. He also possesses a mite of magic, by
means of which he aided Cayke the Cookie Cook in finding her lost
magic dishpan. Too, he helped Dorothy and her searching party in
their hunt to find the lost Ozma. The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 204. (B)





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Bilbil -
A long time ago, Prince Bobo of Boboland was trans-
formed into a goat by a wicked magician. As Bilbil the Goat, the prince
fled from his native land and became the friend and companion of King º'
Rinkitink, who had no idea the surly goat was enchanted. It took all the
skill of the world's most powerful sorceress, Glinda the Good, backed
by the magic of the Wizard of Oz, to restore Prince Bobo to his natural
form. King Rinkitink and Prince Bobo have become so fond of each
other that the former Bilbil now makes his home in Rinkitink's royal
castle. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 35. (B)
An iron weathercock perched atop a barn near Chicago, sº
Bill came to life suddenly during an electric storm. He jº
flew blindly in the terrible gale until he landed in the
Quadling Country. Here he embarked with Grampa and
Prince Tatters on a succession of lively adventures.
Grampa in Oz, p. 43. (T)
Billina
When Dorothy was traveling with her Uncle Henry to
Australia, a storm came up at sea, and she was washed overboard. With
her went a chicken coop and one sadly bedraggled yellow hen. The
hen, whom Dorothy named Billina, proved to be a wise and faithful
companion through a series of startling adventures in the Land of Ev
and the Nome Kingdom. Now, Billina is a famous personage and has
hatched many little chicks, all of whom she names either Dorothy or
Daniel. Ozma of Oz, p. 24. (B)
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Bini Aru
A Hyup who lives on Mount Munch in the Munchkin
Country, Bini was once a clever sorcerer. When Ozma proclaimed that
the practice of magic in Oz was forbidden to all except Glinda the
Good and the Wizard, Bini stopped practicing his magical arts at once
and destroyed many of his wizard's tools. He kept only one charm, a
magic word (“Pyrzqxgl”) which he had invented. Bini wrote down this
magic word and how to pronounce it and hid the paper under the floor
of his home. (Although the magic word has long since been discovered,
no one in the United States or any part of the great outside world has
managed to pronounce it correctly.) The Magic of Oz, p. 18. (B)
Binx
Binx is one of the pirates who plotted with the Nome
King to conquer Oz. But soon they had the wind taken
out of their sails. Pirates in Oz, p. 61. (T)
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In Stratovania, high in the stratosphere over Oz, Bittsy-
wittle serves airy dishes and light refreshments to the high-and-mighty
royalty of this rarified realm. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, p.
103. (T)

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Bitty Bit
The Seer of Some Summit is one of the wisest and most
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agreeable men in, or out, of Oz. Ozma was so impressed with him that
she invited him to make his home in the Emerald City. But Bitty Bit
preferred his homey brown castle, perched on a crag overlooking the -º
Nonestic Ocean. Very likely he is still there. The Wishing Horse of Oz,
p. 226. (T)
º º Blank of Blankenberg
º º * These people, who live underground in the
*** * * * . sº Gillikin Country, are called Blanks because they
have neither faces nor heads; they appear to be ani-
mated collections of clothing walking about. For many
years, they held captive Pastoria, the Lost King of Oz,
º * º, and forced him to act as their tailor. The Lost King of
\'s, Gº Oz, p. 175. (T)
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Keeper of the volcano that erupts underground in the
Land of Ev, the sullen Blazes is too hot a subject to write about at
length; we would need asbestos paper to handle him properly. Gramp
in Oz, p. 144. (T)
Blink
A lovable little Winkie man, Blink is the caretaker of
Sº the Scarecrow's corn-ear castle in the Winkie Country, not far from the
* Tin Woodman's tin palace. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 60. (T)









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Bini Aru
A Hyup who lives on Mount Munch in the Munchkin
Country, Bini was once a clever sorcerer. When Ozma proclaimed that
the practice of magic in Oz was forbidden to all except Glinda the
Good and the Wizard, Bini stopped practicing his magical arts at once
and destroyed many of his wizard's tools. He kept only one charm, a
magic word (“Pyrzqxgl”) which he had invented. Bini wrote down this
magic word and how to pronounce it and hid the paper under the floor
of his home. (Although the magic word has long since been discovered,
no one in the United States or any part of the great outside world has
managed to pronounce it correctly.) The Magic of Oz, p. 18. (B)
Binx
Binx is one of the pirates who plotted with the Nom
King to conquer Oz. But soon they had the wind tº
out of their sails. Pirates in Oz, p. 61. (T)
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wittle serves airy dishes a -
royalty of this rari
103. (T) -- .


Blinkem
The personal attendant to the King of Bunnybury,
whose kingdom is a civilized city of rabbits in the Quadling Country, -
Blinkem, like his whole city, is under the personal protection of Glinda,
who is very fond of bunnies. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 205. (B)
*.
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Blinkie º
This old woman was once leader of an evil band of ~
witches who terrorized the good people of Jinxland, in a remote corner!
of Oz. The two most evil deeds that Blinkie ever performed were to \, ',
freeze the heart of a lovely princess so that she could no longer love, \ .
and to transform Cap'n Bill into a grasshopper with a wooden leg. The
Scarecrow, with the aid of the Ork, soon put matters aright. Blinkie
was punished by losing all of her magical powers and being sent back &
to her hovel to live as a harmless old lady. The Scarecrow of Oz, p.
153. (B)
This fellow is one of the nine fishermen who live on
barren Nonagon Island in the Nonestic Ocean. Bloff is still convinced
that the visit of the Red Jinn to his cottage was a nightmare, and he
still can't explain the disappearance of his poor cat Nina. The Silver
Princess in Oz, p. 208. (T)


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Blotz
General Blotz is a guardsman in the service of Gloma,
the dark witch of the Black Forest, in the Winkie Country. It is his
duty to escort strangers entering the forest to Gloma's Royal Circle.
The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 149. (T)
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Once a live blue bear, this pet of an old woman named
- Dyna choked to death on a fish bone. Dyna loved the bear so dearly
that she had his skin made into a rug. Ultimately, the Blue Bear Rug
was brought to life by the magic Powder of Life and proved to be a
real nuisance. He followed Dyna all around the house and refused to lie
flat, for sweeping. The Road to Oz, p. 179. (B)
Blue Rabbit
Blue Rabbit has blue eyes and lives in the blue
Munchkin Country. He once led the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman,
Polychrome, and Woot the Wanderer through his burrow under the ,
Wall of Solid Air, so that they could continue their journey to Mount
Munch. Blue Rabbit is especially fond of blue carrots. The Tin Wood-
man of Oz, p. 264. (B)
Blug
General Blug, commander of the Nome King's legions
of warriors, once gave the old Nome his first idea about conquering Oz.
It was Blug's plan to burrow a tunnel under the Deadly Desert, leading



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to the Emerald City. However, Blug made the mistake of telling Roquat
that his armies were not powerful enough to conquer the Emerald City.
The wicked Nome King threw his sceptre at Blug and later banished
him. Eventually, the Nome King used poor Blug's idea. The Emerald
City of Oz, p. 17. (B)
Bobo
The Prince of Boboland. See BILBIL, the goat.
Bob Up
This little orphan boy's name once was
Bobby Downs. With the clown, Notta-Bit-More, he
found his way to Oz from America. Ozma, Dorothy,
Button Bright, and all the Oz folks quickly took the A
homeless little red-headed boy to their hearts, and you º
can be sure he is living very happily in Oz today, with
his faithful clown friend. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p.
37. (T)
Boglodore .
Boglodore was a wizard in Ozamaland and was also
known as the Old Man of the Jungle. He carried Prince Tandy off to
Patripanny Island in the Nonestic Ocean and left him to the mercies of
the wild beasts and Leopard Men. When his own treachery betrayed
him, Boglodore turned against his co-plotter in a way that helped Prince
Tandy out of his difficulties. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 260. (T)






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Boldoſo
At one time, Boldoso was a henchman of Realbad the
bandit. Now he is a peaceful Winkie farmer, prouder of his golden
corn than he was of his golden coins in former days. Ojo in Oz, p. 52(T)
Bookman
This curious little man lives in the Winkie
Country. His body is a book, but it never contains the
information anyone wants, unfortunately. (We have tried
to make Who's Who IN Oz very different from Book-
man!) The Nome King of Oz, p. 220. (T)
Book of Royalty
The King of Bookville, in the Winkie
Country, is a proud, stupid, and unpleasant monarch.
His hard-tooled cover conceals much lore respecting the
superiority of royalty over common folk. We would like
to tell the King of Bookville that he is out of date—in
fact, he is out of print! The Hidden Valley of Oz, p.
152. (C)
Boy
Boq is the Munchkin man who so kindly entertained
Dorothy, sheltering her in his home on the little girl's first night in Oz,
during her first visit to Emerald City. The Wizard of Oz, p. 21. (B)

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Bragga
Captain of the Guard of Baffleburg, Bragga is like some
other minor officials: what he lacks in ability, he makes up in bragga-
docio. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 140. (T)
Braided Man
This curious personage is a very old man who lives half
way up the spiral staircase, in the Pyramid Mountain of the Valley of
Voe, a little-known underground country across the Deadly Desert
from Oz. The Braided Man's white hair and beard are so long they fall
to his feet. He has very carefully braided both hair and beard, tying
them with brightly colored ribbons. He manufactures flutters for
American flags and rustles for ladies' silk dresses. Dorothy and the
Wizard in Oz, p. 113. (B)
Breakfaſt
Breakfast is a “bananny” goat, the only one of her kind.
Her horns are golden-ripe bananas, which keep falling off wherever she
goes. So, Breakfast leaves a trail of bananas—which would make her a
very welcome visitor to a fruit store. In case you like milk with your
breakfast bananas, Breakfast can supply that, too. Pirates of Oz, p.
170. (T)

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Gate. Bristle, who is one of the exclusively rabbity inhabitants of Bun-
nybury, greets all visitors and conducts them to His Majesty, the King.
The Emerald City of Oz, p. 198. (B)
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-º- Brown Wren
This saucy little bird once helped the Shaggy Man and
his friends escape from a place called Hightown, located somewhere
in the sky over the Valley of Romance. The brown wren taught Shaggy
and his comrades that there are more ways of going through the air
than flying. Ever try swimming in the air? Shaggy did. The Shaggy
Man of Oz, p. 97. (S)
i. º
*** . *
- º
...”" . Bru
Not much is known about Bru, except that he is one of
the wisest animals in the great Forest of Gugu in the Gillikin Country,
and that he is one of the three Counselors of King Gugu, ruler of that
forest. The Magic of Oz, p. 82. (B)

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Bubbleſ
wº- These “bubbles" are to be found on the Up-hill-down-
hill River in the Nome Kingdom, across the Deadly Desert from Oz.
When one pops and vanishes, it speaks a single word. The only disad-
vantage in conversing with the bubbles is that a lengthy conversation
is likely to find you answering yourself. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 73. (N)
Bud -
King Bud is the ruler of Noland, a beautiful fairyland
that lies across the desert from Oz. Bud is a frank and merry boy,
dearly beloved by all his subjects. Once he was a simple country lad,
but a series of amazing adventures made him King of Noland. The
Road to Oz, p. 236. (B)
Bullfinch
This small bird's bright little eyes don't miss much. It
was Bullfinch who gave Button Bright the clue that
solved the mystery of lost Ozma's whereabouts. The Lost
º, Princess of Oz, p. 156. (B)
Bumpy Man
| º In the magical Land of Mo, there is a mountain which
has an ear, and this ear is actually the Bumpy Man. He
lives at the top of the mountain, where it snows popcorn







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and rains lemonade, and his bumps always warm him
when there is going to be a storm. You may be sure this ſº
Scarecrow of Oz, p. 91. (B)
Bungle
When Dr. Pipt was practicing magic, he tested his Pow-
-ºi: –-
der of Life on an ornamental glass cat. The cat came to life, but it re-
mained ornamental and not much good for anything. Margolotte, Dr.
Pipt's wife, named the cat Bungle. It has pink brains, the workings of
which you can see, and a ruby heart which is very hard. Bungle now
resides in the Emerald City, but spends a great deal of time tramping
about Oz, exploring and discovering odd nooks and crannies of the
famous fairyland. For Bungle is just as curious as any flesh-and-blood
cat. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 43. (B)
This fellow once stole Red Top Mountain,
in the Quadling Country. He calls himself King of the
Kudgers, a not-too-pleasant people who live on the moun-
tain. Without knowing it, Bustabo achieved a happy result
by stealing Red Top Mountain. For it had been ruled by Azarine, a
beautiful fairy princess. When she lost her mountain kingdom, she
went to the Emerald City to live and soon became a great favorite.
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Button Bright once lived in Philadelphia, where he was
always getting lost. Somehow, he wandered right into
fairyland and met Dorothy and the Shaggy Man. He was
just in time to attend one of Ozma's famous birthday parties. The
Wizard sent him home in an enchanted soap bubble, but it wasn't long
until Button was lost again and having more adventures. He went to
Sky Island with Trot and Cap'n Bill. Since he has come to Oz with
the Scarecrow, Trot, and Cap'n Bill, he finds it the best country of all
in which to get lost. Someday, perhaps there will be a whole book
about Button Bright's doings. The Road to Oz, p. 28. (B)
Buzzub
/
Regos is an island in the Nonestic Ocean ruled by King
º Gos, and Buzzub is a captain in King Gos' army. Big and burly as he
/ is, Buzzub was once defied, overcome, and sorely frightened by the
boyish Prince Inga of Pingaree. The big warrior learned that appear-
ances can be very deceiving, and that you should know your enemy
before you laugh at him. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 114. (B)





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* is for CourAGE. The Cowardly Lion's adventures have
taught him that seldom is it possible to face danger without
fear. The important thing is that your courage
be stronger than your fear
AN “oz FAN'' FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH Cº
One whose courage will assert itself when called upon
to do so, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land of Oz.


Made entirely of the finest quality candies. the Candy
Man lives in one of the delightful valleys of Merryland, the fourth
valley of seven, in all. In this particular valley, the people are all made
of candy, as is their land. The earth is delicious fudge, and the foun- --
tains all gush lemonade. The Candy Man once accompanied Queen £1
Dolly of Merryland to the Emerald City, where they were distinguished
guests of Ozma at one of her wonderful birthday parties. The Road jº
to Oz, p. 231. (B) -
Cap'n Bill Whale; eº
Cap'n Bill is an old sailor who now makes his home in
the Emerald City. One of the best-loved personages of Oz, he has been
the life-long friend and companion of Trot, a little girl who came to Oz
with him. At about the time Trot was born, Cap'n Bill suffered an
accident which resulted in the loss of a leg. This ended his career as a
sailor. At the suggestion of Cap'n Griffith, also a sea-going man who
was away from home much of the time, Cap'n Bill came to stay with
Mrs. Griffith to help look after Trot. Thus, Trot found a constant com-
panion in the old man, from whom she learned many curious things
about the sea. Loving the little girl as if she were his own child, Cap'n
Bill had many strange and amazing fairy adventures with Trot, even
before they came to Oz. For their adventures in the fabulous fairy-
land of Oz, you must read The Scarecrow of Oz, p. 13. (B)



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carrot-topped boys and girls who may be distant cousins of this Carter
Green. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 56. (T)
Cat with Two Tail;
Tattypoo, good witch of the Gillikin Country, has a cat
with two tails. This curious cat has nine lives and twenty-four appe-
tites—one for each hour around the clock. The Giant Horse of Oz, p.
116. (T)
the far southwestern part of the Winkie Country,
there is a high plateau, and on it live the Yips. Cayke is a Yip. When
Cayke's magic dishpan was stolen, she and the wise Frogman went out
in search of it. This was the first time a Yip had ever ventured off the
mountain top. Before Cayke recovered her precious dishpan, she and
the Frogman had some pretty exciting adventures. The Lost Princess
of Oz, p. 39. (B)
C Bunn, Equire
As his name suggests, C. Bunn, Esq., is a bun. In fact,
he's a cinnamon Bun and so important that the Quadling town of Bun-
bury is named for him. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 182. (B)


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! º Chalk
This famous Wishing Horse of Oz is the faithful steed,
friend, and companion of Skamperoo, King of Skampavia, near the
Land of Ev. Not just because his name is Chalk, but because of his
many excellent qualities, the Wishing Horse was bound to make his
mark in Oz. He did—and played a large part in liberating Oz and free-
ing its people. (Chalk up a victory for Chalk!) The Wishing Horse of
Oz, p. 47. (T) º 4.
Chalulu º
The official “wise Man" of the court of Regalia in the
Gillikin Country, Chalulu got his reputation for being wise by advising
everyone to do nothing. Of course, if you do nothing, you are not likely
to get into trouble, nor are you likely to accomplish anything good,
either. So the people who followed Chalulu's advice led very safe, but
dull, lives. And yet they thought Chalulu a very wise man. We're glad
he lives in far-off Regalia. The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 131. (T)
Cheer
The King of the Illumi Nation is a hand-dipped mon-
arch, a Candleman, as are all the inhabitants of this shadowy realm
that lies just below the surface of the Gillikin Country. These Candle-



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º -
* -- ears. The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 128. (T)
Chillywalla
- The Chief of the Boxers in the Land of Ix, across the
Deadly Desert, isn't a bad sort of fellow. Chillywalla just
can't understand why everyone doesn't want to live in
boxes, as do he and his people. The Boxers can't stand
the sight of anything that isn't properly boxed, including
Chimney-villains
These smokies live in Chimneyville, in a place called
Soot City. That's a dark spot in the yellow Winkie Country. Since the
Chimney-villains are made of smoke, they naturally live in chimneys,
and their city is quite sooty. (No doubt they would be just as happy
if they lived in the United States, in the great city of Pittsburgh!) Jack
Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 37. (T)
China Milk Maid
Deep in the south of the Quadling Country lies quaint
China City, where all the people and animals are made of beautiful
china. The China Milk Maid is one of the most charming among them.
The worst that can be said of the inhabitants of China City is that they
are brittle and chip easily. For this reason there is a great wall running
all the way round the China City to protect its fragile subjects. The
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China Princeſ
If you've just read about the China Milk Maid, you've
probably guessed that China Princess lives in the same town. But she
is not very happy there, for she lives in constant fear of being touched
by ordinary people. China Princess shudders at the thought she might
be broken and have to be mended, thus marring her delicate beauty.
Some flesh-and-blood folk are like that, too; they don't know that a
few wrinkles lend character and interest to a face. The Wizard of Oz,
p. 188. (B)
Chin Chilly -
Chin Chilly, frigid King of Isa Poso, an island in the
Nonestic Ocean, is made of snow and ice, as are all of his subjects. If
| you ever get shipwrecked, avoid its happening near this island, for it's
| the coldest place in the world, and its people are all cold-hearted. Any
humor they may have possessed at one time is now frozen stiff. Grampa
in Oz, p. 162. (T)
Chinda
Formerly, Chinda was the Seer of Samandra, in the
Winkie Country. Now, she is the Grand Bozzywog of that same coun-
try. Please don't spend any time trying to find the meaning of the word
Bozzywog, for even Professor Wogglebug couldn't define it for us. The
Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 64. (T)

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& º,
º, | -
tº Chiºſ
--~~\ºs º) A giant porcupine who lives in the Munchkin Country,
Chiss once had the unfriendly habit of throwing his sharp quills at
travelers on the “road of yellow brick.” But he went too far when he
threw them at the Patchwork Girl (who was “stuck-up” enough without
them!) and the Shaggy Man took the quills away from Chiss and sank
them in a pond, thus turning the porcupine into a fairly well-behaved
citizen. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 151. (B)
ºt-_
Chocolate ſoldier, ºs-Sº
This curious candy army once set out to
capture the Emerald City. We suspect that the children
and some of the women wanted to surrender to such de-
licious conquerors. How ever that may be, the chocolate
soldiers failed to seize the city, and they were then trans-
formed into tiny toy soldiers. The Wonder City of Oz,
p. 174. (N)
Choggenmugger
This great beast is even longer than his name. On the
Island of Regos in the Nonestic Ocean, Choggenmugger lives on a diet
of dragons and alligators—that's how big and tough he is! Once, Niko-
bob, the sturdy charcoal burner, chopped Choggenmugger to bits, but
we learn later that he grew back together again. Rinkitink in Oz, p.
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ſº ºf
º, Chopſyſ
- Husband to Nimie Aimee, this surly individual lives on
Mount Munch, in the Munchkin Country. Since he was made from the
discarded flesh-and-blood parts of both the Tin Woodman and the
*& Tin Soldier, Chopfyt can't be either one, completely. (Maybe he's
hard to get along with because he has a split personality!) Let's just
sum it all up by saying that Chopfyt is always someone else. The Tin
Woodman of Oz, p. 273. (B)
Chriſtine tº
Queen of Crystal City in the Munchkin Country, Chris:
tine is barely mentioned in Oz history. Actually, that is just as well, for.
}
* *
the only nice thing about her is her name. Ojo in Oz, p. 118. (T) ,º o
ſº sº
Chriſtmaſ Tree sº
* .
* -->
* ----
A live Christmas tree sounds like fun, but this one º ſº.
provided fun for no one. The last time it was heard from, it was run-º -
ning about the red Quadling Country—where it had no business to be,
at all—trying to collect some new ornaments. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz,
p. 47. (T)
*
Chriſtopher
Brrr! is the best we can say for King Chris-
topher and his crystal people of Crystal City, Munchkin.
They are all as cold-hearted as the sub-zero temperature
of their abode. Let's make our chilly visit a short one. S
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Cloud Fairieſ
These lovely creatures, with their fleecy, shadowy forms,
were glimpsed by Dorothy, the Wizard, and their companions when
they were climbing the Spiral Staircase in Pyramid Mountain, to escape
from the invisible Valley of Voe. Read about it in Dorothy and the
Wizard in Oz, p. 111. (B)
Cloud Puſherſ
Many times, doubtless, you have watched the clouds
move across a summer sky. Who moves them? Maybe, if you look more
closely the next time, you'll catch a glimpse of the “cloud pushers.” The
Wonder City of Oz, p. 165. (N)
Collapſible Kite
Built for the sake of convenience, this remarkable kite
carried Jam all the way to the Land of Oz, where it gained the power
of speech. Sometimes Collapsible Kite was very silent, but when a
good wind was blowing, what a chatterbox-kite it became! The Hidden
Valley of Oz, p. 94. (C)
Colonel Crinkle
An officer in the Nome King's army, Colonel Crinkle has
a very short, and a very sad, history. Very early in his career, he made
the mistake of disagreeing with the Nome King. Just to show he was
boss, Roquat had Colonel Crinkle sliced very thin, like dried beef, and
fed to the seven-headed dog. Soon after, the dog suffered a bad case of
indigestion and seven headaches. In a way, Colonel Crinkle had his
revenge. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 41. (B)
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º * - % 2
º Comfortable Camel
With his companion, the Doubtful Dromedary, the Com-
fortable Camel was blown to the Munchkin Country by a very severe
sandstorm. The Comfortable Camel, who is disturbed by nothing, was
soon quite at home with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, Hank
the Mule, and all the other famous animals in Oz. Camy attached
himself to the Yellow Knight, Sir Hokus, to whom he affectionately
gave the name of his former master, Karwan Bashi. The Royal Book *seſ"
of Oz, p. 218. (T)
Confido (c.
\ . Nº
-
~
~
This Imperial Puppy of the Realm of Samandra, in the ~~ º
Winkie Country, talked too much for his master's good. Of course, his
master shouldn't have whispered his secret into Confido's silky ears. He
made the mistake of thinking his 'Fido'was a dumb beast. The Yellow
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Cook
The good-natured cook was the first Fuddlecumjig to
be put together by Dorothy and her friends when the party from the
Emerald City visited the village of Fuddlecumjig. The cook advised
them about other interesting fuddles to be put together, just like jig-saw
puzzles. Later, he cooked the hungry party a splendid meal that tasted
nothing like a jig-saw puzzle. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 136. (B) º
Once there was a floating volcano in the Nonestic Ocean.
Can you imagine a better place for a bakery? The Wizard
of Oz couldn't, so he transported the volcano with its
cooks and bakers to Lake Quad, in the Quadling Country.
Since that time, there has never been a shortage of baked
goods in Oz. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 21. (N)
A very wicked lady was this Queen of Coregos, whose
husband is King Gos of Regos. She liked to lead her warriors to peace-
ful islands, to plunder the helpless people. One of her wicked deeds
was to make slaves of the ruling family of the Island of Pingaree, with
the exception of Prince Inga, who proved to be her undoing. After being
thoroughly conquered, we hope that both Queen Cor and King Gos
reformed. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 154. (B)


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Count-It-Up
Where else but in the City of Rith Metic, in the Gilli-
kin Country, would Count-It-Up live? Actually, the Count is nothing
more than an oversize pencil, badly in need of sharpening. He's such
a stickler for accuracy that he adds up to a total loss, as far as fun is
concerned. He lives in constant fear that someone in Oz will invent an
adding machine and put him out of business. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 69
Conardly Lion
~ >
7. Although he was a king of the jungle, the famous Cow-
ardly Lion of Oz believed he lacked courage, until the Wizard gave
him a super-concentrated potion of pure Courage to drink. Of course,
the Cowardly Lion was always brave, but he lacked confidence in him-
self. That's really what the Wizard gave him. The great Lion is well
loved in Oz and has shared many adventures with its people. He makes
an imposing figure, crouched beside the throne of the Princess Ozma.
The Wizard of Oz, p. 47. (B)
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Crank Clock
- Standing on a stairlanding in the Royal Palace of the
Emerald City, the Crank Clock is not too pleasant, as time-pieces go–
although you may have known some pretty grumpy old Grandfather,
Clocks! When you next visit Oz, you won't want to pass more than the
time of day with Crank Clock. Scalawagons in Oz, p. 18. (N)
Croſſ Patch
Queen Cross Patch is the sixth ruler of the Kingdom of
Patch in the Winkie Country. Her Royal Highness went to pieces some
years ago and, according to the custom in Patch, her pieces were care-
fully placed in a scrap bag. Ten years later, the bag was opened, and
out stepped Cross Patch, bad as new. True, she was no longer a queen,
but she didn't mind that. You see, the ruler of Patch has to work
mighty hard, day and night, to be cross all of the time. And that's very
-- Yº
little fun, as you know! The Nome King of Oz, p. 15. (T) ſº º a "
Crown Prince of the Lavalander,
When Captain Salt was sailing the Nonestic
Ocean, he came too close to Lavaland, a floating and ex-
plosive bit of volcanic land. Almost before the captain
and his sea-going explorers knew what was happening,
w
| º
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the Crown Prince was on board. He had erupted from the island to the
deck of the ship. Since he was about to burn the ship, there was but
one thing to do. At the suggestion of Roger the Read Bird, Captain Salt
loaded him into the ship's cannon and fired him back to Lavaland. Cap-
tain Salt in Oz, p. 55. (T)
Crunch
Here's the story of a wasted life. A long time ago, a great
statue, three times as big as an ordinary man, was carved out of a huge
stone. A wizard named Wam passed by and decided it would be good
fun to bring the statue to life, which he did. He named the statue
Crunch. But the stone man didn't know what to do with this phenome-
non called life. He just stood still and watched things happen about
him. Wam was much disgusted and vowed never to waste another
stroke of magic on a statue. Years later, the statue decided to make
something out of his life. Unfortunately, he took the wrong direction
and proved to be a hard-hearted and unsympathtic fellow. He really
got into trouble when he tried to steal the Cowardly Lion and take him
to a monarch who collected lions. Glinda the Good and the Wizard
stepped in at this point and removed Wam's magic. Crunch is now
lifeless, nothing more than a huge stone man standing in the Kingdom
of Mudge, in the Munchkin Country. Since Crunch didn't make proper
use of his opportunities, he wound up just as he started—a stone. The
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Cryſobel
Realbad the bandit never really was bad, you know.
There was always a lot of the knight-errant in him. Consequently, he
had to conquer the Blue Dragon and release Crystal City from its long
enchantment. But this all started trouble for him. Crystobel, Princess
of Crystal City, decided Realbad was just the husband for her. More-
over, she wanted to change him into a crystal man, and this caused him
some uneasy moments before he escaped. Ojo in Oz, p. 119. (T)
Cue
Back in the old days, poor Lady Cue did her best to give
the spellbound actors and actresses on the stage of the Theater of
Romance their lines, so that they would know what to say and when to
say it. However, she always managed to mix everything up very badly.
Today she is perfectly at home, standing behind the players in the
bridge games at the Palace of Romance, telling them which cards to
play and how to bid. The Shaggy Man of Oz, p. 118. (S)
Curiouſ Collabuſ
- gº Deep in the purple Gillikin country lives this lavender
cat who dearly loves nothing better than to sit on his front
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questions of anyone who will talk with him. He looks something like an
ordinary cat, that is, if ordinary cats grew to the frightening size of
eight-year-old children. The Curious Cottabus comes of distinguished
ancestry, for he is first cousin to the original cat-who-was-killed-by-
curiosity, and to the Cheshire Cat, who live in other books. Kabumpo
in Oz, p. 56. (T)
Curtain
- Queen Curtain reigns with King Ticket as well-loved
º º monarchs of the Valley of Love, just across the Deadly
\ Desert from Oz. At one time, the Valley of Love was
known as the Valley of Romance. Once, Queen Curtain depended on
the theater for make-believe love, but now she knows what real love is.
She is quite happy with her work in the School of Charm and Maidenly
Bewitchery, which she conducts for the young maidens of the Valley of
Love who are looking for reliable and cheerful husbands. The Shaggy
Man of Oz, p. 118. (S)
Cullendip
Miss Cuttenclip is a talented young girl who has created
a charming village out of paper—magic paper supplied by Glinda the
Good. The Cuttenclip village is a great attraction to visitors who like
to marvel at the pretty paper people. (But if you visit them, beware!
You know what a sneeze did!) The Emerald City of Oz, p. 117. (B)

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is for DoRothy, Princess of Oz. Beloved by millions
for three generations, Dorothy is the dream daughter whom
in real life L. Frank Baum never had
An ‘‘oz FAN'' FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH ‘‘D’ “
One who has known moments when trading places with
Dorothy or Toto—for a while at least—would have been great fun,
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prove an inexpensive way in which to travel, as Lucky Bucky once
discovered. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 32. (N)
Daylight
This brilliant girl with the laughing eyes pays homage
to Erma, the lovely Queen of Light, in the fairyland ruled over by
Tititi-Hoochoo. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 180. (B)
Dear Deer
Dear Deer, wife of Shagomar, the great stag noted for
his devotion to Princess Azarine, is the most beautiful doe in existence.
She now lives in the Emerald City but seldom makes a public appear-
ance. When Dear Deer does venture out into the streets of the city
of Emeralds, all the people and even the animals are entranced with
her soft loveliness and gentle grace. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of
Oz, p. 224. (T)


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A lot of trouble was once caused in the tiny Oz country
of Ozamaland by one Didjaboo, who wanted to get rid of Ozamaland's
perfectly good royal family in order to become the ruler
himself. Properly, he was one of the nine royal judges of
Ozamaland. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 257. (T)
Dikey 2 ºr 2.
Diksey lives in the City of the Horners, in the far south
of the Quadling Country. A great joker, Diksey once made a joke that
was so bad it almost led to war with the Hoppers, neighbors of the
Horners. Diksey apologized and explained his joke. When you have to
explain a joke, you're admitting it was a very poor one, but the Hoppers
forgave the Horners, and peace was officially declared. The Patchwork
Girl of Oz, p. 290. (B)
Dicky Bird
/ The trees of Diksey Land, in the Munchkin Country, are
ºf filled with Dicky Birds, which is no inducement to go there. A parti-
cular Dicky Bird distinguished himself by guiding Dorothy and her
* friend to Diksey Land, but they lived to wish they hadn't followed
Dicky Bird's instructions. Ojo in Oz, p. 154. (T)



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ſpp
Captain Dipp of the Spoon Brigade serves His Majesty
King Kleaver of the Kingdom of Utensia in the Quadling Country. The
spoon soldiers expected to have a stirring time when they captured
Dorothy and Toto. They took their captives to King Kleaver, who was
in a black mood and made some cutting remarks. The Emerald City
of Oz, p. 166. (B)
Doctor Pipt
This crooked magician's fame rests chiefly
on his invention of the Powder of Life. It was this pow-
der which brought to life such famous Oz personages as
Jack Pumpkinghead, the Sawhorse, the Gump, the Blue z
Bear Rug, the Patchwork Girl, and the Glass Cat. Ozma sº
deprived him of his magic powers but straightened out s
his body so that it was no longer crooked. Dr. Pipt was s -
then quite happy to return home to his wife Margolotte.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 25. (B)
Dolfin
Dollfins are little, doll-like fish-fairies which live in the
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Doonerſ
Let's not spend too much time with the Dooners, for
they are sad people who live on the shore of the Nonestic Ocean and
resent all strangers. They tie up travelers with seaweed and pelt them
with sand balls. The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 221. (T)
Dor
Ol
hy
:
Dorothy Gale is a little girl who lived with her Aunt Em
and her Uncle Henry on a farm in the great prairie lands of Kansas. A
cyclone carried Dorothy, her little dog Toto, and the farm house to
the Land of Oz. The great wind set the house down in the Munchkin
Country, accidentally destroying the Wicked Witch of the East, who
had held the Munchkin people in bondage for many years. After count-
ſ
less adventures, Dorothy finally found her way to the Emerald City,
where the famous Wizard of Oz unsuccessfully tried to help her return
to Kansas in a balloon. The balloon escaped, taking the Wizard with
it and leaving Dorothy and Toto in Oz. Glinda, the Good Sorceress of


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the South, enabled Dorothy to return home by telling her of the magic
powers possessed by the silver shoes Dorothy had taken from the feet
of the Wicked Witch of the East.
Dorothy made three other fascinating trips to the Land of Oz
before she, with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and Toto, came to the Eme-
rald City to make a permanent home. In the meantime, Ozma had
made Dorothy a Princess of Oz. Dorothy had won all the hearts of the
Oz people, and she and her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were eagerly
welcomed by Ozma and all her subjects. The people of Oz feel that
Dorothy has brought them good luck, for it was Dorothy who intro-
duced to the Emerald City such famous persons as the Scarecrow, the
Tin Woodman, the Shaggy Man, Billina the yellow hen, Tik-Tok the
machine man, Button Bright, the Cowardly Lion, and many others.
(It is interesting to note that the first word ever written in the very
first Oz book was “Dorothy.” The last word of the book is “again.” And
that is what young readers have said ever since those two words were
written: “We want to read about Dorothy again.”) The Wizard of Oz,
p. 1. (B)
Doubtful Dromedary
Doubtful is a desert-going animal, who once lived in
the land of Camelia, which was long ago blown off all the maps. So
don't try to find it. A great sand storm blew the Doubtful Dromedary
and the Comfortable Camel to the Land of Oz. As soon as they arrived
in the Munchkin Country, things began to happen, involving Dorothy,
the Cowardly Lion, Sir Hokus, and the Scarecrow. For proof, see The
Royal Book of Oz, p. 218. (T)


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º
Dragonetieſ Fº
It seems that these dragonettes are not even distant
cousins to the dragonettes in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Perhaps
because these are Oz dragonettes, they are kinder and more friendly.
They helped Sir Hokus by providing him with something to chase.
And you know how dearly knights love to pursue dragons—or drago-
nettes! The Wonder City of Oz, p. 200. (N)
Dragonetieſ
There are some young dragons who live in a cave under
the surface of the earth, just above the Valley of Voe and across the
Deadly Desert from Oz. It is the custom of the mother dragon to tie
their tails to the wall of the cave so they can't get into mischief while
she goes to the surface to look for food for them. Dorothy, the Wizard,
and a boy named Zeb once had a lengthy and illuminating conversa-
tion with these dragonettes. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 146. (B)
Dyna &
An old lady who lives in the Emerald City, Dyna has
many visitors. They don't come to see her, however; they come to
see her Blue Bear Rug. Once a live bear from the Munchkin Country,
the Blue Bear Rug was brought back to life by the Powder of Life. It
is a great embarrassment to Dyna because it refuses to behave like a
respectable rug, because it believes it is still a real bear. The Road to
Oz, p. 179. (B)


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is for EMERALD–in Emerald City, Storyland's most
famous capitol. Here, in Ozma's Royal Palace, gather the
best-loved immortals of the magic Land of Oz. And here, too,
many happy adventures transpire
An ‘‘oz FAN'' FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH “E”
One who knows the enchantment of Oz and many of its
secrets, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land of Oz.


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~<\ \º
Eeſabo
Eeſabo, chief footman in the palace of Pumperdink, in
the Gillikin Country, once got well-dipped by the Chief Dipper when
a certain important birthday cake blew up, exploding the whole king-
dom into an uproar. But to find out how Prince Pompadore and the
elegant elephant settled the kingdom's explosive problem, you must
read Kabumpo in Oz, p. 15. (T)
Electra
Electra is a dazzling maiden, one of the most faithful
and useful servitors of Erma, Queen of Light. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 130. (B)
--- N. Se-
Elma
Princess of the Bigwigs, Elma lives in Immense City, in
the Nome Country. During the day, while wearing her bigwig, Elma
(who is only seven years old) is at least 100 feet high. But at night,
when the Princess removes her bigwig, she shrinks to the size of an
ordinary child. Elma tried to make a pet of the Hungry Tiger on one
occasion, treating the huge animal like a pussycat and dressing him in
doll clothes. (Of course, this happened during the daytime.) The Hun-
gry Tiger of Oz, p. 166. (T)
Emerald Cutler
When Number Nine came to the Emerald City from his
father's Munchkin farm, he had only one friend in all the city. That



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was the emerald cutter, Number Nine's uncle. The royal emerald cutter
did his best to help the country boy in the city, which proves that, in
addition to knowing his emeralds, he could recognize a diamond in
the rough. The Wonder City of Oz, p. 140. (N)
A good name, this, for a dragon that once lived on the
Island of Isa Poso in the Nonestic Ocean. This fire-breather once made
the mistake of plunging into an icy stream. Enorma's fire was put out,
and no one ever feared her again. As you may know, once a dragon's fire
is extinguished, the horrid creature grows as meek and mild as a puppy.
Grampa in Oz, p. 154. (T)
Eguinot;
You've probably seen pictures of centaurs, but I imag-
ine you have never found a live one in the zoo. The Equinots of the
Gillikin Country are much like centaurs. They like to keep their stable
homes well filled with people to currycomb them and make them com-
fortable. The Hidden Valley of Oz, p. 65. (C)


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Erma
The Queen of Light lives in the land of the Great Jinjin,
Tititi-Hoochoo, where all the people are fairy kings and queens who
minister to the needs of mortals. Erma sees to it with her magic that we
of the great outside world have light—sunlight, starlight, moonlight,
and even electric light. She once entertained Betsy Bobbin in her over-
whelming fairyland. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 126. (B)
Erwic
The Prime Minister of the Skeezers, in the far north of
the Gillikin Country, Ervic was once a youth in the
service of the wicked Skeezer queen, Coo-ee-oh. After a
series of magical adventures, during which Ervic dis-
played courage, cleverness, and ingenuity in helping to
defeat Coo-ee-oh, the new Queen Aurex immediately
named Ervic her prime minister. Glinda of Oz, p. 136. (B)
Eureka
The pink kitten was Dorothy's companion in some ad-
ventures which began in a California earthquake and ended happily
in the Emerald City. Dorothy named the kitten Eureka because she
had found her, and Uncle Henry told her that Eureka means, “I have
found it!” And he's right, too. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 15. (B)

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Evered
! # Evered is the Scarlet Prince of Rash, in the Land of Ev.
Little Prince Reddy lost his kingdom, and it took the help of Ozma
and the Hungry Tiger to win it back for him. Today, everyone in Rash
is much happier. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 88. (T)
Evoldo
Evoldo evil did! Yes, he was a bad man, the King of Ev,
who sold his family into slavery to the Nome King. Dorothy and Ozma,
with the help of Billina, the yellow hen, freed the royal family and
returned them to their country. Ozma of Oz, p. 59. (B)
Evring
This young Prince of Ev spent a number of years as a
purple china kitten, standing on a bric-a-brac shelf in the Nome King's
palace of enchantments. By good luck, Dorothy broke the enchantment
and freed Evring from his brittle existence. Ozma of Oz, p. 201. (B)


is for FAIRYLAND, old as man's dreams. The magic of
fairyland continually comes true, for man first
imagines, then brings his dreams to life through science and the
machine. Ozma's Magic Picture has already become a
reality in our own living rooms
An "Oz FAn FR I END w Hose. NAME BEG 1 ns w i TH F * *
One who has tried the magic paths of fairyland, learned
its secret ways, and is now a registered Citizen of the Land of Oz.

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Falcero
ºv. A royal fairy princess of the forest of Follensby in the
Gillikin Country, Faleero is the homeliest living fairy. She spends all
her time gathering faggots, which she stores in her forest hovel. To
escape marrying her, Prince Pompadore once fled from his Kingdom
of Pumperdink. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 34. (T)
Felina
It is well known that black cats are the pets of old
witches, so it shouldn't be surprising that snow white Felina is the pet
cat of fairy princess Ozana of Oz. The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 117. (S)
º -
Ferryman
A long time ago, he cut the tail off a fox and harmed other animals
cruelly. The kind-hearted Tin Woodman, Emperor of the Winkies,
heard of his misdeeds and deprived the ferryman of the power of un-
derstanding the speech of animals. And so, today, the ferryman is the
only person in Oz to hear only grunts, squeals, owls, barks, and other
animal noises, instead of words. The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 193. (B)




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Fi-Nance
Here is a lady literally made of money—Fi-Nance, Queen
of Down Town, in the Land of Ev. But, since there isn't a single coin in
all the world even shaped like a heart, no one really loves this poor
little rich queen. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 116. (T)
Firelight
One of the favorite handmaidens of Erma, Queen of
Light, this lovely maiden has smouldering eyes and a radiantly warm
beauty. Perhaps you have seen her, dancing in the flames of your fire-
place on a cold winter's night? Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 130. (B)
Firſt and Foremoſt
The supreme ruler of the dreaded Phanfasms, who
dwell on the top of Mount Phantastico, First and Foremost is one of
the most evil of all creatures. He joined the Nome King in an attempt
to conquer and plunder the Land of Oz. First and Foremost and his
dreadful Erbs wanted no reward; they undertook the venture for the
joy of making happy people unhappy and destroying something good.
Of course, they didn't succeed. Evil can go just so far, and then it is
stopped, of itself. In this case, the evil deeds were halted by an inno-
cent handful of dust. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 119. (B)


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Firſt Knight of the Realm
In the Valley of Romance, across the Deadly Desert yº
from Oz, the First Knight of the Realm had been in charge of all “First ºn
Night" performances in the famous Theater of Romance. The theater
is now closed, and the First Knight has a new job. He teaches dramatics
in the College of Arts and Sciences in the Valley of Love. The Shaggy
Man of Oz, p. 116. (S)
Fiſherman
This Winkie fisherman once asked Dorothy and Piga-
sus, “Who is Ozma of Oz?” Can you imagine that? Of
course, there was a magic black fish at the end of that
fisherman's line. The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 138. (T)
y =
Fizzenpop Nº.
*
\) //
The Grand Vizier of Rash is a lovable, effervescent old
man who never ceased in his efforts to restore Prince Reddy to his lost
throne of Rash. Fizzenpop finally succeeded, and today he is the hap-
piest Rash man alive. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 18. (T)




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º Deadly Desert except lizards and scorpions. Their mirage-kingdom
is made of blue flames that grow in the shifting sands where nothing
Flathead; \ }.
There are exactly 100 of these curious beings, and they
live on a mountain top in the Gillikin Country. A long time ago, the
Flatheads were just ordinary people with flat heads and no brains.
Queen Lurline felt sorry for them and gave each one a can of brains.
But, once they had brains, the Flatheads couldn't behave. They began
to steal one another's brains! Glinda of Oz, p. 18. (B)
º Flub Blub
2 sº
2 - -
ºf This is the name of the King of the Scooters, and the
Scooters are a race of people who live on a river in the Gillikin Country.
They have great wings in which they catch the wind and sail across the
surface of the water, much like the water bugs you have seen in the
summer on the surface of pools and streams. (But don't ever call a
Scooter a bug! He wouldn't like it!) The Lost King of Oz, p. 156 (T)







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*
s ºu
º' the Munchkin Country. This is most unusual, for owls are supposed
Fluff
With her brother, King Bud, Princess Fluff rules the
Kingdom of Noland, a famed fairyland where strange and wonderful
things are constantly occurring. Fluff is so gay and good-hearted that
everyone in Noland loves her. Once, she and King Bud visited Oz. The
Road to Oz, p. 236. (B)
Flutterbudget;
In a remote corner of the Quadling Country, the Flut-
terbudgets live quite alone in their small village. No visitor ever stays
there long, because the Flutterbudgets are an unpleasant folk, who
live in constant fear of the terrible things that might happen. Very
few of these terrible things ever actually come to pass, but the Flutter-
budgets talk about them all the time and are always warning strangers
of the dangers that surround them. I am afraid that several of these
Flutterbudgets have reached the great outside world, where we
allow them to walk about freely, alarming those who bother to listen
to them. Wisely, in Oz, they are confined to one small village. The
Emerald City of Oz, p. 238. (B)
Fooliſh Owl
Foolish lives with a wise donkey in a little house in
to be wise and donkeys, stupid. But Foolish Owl and Wise Donkey get
along very well together, and sometimes the owl's foolish doggerel
does show real wisdom. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 92. (B)


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)
to the Yips, in the Winkie Country. There, the bird dropped him
into a pool in which grows the magic skosh. The frog ate of the skosh
and grew very wise and as large as a man. Then he left the pool and
lived with the Yip people. Later, the Frogman left Yip land and
became famous, although not too popular, all over Oz. The Lost Prin-
cess of Oz, p. 40. (B)
N > Fumbo, King of Ragbad, was so extravagant he reduced
Ragbad to a poverty-stricken nation. To make matters worse, he went
Jout into a storm one day and lost his head. His son, Prince Tatters,
went forth to seek his fortune and found the head of his royal father.
Ozma reunited the king and his head, and Fumbo is now said to
be a better king and a wiser man for the travels his head made.
Grampa in Oz, p. 15. (T)
Funnybone;
The settlement of the Funnybones is on the edge of
the Deadly Desert, in the Winkie Country. Did you ever bump your
funnybone? 'Felt like an electric shock, didn't it? These Funnybones
like to tickle travelers with their electric shocks. Like all practical
jokers, they have almost no real sense of humor—they just enjoy
making others feel uncomfortable. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 142. (N)


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is for GLINDA, the good sorceress who rules over
the Quadling Country. In her great love for her
people, Glinda uses her magical powers only to bring the greatest
happiness to all. Love is like good sorcery, for
through it we bring happiness to others as well as ourselves
AN “oz FAN'" FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH “G”
One who knows the excitement of journeying in the Gil-
likin Country, and is here registered as a Citizen of the Land of Oz.

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Gardener .
23.3
Gardner of the Rose Kingdom, near theº
Land of Ev, is a funny little man who dresses in rose- -
colored costumes, with rose ribbons at his knees and-
elbows, and a bunch of ribbons in his hair. The Rose
Kingdom is devoted to the culture of the most perfect
roses, and Gardener is a very important person there. }
He doesn't like people who pick his roses, but the a º
Shaggy Man did—and everyone was happy about that,
except Gardy. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 46. (B) -
Garde
Queen of the Island of Pingaree, Garee now lives peace-
fully on her beautiful island in the Nonestic Ocean with her husband,
King Kitticut, and her son, Prince Inga. Almost forgotten are those
terrible days when the gentle Queen was a prisoner of the wicked
Nome King. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 21. (B)
Gargoyle;
This is the kind of creature we dream about some-
times, after we have eaten too much. These gargoyles are carved from
wood and are extremely ugly, and they fly about on wooden wings cºp
which unhook from their shoulders. Their wooden country is on top º
of Pyramid Mountain, rising from the Valley of Voe. Once, Dorothy
and the Wizard encountered them, but since the Wizard set fire to
their ugly land, there may not be a single wooden Gargoyle left.
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º
A small servant of Mogodore of Baffleburg, in the Quad-
ling Country, Ginger is a lively lad who performs marvels with his silver
dinner bell. When he rings the bell—hey, presto! there is plenty to
eat, and the food is always highly spiced, owing, we imagine, to Gin-
ger's name. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 51. (T)
Glinda
- º | This famous ruler of the Quadling Country is the great-
est sorceress of all. Glinda is the firm friend of Princess Ozma; indeed,
it was Glinda who solved the mystery of Ozma's birth and freed her
*
from an enchantment that had kept her from the throne. And she has
taught the Little Wizard all that she knows about magic. Glinda lives
in a handsome castle, surrounded by a bevy of beautiful maidens. She
spends her time studying sorcery and devising ways to make the people
of Oz even more happy than they are. One of her most prized posses-
sions is the Great Book of Records, in which every event that occurs
anywhere in Oz (or elsewhere) is magically and truthfully recorded,
just as soon as it happens. Thus, Glinda is wise and good beyond mea-
sure, and Oz is fortunate indeed to possess her. The Wizard of Oz, p.
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Gloma
Gloma, the Black Queen, lives in the Black Forest, in the
otherwise-yellow Winkie Country. In spite of the darkness of her
gloomy realm, Gloma is a good witch, which she proved by helping
Dorothy when Oz had been conquered. The Wishing Horse of Oz,
Gloria
Gºſ ºº º
! º º * In the days when a tiny and remote country in Oz
º º */called Jinxland was ruled by King Krewl, who had stolen the throne
is from King Kynd, Princess Gloria's father, the poor princess was most
unhappy. And so were all the Jinxlanders. Gloria wanted to marry Pon,
* the gardener's boy, but her uncle insisted she marry ugly old Googly
Goo, who was very rich. What happened? For the present, we'll just
tell you that Gloria is now Queen Gloria and her royal husband is Pon.
And neither of them will ever stop thanking the famous Scarecrow of
Oz. The Scarecrow of Oz, p. 152. (B)
Glubao
For a short time, Glubdo ruled over the Red Jinn's realm
in the Land of Ev, with the help of his brother, Gludwig. The best thing
we can say about Glubdo is that he wasn't quite the dumbo Gludwig
proved to be. The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 202. (T)
Gludwig
- º Gludwig the Glubrious, brother of Glubdo, was one of
of the jolly Jinnicky, the Red Jinn of the Land of Ev. He
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stirred the Jinn's people to rebellion and forced Jinnicky from his
throne. Then, Gludwig showed his real nature, for he proceeded to
turn all those who opposed or displeased him to stone. But the little
Red Jinn wasn't beaten so easily, and it wasn't long until he had won
back his throne. You can be sure that Gludwig received his punish-
ment. The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 185. (T)
Godorkaſ
Lord of a floating castle-island in the Nonestic Ocean,
Godorkas, the Duke of Dork, has a great liking for bana-
mas. Now that Breakfast, the bananny goat, has come to
his luxury island, His Excellency is about the most con-
tented Duke afloat. Pirates in Oz, p. 187. (T)
Queen of Stairway Town in the Gillikin Country, Go-
down was a savage-looking person who was stooped and tired from her
endless trips down the stairs of her realm. Her husband, King Kumup,
was just as tired from coming up. Kabumpo and Randy decided there
was no future in either coming up or going down all the time, so they
took off in another direction. As Randy said, “Im—magine spending
your life on the stairs!” The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 96. (T)

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Good Witch of the North
When the cyclone first blew Dorothy and Toto and their
Kansas farm-home to Oz, settling the house on the Wicked Witch of
the East and killing her in the process, it was the Good Witch of the
North who greeted Dorothy, advising her to travel to the Emerald City
to ask the Wizard of Oz to send her and her little dog back home. Al-
though not much has been heard about her since, Dorothy says that
some pretty important things have transpired involving the Good
Witch of the North, but the story is just too long to crowd into a small
space. It would take a whole book, Dorothy tells us. The Wizard of Oz,
p. 8. (B)
'Googly Goo
º * A rich and powerful nobleman of Jinxland, Googly Goo
* learned that money will not buy love or happiness. He
tried to buy the love of Princess Gloria; in fact, he even
paid a wicked witch to freeze the princesssheart so that
she couldn't love anyone else. But Gloria preferred Pon,
the lowly gardener's boy, and all of Googly Goo's money
couldn't change that. The Scarecrow of Oz, p. 143. (B)
Gorba
This is the wizard-name of Abrog, if you spell that
name backwards. Gorba is the Prophet of Perhaps City
in the Maybe Mountains of the Winkie Country. As a
Wizard, this wicked man stole Princess Pretty Good of
Perhaps City and tried to transform her into a chunk of
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emerged from the charm as Urtha, the flower fairy.
Ş. After Gorba's misdeeds had been righted, he was pun-
ished by being turned into a brown mouse. Grampa in
Oz, p. 252. (T) (^-
Goſ º º
If he were not inspired to do evil by his wife (who is
Cor, co-ruler of Coregos, the twin islands) Gos, ruler of the Isle of
Regos in the Nonestic Ocean, would be nothing more than a big and sº
burly monarch, perhaps not too intelligent, but with a hearty joy in his ſº
rough island life. He may have grown wiser, however, since he has
tasted defeat at the hands of the boy prince, Inga of Pingaree. Rinki-
tink in Oz, p. 122. (B)
After he had been retired from active army duty as an
old man with one game leg, Grampa sprang into action at the time of
Ragbad's need. He went forth with Prince Tatters to engage in a series
of amazing exploits that resulted in the freeing of a beautiful princess.
When he returned triumphantly with a happy Prince Tatters, he found
the love and devotion of an entire kingdom waiting for him in the now
prosperous Ragbad. Grampa in Oz, p. 17. (T)




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Scarecrow when the straw man fell down the Magic Beanpole into
their land. The Grand Chew Chew explained to the Scarecrow all
about his (the Scarecrow’s) former existence as the exalted Chang
Wang Woe, Emperor of the Silver Islands. But the Scarecrow found
that kinging it can be a royally risky business, and he was overjoyed to
be rescued by Dorothy and her companions. The Royal Book of Oz,
p.98. (T)
Grand Gallpool
Directly to the northeast of the Nome Kingdom is the
Land of the Growleywogs. The Grand Gallipoot is the ruler of these
fearsome creatures, who are very tall, thin people with extremely
powerful muscles lying just below their skins. Overbearing and disa-
greeable, they appear to be thin and weak, but they are really so
strong the feeblest of them can toss an elephant seven miles. General
Guph secured the aid of the Grand Gallipoot and his Growleywogs
when he was enlisting allies for the Nome King's ill-fated venture to
conquer Oz. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 79. (B)
Grand Gheewizard
Imagine! This magician of the Silver Islands wanted to
change the Scarecrow into an eighty-five-year-old Silver Islander! The
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there was much oriental skullduggery afoot. Dorothy appeared in the
nick of time, and the Scarecrow's straw stuffing didn't age even a single
day. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 206. (T)
Grand Mo-Gull
King of all land and sea birds, the Grand Mo-Gull car-
ried young Prince Philador from the Ozure Islands to the hut of Tatty-
poo, the Good Witch of the Gillikins. The prince sought her aid in free-
ing his lovely islands from a magic spell cast by old Mombi. The Giant
Horse of Oz, p. 40. (T)
Grandmother Gmit
This elderly lady lives in the village of the Fuddlecum-
jigs, folks built like jig-saw puzzles who are likely to "scatter” themselves
at any moment. When she is in one piece, Grandmother Gnit occupies
her time knitting mittens for a foolish kangaroo, who constantly loses
Sº them. Boxing gloves would actually be more suitable for this fellow,
- anyway. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 138. (B)
Grapégatherer
s—º When Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Percy, Jam, and the
& Cowardly Lion were plotting to overthrow Terp the Terrible, a giant,
Grapegatherer risked his freedom to help them. All this took place in
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Great Dragon
This is the father of a family of huge dragons who dwell
in a cave just below the surface of the Winkie Country. Woot the
Wanderer once accidentally dropped into the dragon cave. If he
hadn't been wearing the magic apron of Mrs. Yoop, Woot's wanderings
would have ceased on the spot. The Tin Woodman of Oz, p. 124. (B)
| Greta
* º Ordinarily, Glinda, the good sorceress of the south,
selects her serving maids from the Quadling Country. Once in a while,
§ she is pleased to be served by lovely girls from other Oz countries.
Imagine then, the pride and joy of little Greta, a humble milkmaid
from the northern country of the Gillikins, when Glinda made her
one of her best-loved maids-in-waiting! Ozoplaning with the Wizard (
of Oz, p. 233. (T) \,,
Grumph ſ º
With such a name, wouldn't you guess that this fellow & º
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r
*
...
< * ,
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is a Nome? Grumph turned up in the Emerald City with his friend º
Umph, another Nome, and stole Jenny Jump's magic turn-style, º
taking it up a chimney—a typically “Nomish” thing to do. The Wonder
City of Oz, p. 191. (N) º
Grumpy
When a person is in a bad mood, haven't you heard it
said, “He’s cross as a bear?" Well, in the Winkie Country there is a
cross Kingdom of Patch, where all the people are cross patches. Nat-



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urally, there had to be a cross bear living there, and his name is
Grumpy. The Gnome King of Oz, p. 59. (T)
Guardian of the
Magic Muffin Trae
This particular “guardian” has the body of an elephant,
the tail of an alligator, and two heads—a wolf's head and an owl's head.
Is it any wonder that no one has ever found a name for this creature?
Gugu, in the central and western part of the Gillikin Country. King
Gugu, the leopard, suffered the humiliation of being transformed by
Kiki Aru into a fat little Gillikin woman. The Magic of Oz, p. 82. (B)
friendly city. Since Bookville is peopled by rather uppish and snobbish



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“Books,” what it really needs is a good, horn-rim-spectacled librarian
to put the Books in their places. The Hidden Valley of Oz, p. 146. (C)
Gump
- Once there was a creature resembling an elk whose .
head hung on the wall of the Royal Palace in Oz. When the Scarecrow
2 and his companions were constructing a “thing” which would carry
ſ them from the Royal Palace of the Emerald City (where they were
being held captive by General Jinjur's Army of Revolt) they removed
the head from the wall and fastened it to the front of their make-shift
flying machine. Then they brought the whole contraption to life with
the magic Powder of Life. After the Gump had served his purpose, the
head was returned to the wall of the Royal Palace. At rare intervals,
this head sees fit to speak, and visitors, not knowing the Gump's
amazing history, are quite startled. The Land of Oz, p. 201. (B)
Guph
Commander-in-Chief of the Nome King's army and suc-
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on a dangerous mission. It involved enlisting the aid of a
horde of wicked creatures to march with the Nome
army through a tunnel leading under the Deadly Desert,
and then on to the Emerald City. Once there, Guph
planned to pillage and despoil the entire Land of Oz.
To shorten a long story—Guph is no longer a General—
indeed, few Ozians choose to remember him. The Em-
erald City of Oz, p. 32. (B)
Guraada
Gureeda, Princess of Umbrella Island, very nearly be-
came the servant of a giant—Loxo the Lucky. She is
called Gureeda because she reads so much and so gu-
reedily. However, when she met Speedy and Terrybub-
ble, Gureeda found that her own life was as exciting as
any she had ever read about. Speedy in Oz, p. 52. (T)
Guig
As royal sorcerer of the land of the Mangaboos, a
vegetable kingdom lying under the surface of the earth near the
Land of Ev, Gwig once tested his magic against that of the Wizard of
Oz. The Mangaboo tried to stop the Wizard's breathing, but that great
Oz personage unsheathed a huge sword and sliced Gwig in two. But
he then got planted, so that he could sprout and produce a new Gwig,
which seems to us about like sewing seeds of discord. Dorothy and the
Wizard in Oz, p. 37. (B)


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The King of Kimbaloo, in the Gillikin Country, hired
Hah Hoh as the Town Laugher. Hah Hoh is one laugher who has both
the first laugh and the last—he laughs at his own bad verses, but no-
body else does. The Lost King of Oz, p. 37. (T)
Half a Lion
A long time ago, a man named Tazzywaller, then High
| Chamberlain of Mudge, cut a lion in half. The head
locked up the rear half in the castle. The unfortunate
half a lion (the head) roamed the forests of the
Munchkin Country. When Ozma heard of the poor beast's
plight, she quickly reunited the two halves and made a
whole lion of Half a Lion. Since no one ever dies in the
Land of Oz, Half a Lion might have been cut into a
thousand pieces, and each bit of him would have had
to wander in the Munchkin forests. Of course, if this 2%
had happened, it would have made Ozma's task much
more difficult. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 92. (T)
Hammerhead
These wild and lawless people inhabit a hill in a de-
serted section of the Quadling Country. They prevent travelers from
passing their hill by popping their heads out (like the well known jack-



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as the Sawhorse, the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, and Toto. Like
Toto, Hank is from the United States. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 39. (B)
Happy Toko
\ Once the royal drummer of the Silver Islands, Happy
\ Toko was promoted to the position of Imperial Punster by the Scare-
crow. Later, Happy was knighted by the Yellow Knight; a short time
thereafter, he became Emperor of the Silver Islands. The Royal Book
of Oz, p. 109. (T)
Harum Sarum
Harum Scarum of Scare City in the Quad-
ling Country, was a most frightful looking fellow. He
continually made ugly faces, groaned and shouted, and º
he was always wanting to chop off someone's head, or
murder someone. But he couldn't scare Peter, a little
boy from Philadelphia, because Peter was a baseball fan
and had seen the crowds at Shibe Park. Jack Pumpkin-
head of Oz, p. 61. (T)
Haſhem
Hashem is one of the several chefs serving in the royal
kitchen of the Palace of Pumperdink, in the Gillikin
== Country. Without our telling you, you would know, of
course, that Hashem is in charge of the meals served on
Mondays and days following holidays and feast days.
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Heelerſ
Strange creatures called Heelers once invaded Oz. They
stayed only a few pages and then showed their heels to the Oz folk and
vanished to their home beyond the Deadly Desert. No one was sorry
to see them go. The Wonder City of Oz, p. 124. (N)
Herby
The medicine man of Oz was once an ordinary little
Winkie man who liked to cure such ills as boredom,
fatigue, laughing-at-the-wrong-moment, and other such
ailments. Old Mombi did one of the few useful acts of
her life by enchanting him, so that he became a real
medicine man, with a medicine chest right in his own
chest. Today, Herby happily serves as court physician
of Ozma's Royal Palace, even though his cures are sel-
dom needed there. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 122. (T)
Hiergargo
One of the greatest magicians who ever lived, Hier-
gargo built a giant tube right through the center of the earth. When he
decided to travel through this tube in order to save time, he went so
fast that he came out the opposite end, flew into space, hit a star, and
exploded! In brief, he ended with a bang! Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 140. (B)
High Boy
The Giant Horse of Oz is an amazing creature, with
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prairie or a mountain. High Boy cut quite a figure in the Emerald City
and proved so courageous and good-natured that he is the most famous
horse in Oz, next to Ozma's beloved Sawhorse. The Giant Horse of Oz,
p. 141. (T) H
^2. High Coco-Lorum |
The city of Thi, in the Winkie Country, is the home of
the Thists, and their ruler is the High Coco-Lorum. These Thists (try
not to lisp when you say their name!) are an odd people, with diamond-
shaped heads and heart-shaped bodies; their eyes are very large and
round; their noses and mouths are very small. The only hair they have
& grows in tufts at the tops of their heads. And, as you may have guessed,
they eat thistles. Until Dorothy and her party visited Thi, no one even
knew the city existed, which is not strange, for this strange place is en-
chanted and jumps about the landscape. In addition, it is surrounded
by a nearly impassable field of great, prickly thistles. Beyond this
hedge, there is a high stone wall, which is just an optical illusion. From
all this, we can take a hint—we know the Thists want to be left alone.
The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 129. (B)
High Qui-queſtioner
The king of Keretaria, a small Munchkin Country, thinks
he must have an official questioner to annoy visitors to
his realm. The High Qui-questioner does this expertly,
aided by a golden staff tipped by a question mark. He
once tried to question Handy Mandy, but her answers
were so simple and to-the-point that the Hi Qui-ques-
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his game, that is, in which everyone but him is wrong.
Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 33. (T)
Hi-Lo
Inside a small mountain in the Quadling Country, not
far from the Emerald City, there is an elevator that rises to the very
top of that mountain. The operator of this elevator is a little wooden
man named Hi-Lo. Every day, he carries scores of Ozians up and down.
They are all curious to see Princess Ozana's lovely Story Blossom
Garden, which grows atop the mountain. The Magical Mimics in Oz,
p. 86. (S) /*
Hi-Lo, Mr. ~
The wife of Hi-Lo lives on top of the mountain in the
village of Pineville, a charming town in which the inhabitants are
wooden dolls carved from pine. The scent of the pine and the fresh
breezes make Pineville almost as much an attraction as Ozana's fairy
Story Blossom Garden. The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 92 (S)
Himſelf
The elf of the silver hammer appears and does the bid-
ding of anyone who strikes with the enchanted silver hammer. “Him-
self” is a leprechaun (which means he is an Irish fairy) and a very
wise creature. For a time, he and his silver hammer served Handy
Mandy and Nox the white ox. He now makes his home in the Emerald
City, where he serves Princess Ozma. Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 117. (T)




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Hip Hopper
ip Hopper is the champion wrestler of the under-
ground Hopper City, in the mountainous region of the
Quadling Country. As with all the Hoppers, Hip has
only one leg. We should like to see Hip hopping about
in a wrestling match, with all the watching Hoppers
hopping up and down, no doubt hopping mad should
Hip Hopper happen to lose! The Patchwork Girl of Oz,
p. 272. (B)
Hippenſcop
This young Stratovanian, who serves in the royal court
º TS of King Strut, took part in one of the most bewildering bits of Oz his-
tory we ever hope to read. Jellia Jamb is all mixed up in it, and Hip-
penscop turns out to be the little Oz maid's special friend. With Ozo-
%3 * planes zoooooooming! all about, there is more excitement than we have
room to tell about. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, p. 82. (T) ſº
º sº
Hip-po-gy-raf * (,
Whatever this creature is, we are sure he is the most
hyphenated animal in existence. It takes three hyphens to hold him to-
gether. He resembles both a hippopotamus and a giraffe, and he eats
straw. Of course, this is all hearsay, for Hip-po-gy-raf lives in the In-
visible Land of the Munchkin Country. But one thing we are sure of
the Scarecrow once met him and got the stuffing eaten out of him, but




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he later found the creature wasn't such a bad sort, after all. The Tin
Woodman of Oz, p. 240. (B)
Hi-Świnger
The King of Swing City, Quadling Country, flies through
the air on a trapeze. Naturally, he does it with the
greatest of ease for he's had lots of practice. Even
though swinging on a trapeze may look like lots of fun
on TV or in the circus, how would you like to have to
“get into the act” and swing giddily, high above the
earth, with no practice at all? Since that's what happens
to strangers who come to Swing City, most folk stay
away from there and remain strangers to Highty, King
of Swing. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 180. (T)
His Woodjeſty
"Way over in a remote section of the Winkie Country,
there lives a “tree man.” He is a gnarled old person who rules over the
Twigs, a strange, bush-like people. His Woodjesty is the only one who
can keep the young Twigs in line and stop them from beating-about-
the-bush when they have misbehaved! Kabumpo in Oz, p. 222. (T) º
Hokus of Poke;
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Many, many years ago, right here in the great outside
world in England, there lived a young knight. In his first battle,







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Hopfrog Equire
An enterprising bullfrog conducts a bathing beach on a
brook near a waterfall in the Quadling Country. Bull-
selected an ideal spot for his work, for the Southland of
the Quadlings is the warmest and sleepiest of all the Oz
countries. The Scalawagons of Oz, p. 182. (T)
lº. Humpy
º, In that fabulous Fairyland of Hollywood, in the State
of California, where nothing is too unusual to happen, there once was
a dummy named Humpy. He was a “stunt man” who performed all
those dangerous feats too risky for live actors. Humpy was very happy
when he found himself in Oz, appreciated for himself alone, and no long-
er the dummy he had once been. The Lost King of Oz, p. 131. (T)
º * Hungry T.ger
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Friend and comrade of the famous Cowardly Lion of
Oz, the Tiger is hungry because he has a longing to eat fat babies.
Fortunately, his conscience is many times stronger than his appetite.
Dorothy and the other Oz folks who know the Hungry Tiger well will
assure you that he would be horrified at the very thought of being angry






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with a baby, much less devouring one! Still, the Hungry Tiger likes to
build up this baby-eating jungle legend about himself, never forgetting,
of course, that he does have a very powerful conscience.
Most Oz-readers believe that the Hungry Tiger first
appeared in Ozma of Oz, but we think he may have been introduced
in The Wizard of Oz. In that book, (see page 193) the Cowardly Lion
answered a tiger's pleas for help and destroyed a beast which had been
devouring the forest animals. The Lion promised this tiger that, once
Dorothy was safely on her way home, he would return to the forest and
become King of the Beasts. We can conclude that the Lion did this, for
he does not appear in the second Oz book, The Land of Oz. But, in the
third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, the Cowardly Lion reappears with a
friend, the Hungry Tiger, both of them arriving in the Emerald City
(where they still live) from the jungle. Do you agree with our “sup-
poses”? The Wizard of Oz, p. 193. (B) º
Hurrywurree
The Chief Counselor of the Quix, of Quick City in the
Winkie Country, is Hurrywurree the Worst. You'll want to hurry
through Quick City as quickly as you can, for the Quix are, without ||
doubt, the most unpleasant and disagreeable people in all Oz. The
ºf Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 163. (T)
º : ; -
º, Hyacinth
/*- This lady was Queen of Uptown and wife of Joe King
when we first met her in this Oz book. But Joe was due for a promo-
tion and, in later Oz books, became King of the Gillikins. No matter
what her station, Queen Hyacinth is always gracious and gentle. The
Giant Horse of Oz, p. 151. (i)


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Janu
Ianu is a little girl who lives with her mother, father
and brother in the Valley of Voe, where all the people are invisible
because they eat of the Dama fruit. The Voe people have chosen this
diet, not only because it is so delicious, but because it makes them in-
visible and thus safe from attacks by the ferocious invisible bears of
Voe. (Because Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, perhaps the people of
Voe have named their fruit after him. If you rearrange the letters in
Dama, you can easily spell Adam.) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,
p. 95. (B)
Imperial Perſuader
Although he hoped to be able to tell people what to do
and make them want to do it, the Imperial Persuader
was only mildly successful, even in his native country of
Keretaria. Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 32. (T)
Imperial Squamoſ
Under the spell of this wicked “cooky.
witch,” an entire village was pickled, preserved and jarred.
The Cowardly Lion and company narrowly escaped be-
ing canned as mincemeat. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p.
215. (T) - / Yº-
Inga —º I'll
The boy prince of Pingaree was the hero of some of the
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three magic pearls, a fat and jolly king named Rinkitink, and a goat
called Bilbil, Prince Inga conquered two islands ruled by a fierce war-
rior king and queen and almost overcame the power of the infamous
Nome King. He did all this in his efforts to free his beloved father and
mother, the rulers, and their enslaved people. Inga's bravery and
courage brought aid quickly from Ozma. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 21. (B)
*~~
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y Ipply
Here's one royal scribe with whom we wouldn't change
places. Ippty was once royal historian and scribe of the Kingdom of
Rash, in the Land of Ev. One unhappy day, he stole the Hungry Tiger
of Oz, whom he hoped to persuade to devour the innocent prisoners of
the wicked Pasha of Rash. And that's one idea Ippty shouldn't have
popped up with, for it bounced him right out of Rash onto a lonely
island in the Nonestic Ocean. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 16. (T)
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Iomere &
Isomere is a fairytale princess who is, even now, living
the “happy ever after” part of her life. There was a time, though, when
Isomere's husband was known as Realbad the Bandit, and she didn't
even know where her son was. We know, of course, that her son's name
is Ojo, and that he is now the Prince of Seebania. Ojo in Oz, p. 287 (T)




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Matiah the wizard captured Iva, a young kitchen boy,
and held him captive in the Nome King's tunnel, under the Emerald
City. Iva escaped and played a large part in liberating Ozma and
putting Matiah out of business as a wizard. The Wishing Horse of Oz,
p. 253. (T)
Just above the Munchkin Country is the Country of Un.
ź. Its former king had the unlikely name of I-wish-I-was.
% The Uns have the heads of birds, with brightly colored
feathers, and the bodies of human beings; hence, they
are called Featherheads. For the most part, the Uns are
a most unpleasant people. The only good Un, who is
now their king, is Unselfish. The Cowardly Lion of Oz,
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panion of Tip. Made by a mischievous boy and
brought to life by an old witch, good-natured Jack masquerades
as a man with a pumpkin head and is a
Hallowe'en prank all in himself
An “oz FAN'" FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH “J”
One who can enjoy the Jack Pumpkinheads of any world,
for their warm and simple selves, and who is now a registered Citizen
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good qualities are so many and so endearing that every-
one loves him. There are worse things to have in one's
head than pumpkin seeds! The Land of Oz, p. 20. (B) -
Jaguar -
A jaguar once happened upon the Scarecrow, the Tin
Woodman, Polychrome, and Woot the Wanderer as they were adven-
turing through the Winkie Country. The poor beast hadn't eaten for
days, and he felt he would be compelled to eat either Woot or Poly-
chrome, much as the travelers interested him. He preferred Woot, for
he feared that Polychrome, because of being the Rainbow's daughter,
might be rather soggy and misty. Polychrome helped him out of this
dilemma by preparing a magic breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast.
Since the magical omelette consisted of five dozen eggs, with two dozen
loaves of bread on the side, the jaguar was quite satisfied and very
happy to be friendly. The Tin Woodman of Oz, p. 113. (B)
Jak
The Horners, whose chief is named Jak, live in a cave
city in the mountainous southern part of the Quadling
Country. Jak thought it a great joke on the Hoppers
(who have only one leg per person) to say that their
understanding was less than that of the Horners. But the
pun didn't pan out, and Jak couldn't understand why!
(For goodness sake, don't confuse this Jak Horner from a
corner of Oz with the Jack Horner in his corner of Mother
Gooseland! They aren't even cousins-twenty-times-re-
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Jam
_- From his home in Ohio, small Jam traveled to the Land
! of Oz in a crate attached to a Collapsible Kite. Among
A his Oz adventures were the conquering of Terp, the
* Terrible Giant, and the freeing of the people of the Hid-
den Valley, in the Gillikin Country, from Terp's terrible
power. When his adventures were over, Jam wanted to
go back home to Ohio. The Wizard, who had once
traveled in that state with a circus, knew exactly where
to return Jam, and back to Ohio sailed boy and Kite.
The Hidden Valley of Oz, p. 17. (C)
Jazzma
Tune Town, in the Winkie Country, is ruled by Queen
Jazzma, who has very short hair and a rather loud voice. Some of the
older residents of Tune Town complain that Jazzma is much too mod-
ern for their taste. (And it is whispered that Jazzma, herself, is now
worried about a saucy young upstart named Bee-Bopma who has just
come to Tune Town and is even noisier and less melodious than Jazz-
2 a ma.) The Nome King of Oz, p. 202. (T)
º y Jellia Jamb
º º º Ever since Ozma became ruler of the Land of Oz, her
º, &
personal maid and companion has been Jellia Jamb, and a great friend-
º ship has grown up between the two girls. Pretty, lively, and always
*T faithful, Jellia is one of the best-known and best-loved personages in
the royal palace of the Emerald City. You will recall that Jellia was a
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interpreter for the Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead when Jack felt he
couldn't understand Scarecrow language. The Land of Oz, p. 77. (B)
Jenny Jump
-
When Jenny was angry, she jumped. Her anger on one
occasion was so great that she jumped all the way from her home in
New Jersey to the Land of Oz, bringing with her a bad temper and a bit
of magic given her by a leprechaun from Weehawken. No sooner had
she arrived than she decided to rule Oz. She organized the first Oz
election and was ready to run against Ozma. Finally, for the good of
Jenny and Oz, it was decided that her propensity for ill temper, envy,
and ambition had to be changed, and this the Wizard brought about.
Jenny still jumps, however; the last time she was heard of, she had
jumped down to the age of eleven. The Wonder City of Oz, p. 17. (N)
º,' 'º'
As wizards go, Glegg was a pretty bad sort, for he mixed
~ Gillikin Country, and he mixed up everything at Ozma's Royal Palace,
- - too. But J. Glegg found that Mixed Magic is nothing to mix into, for he
ended his dark career in the darkest fashion imaginable—as a heap of
black soot. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 286. (T)





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streets, Jim the cab horse was retired to the Hugson Ranch in Cali-
fornia, where he pulled only the light ranch buggy. On this same ranch
worked Zeb, a young boy whose uncle was Bill Hugson (also Dorothy's
uncle). When Zeb hitched Jim to the buggy and went to the railroad
stop to meet Dorothy and take her to the Hugson ranch, he didn't
anticipate the earthquake that threw Dorothy, Eureka, Jim, and Zeb
into a great crack in the earth's surface—the “opener” of such adven-
tures as Zeb and Jim had never dreamed could happen. Finally, they
arrived safely in the Emerald City, where Jim made the mistake of
running a race with the tireless Sawhorse. Poor Jim was so humiliated
at being beaten by a wooden horse that he wanted to get back to
ranch life, where there would be no wooden steeds, and Zeb, too, de-
cided he was better fitted to be a rancher in California than an ad-
venturer in Oz. So Dorothy used the Magic Belt to send them back to
the Hugson ranch. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 16. (B)
Jinjur
J injur, a vivacious young girl, once raised an army
composed of pretty maids from all four Oz countries.
Armed with hatpins, the Army of Revolt moved on the
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from the throne, in the days before Ozma came to rule.
It was Jinjur's idea that Oz had been too long ruled by
men, who were now to stay home and do housework.
But Jinjur made the mistake of allying herself to old
Mombi. Glinda the Good then stepped in and ended
General Jinjur's career as a lady soldier. Jinjur is now -
happily married and on the best of terms with the Scare- ºg
crow, Ozma, and other Oz folks whom she once opposed. (*. º
The Land of Oz, p. 83. (B)
Jimmicky --~~~~
In his kingdom in the Land of Ev, across the Deadly" º
Desert from Oz, the Red Jinn lives in a jar stuffed full º
K of magic. Jinnicky is a thoroughly likeable fellow and
"º uses his magic to help everyone whose cause is just. Once,
he traveled to the Land of Oz to help the Purple Prince
free the royal family of Pumperdink. Our Jinnicky pre-
fers to live in a jar, he says. The truth of the matter is
that the Red Jinn is so plump no bottle would fit him.
But a jar—that's mighty comfortable for a roly poly Jinn.
The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 140. (T)
\º
Jo Apple Elc
This may not be very Who's Who-ish, but we're going yº
to put right here all the members of Queen Anne's Oogabooian Army ºf
who are named Jo. When Queen Anne set out to conque Oz, she en- ; ) is
listed all the men in her tiny kingdom except one. They were commis- ºg
* *.
sioned as follows: as Generals: Jo Apple, Joe Bun, Joe Cone, and Jo -
Clock; as Colonels: Jo Plum, Jo Egg, Jo Banjo, and Jo Cheese; as





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Mayors: Jo Nail, Jo Cake, Jo Ham, and Jo Stockings; as Captains: Jo
Sandwich, Jo Padlock, Jo Sundae, and Jo Buttons. Jo Files became, for
a short time, the only private in the army, and every army must have
its “private files,” you know. The one Jo who refused to go to war was
Jo Candy, for he felt he must stay home to harvest his crop of Jackson
balls, lemon drops, bon-bons, and chocolate creams, so that the chil-
dren of Oogaboo would not be disappointed. As you may have guessed,
each of these Jos grew in his own orchard the thing for which he was
named. Tik-Tok of Oz, pp. 17, 18, 19, and 20. (B)
74.
* Joe King
º ** Once a mountaineer in the Gillikin Country and King of
the Uplanders of Uptown, a sky city of Oz, Joe King lent his famous
steed, the Giant Horse, to young Prince Philador, so that the prince
might liberate his country from bondage. Joe is now King of the Gil-
likins, and what a merry monarch he is! The Giant Horse of Oz, p.
137. (T)
Joker
: 4 Mr. Joker is a funny little clown who lives in the China
º % Village in the Quadling Country. Since he is made of china and is very
gº brittle, it is no wonder that Mr. Joker is a little cracked. But the cracks
tº in his head seem to make him all the funnier as a clown. The Wizard
º ! of Oz, p. 187. (B)
º/".
º - John Dough
John Dough the First, King of the Two Kingdoms of
Hiland and Loland, is made entirely of delicious gingerbread, and he/






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was brought to life by an Arabian"elixir of life. Before becoming king
of the twin countries that lie just over the Desert from Oz, John Dough
enjoyed many wonderful adventures in the company of Para Bruin the
rubber bear, and Chick the Cherub, in the country of Mifkets and with
the fairy Beaver King on the Isle of Phreex. John is so good-natured
that he once allowed part of himself to be eaten so that a sweet little
princess might be restored to health by the Magic Elixir he contains.
The Road to Oz, p. 220. (B)
Johnny Cake
Johnny Cake may have been a runaway when you first
heard about him, but now he is a cheerful old gentleman who lives in
the town of Bunbury, Quadling Country. He has traveled a lot, being
well known outside Oz, and he loves to tell long-winded tales of his
adventures. The fresher Bunbury folk are of the private opinion that
Johnny is getting a trifle stale. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 188. (B)
This fairy friend of the Shaggy Man is never without } \ i.
his chest of tools. Working cheerfully and swiftly, Johnny Dooit can º
build almost anything out of nothing, in almost no time at all. Once, |
Johnny built a sandboat that carried Shaggy and his friends safely ¥
across the Deadly Desert to Oz. Later, Ozma honored Johnny by in-
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Johnnan
There was once a wonderful “wozard" in the Gillikin
Country. (A wozard is not quite as powerful as a wiz-
ard.) This particular wozard was named Ozwoz, and he
traded one of his wooden soldiers, named Johnwan, to
the Red Jinn of Ev for a magic cookie jar that always
stayed full, no matter how many cookies were taken
from it. Personally, we think Ozwoz got the better of the
bargain, but Jinnicky was pleased with his trade. John-
wan is now the personal bodyguard of the Purple Prince
of Regalia. The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 233. (T)
Jol Jemkiph Soforth
A long time ago, Jol was King of Oogaboo, a tiny
country in a desolate corner of Oz. Jol's wife had such a sharp tongue
that the poor hen-pecked fellow crept over a mountain pass into Oz
proper and has never been heard of since. A few years later, his wife
followed. (We hope she didn't find him.) Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 14. (B)
—º
Junnenrump 2 &
High in the sky over Oz is Stratovania, a land in which
all people live out-of-doors under canopies. Junnenrump is the busiest
servant boy in that land. Look under any canopy and you'll find him.
busily fetching and carrying, always ready to jump-en-run for any of
the canopy people. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, p. 125 (T)



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you have seen. Which would you be like—
Rinkitink—who was so well loved that he had to scamper off
on a vacation for relief? Or like Ruggedo, who was
so wicked that he was banished from
his own kingdom?
AN “oz FAN' FR i End whose NAME BEG 1 Ns witH “K”
One who can laugh, cry, and be merry at the exaggerated
antics of kings, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land
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Queen of Stratovania, a country high in the sky, Kabebe
behaved like many other high-strung ladies do when their
husbands are absent: she tried to run the country. High
as it was, Queen Kabebe almost succeeded in running
Stratovania into the ground. Ozoplaning with the Wizard
of Oz, p. 99. (T) -
Kabumpo
-
When Prince Pompadore of the Kingdom of Pumper-
dink set out to search for his “Proper Princess,” Kabumpo the elegant
elephant was his faithful companion. Not only is he an elegant ele-
phant; he is an elegant fellow too, and the people of Oz, as well as
thousands in the great outside world, are very fond of Kabumpo, Ka-
** Kachenka
-ºš Since he is the Royal Counselor of King Sizzeroo, of
Umbrella Island, Kachewka is supposed to do the king's
thinking for him. Fortunately for both of them, being
king of Umbrella Island is a flighty business and doesn't
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Kalidahſ
- Dreadful beasts called Kalidahs attacked Dorothy and
her friends when they were journeying to the Emerald City on the
“road of yellow brick.” The sharp wits of the Scarecrow and the sharper
axe of the Tin Woodman saved the adventurers from these fierce ani-
mals. The Kalidahs have bodies like bears and heads like tigers. Per-
haps they got their name from kaleidoscope, the pretty toy children
love to look into because it shows pictures ever-changing and many-
shaped. But we hope none of us ever sees a Kalidah when he looks into
When first we heard of Kaliko. he was Chief Steward
of the Nome King. Later, when Ruggedo had been banished from his
underground kingdom, Kaliko became King of the Nomes. Everyone
had thought him a pleasant enough fellow—for a Nome—but, when
power was put into his hands, he used it to mistreat the king and queen
of Pingaree. Like some folks in the great outside world, Kaliko didn't
\{ know how to use success. Ozma of Oz, p. 186. (B)
Kangaroo
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Kangaroo to reach the village, where old Grandmother Gnit, his friend,
sits and g-nits mittens for him, day in and day out—that is, when she
isn't scattered over the landscape. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 129. (B)
Kapooſa
Kapoosa is the Major Dumbo of Menankypoo in Gno-
man's Land, near the Kingdom of Rinkitink. Like all Menankypooians,
Kapoosa can't talk. These odd people never speak, but converse by
means of words that appear on their foreheads. Maybe this is what peo-
ple mean when they say they can “read our thoughts.” Pirates in Oz, G
º
p. 27. (T)
Gatekeeper of the royal palace of Regalia, in the Gilli-
kin Country, Kayub failed only once in a long career to guard the gate.
That was when Kabumpo, the elegant elephant, rumbled in to call on
King Randy. Gates and gatekeepers have never bothered Kabumpo,
but Kabumpo bothered the gatekeeper! The Silver Princess in Oz, p.
23. (T)
Kerr
For a time, Kerr ruled as King of Keretaria, in the
Munchkin Country. However, he was a villain and an imposter, and so
he couldn't last long in Oz. Handy Mandy gave him a hand down from
his throne. Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 33. (T)

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14 The rightful boy-king of Keretaria, Kerry was a prisoner
of the wicked Wizard of Wutz, while Uncle Kerr occupied his throne.
Handy Mandy and Nox, the white ox, soon put everything right. To-
day, King Kerry and Keretaria are as happy as any young king and his
country have a right to be—and that's pretty happy in Munchikinland.
Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 213. (T)
Kettywig º-rºº º
Brother to King Pompus of Pumperdink, in the Gillikin
Country, Kettywig is a deep-dyed villain. He once allied himself with
the witch, Princess Faleero of Follensby Forest, to steal the throne of
Pompus. Kettywig thought he was pretty smart, but he met his match
in Faleero, who took over the throne and provided Kettywig with a
nice, tight cell in the palace dungeon. When rascals put their heads
together, one of them is likely to lose his head. Certainly, in this deal,
Kettywig didn't get a-head! The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 38. (T)
Kik-a-Bray
Dunkiton is a community of donkeys, whose inhabitants
declare they are the smartest beings alive. They have no streets in
their towns, and their buildings and houses have no numbers. The don-
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them get about. King Kik-a-Bray was so impressed with the good man-
ners and polite words of the Shaggy Man that he gave that unfortunate
person a donkey's head, which didn't please Shaggy at all. Kik-a-Bray
was much surprised at this for, like all donkeys, he thought no other
existence could be so fine. And Shaggy found it very hard to stop being
a donkey! The Road to Oz, p. 79. (B)
At one time, Kiki Aru was a cross, disagreeable, unhappy
boy living in Hyup Land on Mount Munch. Then, he
learned a secret of transformation, made friends with—
of all people!—the Nome King, and caused a great deal
of trouble. In order to cure Kiki of his trouble-making,
he was forced to drink of the waters of the “Fountain of
Forgetfulness', upon doing which he immediately forgot
all his wickedness and became a normal, happy youth.
The Magic of Oz. p. 21. (B) -
Kind, Joly º
The King of Kimbaloo, in the Gillikin Country, has ex-
actly five hundred subjects—two hundred and fifty girls and two hun-
dred and fifty boys. Kimbaloo was one of the happiest kingdoms in all
Oz until Kinda Jolly made the mistake of hiring Old Mombi the witch
as castle cook. What a stew she cooked up! But even that turned out
all right, and Kimbaloo is once more one of the merriest kingdoms you
can find. The Lost King of Oz, p. 13. (T)



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King of Corabia
For five hundred miserable years, owing to a wicked
spell, the King of Corabia and all his subjects dwelt as
fish in the depths of a turbulent stream. But when Speedy
had a date, he kept it (it was only the stone he threw
away!) and so the evil spell was magically broken and
strange things began to transpire, which restored the
King of Corabia, his queen, and his subjects to their
proper places and opened a wonderful door of happiness
for the beautiful princess. The Yellow Knight of Oz, p.
248. (T)
King of Corumbia
The same evil spell which held the King of Corabia in
thrall rooted the King of Corumbia and all his subjects, deep into the
ground as trees. Without the assistance of Confido, the Sultan's con-
fiding Fido, neither spell might ever have been broken, and there might
never have been a story about The Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 227. (T)
King of Fix City
Neither the people of Fix City, Winkie Country, nor
their king, ever move about; they just stand fixed in one place, And so,
their furniture, trees, bushes, scenery and so forth move about for them.
For our part, we wouldn't want to be fixtures in Fix City, but we may
be getting close to it, here in the great outside world, where we have
so many machines and gadgets to move about for us. The Royal Book
of Oz, p. 170. (T)

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King of Play
Over in the Winkie Country, there is a band of people
living in a forest who do nothing but play. With most of us, play is fun
and relaxation after work. With these Play Fellows, play is hard work.
They play so hard and so constantly that they might as well be hard at
work doing something useful. Grampa in Oz, p. 233. (T)
King of Shuttertown
Shuttertown is a kingdom in the Winkie Country.
(There seem to be so many kingdoms in Winkieland, no doubt the
Winkie folk have a housing shortage too!) The king just sits on a chim-
ney in Shuttertown and closes shutters over his face to anything he
doesn't like to see. (There have been incidents in the history of the
great outside world at which folk have “closed their shutters"—many
of them). The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 219. (T)
* King of k Fairy Bºnn
Across the Deadly Desert from Oz, this little monarch
of the industrious beavers lives in his underground kingdom, where he
once helped John Dough and Chick the Cherub in their time of need.
Again, he went along with the Shaggy Man, Twink, and Tom on their
journey to the Land of Oz, displaying some beaver magic that was a
surprise even to the Shaggy Man, accustomed as he was to magic and
wizardry. The Shaggy Man of Oz, p. 172. (S)

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King of the Figure Head;
As a king, this one is a dismal disappointment, for the
- / King of the Figure Heads is nothing more than an ordinary school ruler,
A and he rules the City of Rith Metic. His subjects have thin, wiry bodies
on which are mounted, as heads, numerals such as “2”, “5”, “7”, and so
A forth, up to “10". For all the ruling of their ruler king, the Figure Heads
tº are so stupid that, if they weren't all together looking at one another's
heads, not one of them could count up to ten! Kabumpo in Oz, p. 66. (T)
King of the Soup Sea
- Here is a curious creature made of soup bones, with a
cabbage head! He rules happily in a sea of delicious soup, somewhere
in the Gillikin Country. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 164. (T)
King of the Winged Monkeyſ
As servant of the Magic Cap, when owned by the
Wicked Witch of the West, the King of the Winged
Monkeys led his band to capture Dorothy and her com-
panions. Again, when Dorothy possessed the Cap, the
Winged Monkeys carried Dorothy and her friends to
Glinda the Good, who made it possible for Dorothy to
return to Kansas. The Wizard of Oz, p. 117. (B)
- º, Kitticut
King Kitticut is the father of Prince Inga of Pingaree,
a small but beautiful island noted for its pearl fisheries. Because of the








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wealth of Pingaree, the island was once attacked by fierce warriors, and
King Kitticut and his queen were sold into slavery to the Nome King.
Only Prince Inga survived, as you can read in Rinkitink in Oz, p. 20. (B) A-,
Kleaver º
_- -- ~~~~
-— –
You've probably seen cleavers in butcher shops, but
not live ones, which is what King Kleaver is. He lives in the Kingdom
of Utensia, in the Quadling Country. The people of Utensia are all
live kitchen utensils: spoons, forks, knives, saucepans, etc. The strang-
est thing about Utensia is that there is not a cook or a single thing to
eat in the whole kingdom! The Emerald City of Oz, p. 170. (B)
º Kojo
º Kojo is a three-legged Tripedalian servant of the friend-
ly little giant, Nandywog, in a valley in the Gillikin Country. Randy and
- Kabumpo will always remember their visit with Nandywog as one of
the more pleasant happenings in The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 107. (T)
King Konk lives on an island in the Nonestic Ocean,
where he rules the Shellbacks, an odd kind of people who eat shells.
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them, Konk flew into a rage and said some “hard” words—in Shell, of
course. The three thought they would have to use another kind of shells
(ball, shot and bombshell) to “konker” King Konk, but the Shellbacks
turned turtle, and our adventurers thankfully turned their backs on the
Shellbacks. Pirates in Oz, p. 123. (T) º
º,
Jinxland is really a part of Oz, but it is remotely situated
and separated from Oz by a deep chasm. This was a most unhappy
land when ruled by King Krewl, and everyone was glad to see him de-
throned by the famous Scarecrow, and the beautiful Gloria, the coun-
try's rightful ruler, crowned queen in his stead. King Krewllanded
another job in Jinxland, where he is now palace gardener. The Scare-
crow of Oz, p. 140. (B)
he made the Tin Woodman of Oz and, later, the Tin Soldier. But
when he made the mistake of working in flesh-and-blood (which is



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certainly no work for a tinsmith) he created Chopfyt, who, if you re-
call, was “always someone else.” The Tin Woodman of Oz, p. 216. (B)
- Kuma Party
in º * This fellow is able to overcome many problems which
& Pºtrouble us. When Kuma Party wants to go for a walk, he sends his
legs out to stretch, and the rest of him stays at home to answer the
doorbell. When he wants to attend a concert, he just sends his ears; his
eyes, alone, go to the picture gallery. And so it goes—or rather, so goes
Kuma Party. He is the son of the remarkable wizard, Wumbo the
Wonder Worker. The Nome King of Oz, p. 129. (T)
Kumup
Sifting all the facts about Stairway Town, Gillikin Coun-
try, we find that it and its king are about the most stupid in all Oz, for
subjects and ruler just walk up and down stairs all day long. If only
someday one of them would fall downstairs—but nothing ever hap-
pens! The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 96. (T)
King Kynd was the father of Princess Gloria, of Jinxland.
King Phearce stole the throne from King Kynd, and King Krewl stole
it from King Phearce. The Scarecrow gave the throne back to Gloria,
who was, by this time, rightful ruler of the realm. The Scarecrow of Oz,
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is for LovE. “The Land of Oz is love,” observes
Ozma in Tik Tok of Oz. This wise ruler
knows that love works astonishing wonders and transformations,
for love is the most powerful magic of all
An ‘‘Oz FAN" " Fri End whose name BEGINs witH " "L""
One who is ever ready to love the good creatures of story
who bring so much joy, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the
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chuckle all day and all night long. They are not too pleasant, though,
for they laugh not with, but at people. The Lost King of Oz, p. 75. (T)
º
2.
Lazy Quadling
Meet the laziest man in Oz. This Quadling lived beside
a river. In order to get him to build a raft, which they needed to cross
C
the river, the Scarecrow and his friends gave Lazy some “square meal
tablets”. Since the man was too lazy to eat, this was the first square
meal he'd had in ages. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 306. (B)
Leopard -
Right out of the heart of the forest of the Winkie Coun-
try comes this leopard to prove, once and for all, that a leopard can
and does change his spots—in Oz. Sometimes this leopard's spots are
stars; sometimes they are moons; sometimes squares, or oblongs, or
triangles—and sometimes—new shapes never before heard of The
leopard was a good friend to Jam, and no matter how furiously his
spots changed, his loyalty never did. The Hidden Valley of Oz, p.
129. (C) º
Li-Mon-Eagº &º
In reality, these two creatures, who existed for only aI -
short time and made much trouble in the Forest of Gugu, were the
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º - Ruggedo, the old Nome King, once had a servant with
very long and very sensitive ears. By putting his ears to the ground,
this Nome could hear sounds occurring thousands of miles away. Yet
when the Hearer caught the sound of the marching feet of the Army of
Oogaboo, Ruggedo pulled those ears until it's a wonder they aren't
two feet longer. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 104. (B)
yº ! Loo
) Gugu, ruler of the Forest of Gugu, in the Gillikin Coun-
try, has for counselor a unicorn called Loo. When Loo became a man
for a short time, he acted in a very foolish manner. Now that he is again
a unicorn, he is very much ashamed of the idiotic pranks he played
when he had two legs instead of four. The Magic of Oz, p. 82. (B)
Lord High Freezer
For the most part, the Winkie Country enjoys the de-
lightful, not too warm temperature which prevails in Oz
the year 'round. Still, there is one place in Winkieland
called Icetown. The Lord High Freezer is the cold fellow
- who keeps things iced in Icetown. It is our opinion that
the Lord High Freezer needs to be de-frosted. The Hid-
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Lord High Humpus
The only important thing Lord High Humpus of Per-
haps City (Maybe Mountains, Winkieland) ever did was to rush Prince
Tatters into marriage with Princess Pretty Good. We understand that
they have a curious marriage ceremony in the Maybe Mountains:
when it is time for the groom to say, “I do,” he just says, “Maybe.” That
custom might be very popular with certain people here in the great
outside world. Grampa in Oz, p. 242. (T)
Lord High Mayor
Not only is the Lord High Mayor very tall,
but he lives in Hightown, far up in the air over the Valley
of Romance, near the Land of Ev. Up in Hightown, there
is absolutely no gravity, although the people are always
grave. The Lord High Mayor issure histown is the world's
center of culture and interest. The Shaggy Man of Oz,
p. & (S)
º
*ſº -
º Lord High Upper Dupper
º º This nobleman held a high place in the Court of Kere-
taria, in the Munchkin Country. It was his duty to put people in their
places. The Lord High Upper Dupper was convinced that the proper
place for everyone who didn't agree with him was the Keretaria Klink.
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Lorna
Little is known of Lorna except that she is a wood
nymph for whom three strands of emeralds once were
made. The emeralds came complete with enchantment.
! Like so many precious stones, these magic emeralds
º spelled bad luck for some people, once they had been
' stolen from Lorna. The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 241. (T)
Loxo
Loxo the Lucky was once a tremendous giant living in
the Quadling Country. Today, the tables are turned, and
Loxo is no longer a giant; instead, he is just a rather insig-
nificant farmer. Speedy in Oz, p. 28. (T)
- -4-3
º º Lucky Bucky
* A A Lots of small boys go to New York Harbor to see the
ſº sights, but we'll wager Lucky Bucky is the only small
boy who was ever blown out of a tug boat in that harbor
º into the Nonestic Ocean! Once there, Lucky Bucky met
y a wooden whale named Davy Jones and traveled with
him to the Emerald City. He liked the adventures he and
Davy had on the way to the Emerald City, where he can
be found even today. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 17 (N)


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is for MUNCHKIN—the blue country in the west
and probably the most famous of the four
Oz countries. Dorothy's house landed, you will recall, on
Munchkin land when the powerful
Kansas cyclone carried her to far off Oz
An ‘‘Oz Fan" FR i End whose NAME BEGINs witH “M”"
One who knows the magic of the enchanted “blue land"
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, Marcia
The Queen of Mudland has just one distinction: She is
undoubtedly the homeliest woman in Oz. In fact, she is
probably the origin of the expression "ugly as mud.” The
_3
- *2 & Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 48. (T)
The wife of Dr. Pipt, the “crooked magician." made the
Patchwork Girl from an old crazy quilt she found in her attic, and
various items from her sewing basket. Poor Margolotte had intended
the Patchwork Girl to work as her hired maid, without wages, of course.
But, after Ojo gave the girl an overdose of brains, that gaudy maiden
had her own ideas about life, and they didn't include being a hired
girl for anyone. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 26. (B)
Maribella
Maribella is a dainty sky-shepherdess and lives in the
clouds over Oz, and over the great outside world, too. She shepherds
the stars across the sky every night. Not even the smallest star ever gets
lost in the vast expanse of night as Maribella herds them safely across
the sky, to make room for the coming day. Grampa in Oz, p. 201. (T)




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AMemo
This curious little Winkie man never does anything
without writing it down on a pad. He has a twin brother named Ran-
dum who is just the opposite of thoughtful little Memo. (We have met
folks just like both Memo and Randum in our own world.) The Royal
Book of Oz, p. 186. (T)
Dº Miſket;
: º Across the Deadly Desert lies the Nonestic Ocean, and
\ ^4/ on an island in that ocean live the Mifkets. These people
once had visitors to their island in the persons of John
Dough and Chick the Cherub. They treated John and
Chick as mischievously as they did the Scalawagons. The
Mifkets and the Scoodlers may be the same people, since
they look so much alike. But the Mifkets can't remove
their heads, and the Scoodlers can. The Scalawagons
of Oz, p. 55. (N)
AMira
The Marchioness of Muckengoo, a dismal spot in the
otherwise bright Winkie Country, is the sister of Queen Marcia of
Mudland. Mira is only a shade better looking than her sister. It seems
that any number of mud packs has failed to improve the appearance
of these grimy ladies. The Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 48. (T)
Mir-erable Meſmerizer
A poor little half-wizard of the Baron
Lands, in the Quadling Country, the Mis-erable Mes-




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Q merizer should know better than to mess around with
º- magic, but he kept right on meddling and getting into
more and more messes. Once, he gave his master a flow-
ing beard—it turned out to be of the kind of whiskers
that flow at the rate of six feet per minute! Jack Pumpkin-
head of Oz, p. 84. (T)
º The Mist Maidens are about the most attractive crea-
tures you could hope to meet on a hot day in August. They live in a
valley in the Gillikin Country, and are lovely and light as gossamer.
To see them in their sheltered valley, cool, graceful, and floating, you
would think them made of the air itself—and they are. Glinda of Oz,
p. 53. (B)
Mixtuppa
Mustafa is the Ruler of Mudge, a tiny country in the
Munchkin Land, and Mixtuppa is his wife. However, the lady might
give you an argument about even that, for she is so confused she isn't
sure of anything. Clocks make Mixtuppa furious for, every time she
looks one in the face, it shows a different time. Which proves, to her,
that clocks are unreliable since they keep changing all the time. The
Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 17. (T)
Moſt
A curious animal, half monkey and half fish, Mo-fi lives
in a sea-forest in the Nonestic Ocean. If you can imagine
º y a monkey that can swim and a fish that can climb trees,
º' that's the Mo-fi. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 221. (T)
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-
Known as the Mighty, the Baron of Baffleburg, Quad-
ling Country, the only thing really mighty about Mogo-
dore was his ambition. He actually wanted to conquer
Oz and marry Ozma, but he was very quickly put in
his place, which was back in his castle. He is content to
remain there now, a midget in his tiny kingdom, hoping
* that some day a nice little Baffleburgundian maiden will
come along and consent to mend his socks for him. Jack
Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 112. (T)
Mombi
\, \ Probably the most famous witch in the Land of Oz,
old Mombi played a very large part in the making of Oz history. She
guarded the secret of Tip's origin very closely, and it was only when
	he boy ran away from her that old Mombi got into real trouble.
Even then, she did not give up without a struggle, and she fought even
the powerful sorceress, Glinda the Good. Glinda finally compelled
Mombi to tell the truth about Tip's real identity. You'll be surprised
when you find out all about it in The Land of Oz, p. 16. (B)
**Moſ
-- º -- A clockmaker named Mooj separated a whole royal
- family of Oz and caused a great deal of trouble. The King of Seebania
became Realbad—a bandit, because of Mooj. His queen, Isomere,





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a s
\
º
º
ſº
mourned her husband and son for years because of Mooj. And Ojo
didn't know who his parents were for many years, because of Mooj. As
it turned out, Mooj was a better trouble maker than he was clock-
maker. Ojo in Oz, p. 181. (T)
Moonlight
/ This lady doesn't live in Oz alone—she lives on high in
the heavens, and you can see her almost every night. Hundreds of
popular songs and poems have been written about her, and to her. She
is a soft and dreamy-eyed damsel who serves Erma, the Queen of
Light. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 129. (B) -
Mopſ. Aru
On the top of Mount Munch, in the Munchkin Country,
live the Highups, of which Mopsi is one. In her own country, she is
noted for her ability to make very tasty huckleberry pies. She is also
famous as the wife of Bini Aru, once a famous sorcerer, and the mother
of Kiki Aru, who became involved with the wicked Nome King. The
*Magic of Oz, p. 21. (B)
º
Muddle
Muddle is a Middling and lives somewhere under the
(
º in the Land of Oz. These Middlings are most unattractive peo-
- / ſ
J C
-
ple, made of mud, twisted roots, and chunks of coal, just as you would
expect of those who dwell underground. When the Scarecrow was
falling down his family tree, he was stopped by Muddle and the King
of the Middlings, who made the stuffed traveler pay a toll before he
was allowed to continue his journey. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 44. (T)
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Nº Mugly
\- N On the fringe of Oz, near the Deadly Desert, live the
Headmen, people consisting of nothing but heads. Mugly is one of
these folks who cry out whenever a traveler is seen in their land, “Off
with his body!" The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 69. (T)
Mugwump
General Mugwump is Commander of the Army of the
Silver Islands, a realm lying below the surface of the Munchkin Coun-
try. The general and his army are famous for their decorations. How-
ever, whenever there is trouble, no one can find General Mugwump and
his soldiers. But, when the battle has been won by civilians, the general
and his army march victoriously in, to receive medals and honors.
The Royal Book of Oz, p. 114. (T)
Munchkin Farmer
This farmer once made a scarecrow from an old suit of
Munchkin clothes and perched him on a pole in a cornfield. Of course,
you know what happened after that. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 37. (T)
Muſtafa
Ruler of the barbarous Kingdom of Mudge, in the -
. . sº southwestern part of the Munchkin Country, Mustafa was once a great
º
º lion fancier. He had 9999 lions, but he wanted one more—the Cowardly
Lion of Oz. By the use of trickery and magic, he captured the famous
Lion, only to have both him and the other 9,999 lions turn into stone.
The Cowardly Lion was finally restored to life, and Mustafa was pun-
ished for his evil doing. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 15. (T)


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Nadj
The Queen of Norroway, a tiny island in the Nonestic
Ocean, likes nothing better than a fight. The truth is that she has been
fighting her neighbors of Roaraway Island for the past three centuries
Speedy in Oz, p. 189. (T) /*
- K §
This pretty little girl of the Land of Ev is the personal
maid of the haughty Princess Langwidere. Many people thought, when
Nanda was appointed, that she would be jealous of her mistress, who Upºn
has thirty heads. But such is not the case, for in Nanda's one head there
is a great deal of common sense. Ozma of Oz, p. 86. (B)
Nandynog
The “little” giant of the Gillikin Country is one of the
friendliest and best-natured giants you'll ever meet.
Nandywog is called “little” because he is a mere twenty-
four feet tall, and that is short by giant standards. The
Purple Prince of Oz, p. 103. (T)
º Nifflipok
ºf \ To be a good servant, one must have a good master.
Niflepok was a bad and frightened servant because he worked for the
King of the Silver Mountains in the Gillikin Country. If he had worked
for someone good and kind, Nifflepok would have been his naturally
good-hearted and willing self. Handy Mandy in Oz, p. 141. (T)






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Nikobo
Here is a hippopotamus who proved to be the best friend &
a prince ever had. Nikobo of Patripanny Island has a huge body con- * .
taining a warm heart filled with kindness and affection for Prince Tandy.
He now lives in Ozamaland with Tandy. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 92. (T)
º Nikobob
When Prince Inga of Pingaree conquered Coregos and
freed his people from slavery, he sent a charcoal burner
named Nikobob back to Pingaree to supervise the rebuild-As,
ing of the plundered island. So capable was Nikobob that º -
King Kitticut, Inga's father, appointed him Lord High ~ 2.
Chancellor. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 142. (B) ſº
- - - * | º l
Nimmie Aimee º'
A long, long time ago, Nimmie Aimee loved first a wood-
man, Nick Chopper, and then a soldier, Captain Fyter. But the wicked &
witch for whom Nimmie worked enchanted the axe and the sword of º * *
- -
~ * >
these two, respectively, so that they cut themselves to pieces. Out of sº |
these pieces, Ku Klip, the master tinsmith, made a new man named -
Chopfyt, named for both the Tin Woodman and the captain. With this
º misfit combination as her husband, Nimmie Aimee seems to be content.
Hº- The Tin Woodman of Oz, p. 274. (B)
Nina
Until Jinnicky, the Red Jinn of the Land of Ev, came
--- 	o Nonagon Island, poor Nina, the cat, didn't know what kindness <
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meant. Now she purrs day and night in the comfortable castle of the
Red Jinn. The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 208. (T)
º º º º Nine Tiny Piglets
Once a sailor visited the Island of Teenty-Weent,
where everything is very small, and found nine tiny piglets. He took
them to Los Angeles and sold them to the Wizard who was performingº
in a circus. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 63. (B)
Noma
Beware the Raggle Taggle Gypsy Band! Noma was one -
of the gypsies who stole Ojo away from his friends. She lured him into
one of the gypsy wagons. Ojo in Oz, p. 26. (T)
Nome King
Formerly known as Roquat the Red and Roquat of the
Rocks, this old Nome, who was once King of all the
Nomes, is now called Ruggedo. He has tried on several
occasions to conquer Oz, and he once led a horde of
vicious creatures through a tunnel under the Deadly
Desert to the Emerald City. Now the old Nome King is
| "a wanderer on the face of Oz, all because of his own evil
) doing. The present King of the Nomes is Kaliko and,
while he is not so wicked as the former king, he still
slips from good behavior occasionally and has to be
straightened out. (Gnome is spelled Nome in this book
because Professor Wugglebug agrees with Mr. Baum,
who spelled the word this way.) Ozma of Oz, p. 163. (B)
145 Fin nºt wº ºf ºr * wrº-
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Octopuſ,
& ºr * Since this pussycat is so-named, has eight legs, and lives
on an eight-sided island (in the Nonestic Ocean) she has only eight
lives. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 233. (N)
A long giant with a short name, the less
said about Og, the better. This Ogre of Ogowan was shut
up in a mountain for five hundred years. Pirates in Oz, p.
226. (T)
Ojo
For a long time, no one but Unk Nunkie knew that Ojo
was a prince. Ojo's father, the rightful ruler of Seebania,
was meanwhile posing as Realbad the bandit. He met
Ojo, without knowing the lad was his long-lost son, and
the two became real friends, having some fine adventures
together. Ojo was used to adventure, for he had had
many before he met his father, as you'll discover to your
pleasure in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 19. (B),
Omby Amby
Omby Amby's flowing green whiskers have been a 5. º
familiar sight around the Emerald City ever since the Wizard caused º
that fabulous city to be built. With the coming of Ozma, the “Soldier'
with the Green Whiskers” was given three appointments: as Guardian
of the Gates, as the Royal Army, and as the Royal Police force. See also,
WANTown. The Land of Oz, p. 67. (B)









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- \.
* Opah
- A long time ago, Orpah the merman was captured and
held slave of Quiberon, a monster who lurked in the Lost
Lake of Orizon, in which the Ozure Isles are located.
But the evil sea monster was vanquished, and Orpah now ---
lives happily in Lake Orizon with his fine stable of sea
horses. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 94. (T)
Overman-Amu
The champion fighter of the Valley of Voe once was
noted far and wide for his bravery in facing the fierce, invisible bears
that roam this beautiful valley. One day Overman-Anu climbed the
spiral staircase to Pyramid Mountain, leading to the country of the
dread Gargoyles. After fighting the Gargoyles nine days, he escaped
and returned to Voe. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 98. (B)
Owl Man
This Phanſasm met General Guph on his way up Mount
Phantastico and led that Nome into the presence of the First and Fore-
t of Phantastico. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 118. (B) -Q_^
º
* * . . . .
* Once upon a time, long ago, Queen Lurline flew with º
band over Oz and saw that it was a most beautiful land, so %
º,
beautiful that she caused it to become an enchanted fairyland. She % //
her fairy
left a tiny baby fairy to be its ruler (who, of course, was Ozma). Then %
she flew over the Deadly Desert to Mount Illuso, where the evil Mimics % º
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dwell. There she left one of her fairy band, Princess Ozana, to stand
guard against the wicked Magical Mimics, lest they attempt to harm
º
NN the Oz folk. The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 112. (S)
ſº
** `s * ~ * N \ ^__
s * - 2 * ~~~~
ºf Ozaeruſ
'N A rather unimportant little servant to Silly, the King of
• Cave City, Ozeerus flashes the “blue flame” on people and thus trans-
forms them into shades and shadows. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 173. (T)
Ozgaºl.
The Princess of the Rose Kingdom, near the Land of //
Ev and the Nome Kingdom, is a distant cousin of Princess Ozma. The º
Shaggy Man and Betsy Bobbin picked Ozga from the Royal Rose Bush A
on which she was growing. But the haughty rose subjects refused to \
recognize her as their ruler, for they wanted a king. Later, Ozga met
Private Files of the army of Oogaboo, and they became firm friends.
Ozma, realizing it would make them unhappy to be parted, sent them
both back to Oogaboo. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 58. (B)
Ozma
- Princess Ozma of Oz is one of the most powerful fairy
\'rulers in the world. After being freed from Mombi's enchantment by
Glinda the Good, Ozma ruled her country so well that she was loved
V, by all her people. In a time of crisis, when the Nome King built his
J tunnel under the Deadly Desert and threatened to conquer Oz, the
º girl ruler refused to fight. Because of her goodness and her faith in
right over might, the Nome King was vanquished and his ugly horde of











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warriors turned helplessly away. Ozma once made a long
and dangerous journey to the country of the Nomes, to
rescue the royal family of Ev from slavery. This adven-
ture nearly led to Ozma's own enslavement by the Nome
King. Ozma has opened her heart and the Land of Oz to
a number of friendless and homeless people from the great
outside world. Kindness and love, more than her magical
powers, have made Ozma the most dearly-loved of all
* *
º Cº- Ozwold
His mate once left Ozwold the Ostrich with a huge egg,
from which it was his duty to hatch his son. Ozwold did this with the
aid of Scraps, a little boy from Philadelphia, and other companions.
Through all the hatching process, Ozwold traveled constantly, his long
legs carrying him through some mighty exciting adventures. The
Gnome King of Oz, p. 190. (T) jº
- - 2 º'
The wonderful "wozard" of the Gillikin Country guards `
his comfortable castle with two thousand huge, wooden soldiers. He
commands these wooden-headed soldiers with his “wozardry” (not quite
so powerful is wizardry). The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 225. (T)



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Pajonia
The tiny daughter of Prince Pompadore of Pumperdink
and his wife Peg Amy, the beloved Pajonia is still too small to have had
many adventures, but her mother and father saw some really exciting
times in The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 22. (T)
Pajuka
When old Mombi was exerting her most wicked magical
* ſº powers, she enchanted the baby Ozma. At this time, she
º º transformed Pajuka, prime minister to Ozma's father,
Pastoria, into a goose. Old Mombi insisted that Pajuka
had always been a goose, needing only feathers and a º, j,
beak, and she confessed she had forgotten what had sº {v_
happened to Pastoria as the result of her evil magic. Pa- Gº tº
juka might have been a goose, but he was also a loyal º
subject. He remained faithful to Pastoria and eventually
regained his identity. The Lost King of Oz, p. 21. (T)
º
Palumbo
One of the steadiest men in Oz, Palumbo is the court
juggler of the Ozure Islands, Munchkin Country. It is said that he is
such a great juggler he can balance even a budget. Since there seems
to be no such thing in Oz as money, we wish Palumbo would come into
the great outside world, where his talents would really be appreciated.
The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 22. (T)
Panapee
Another of the royal chamberlains of Oz, Panapee
served Mustafa, the Monarch of Mudge, in the Munchkin Country. He
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got his ruler into real trouble when he put into Mustafa's head the idea
of stealing the Cowardly Lion. For, once they had the Lion by the tail,
they couldn't let go! The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 18. (T)
Instead of a watch dog, on Umbrella Island they have
Pansy, the Royal Watch Cat. Although Umbrella Island wanders all
over the wide expanse of the sky, Pansy has never had a “Sirius” fight
with the “Dog Star". Her favorite spot in the sky is the Milky Way.
Speedy in Oz, p. 17. (t), ---
Panta Loon º.
The Loons of Loonville, in the Winkie Country, are
nothing more than human-sized balloons, inflated with a lighter-than-
air gas. Panta and the rest of the Loons live in the tree tops, fastening
themselves with cords so they won't float away. Although Panta once
captured the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and Woot the Wanderer,
he was quick to see the point when Woot showed him a thorn. The Tin
Woodman of Oz, p. 52. (B)
Para Bruin
Para is a full-size bear made of genuine rubber, with
nothing synthetic about him. He is the constant companion of John
Dough and Chick the Cherub of Hiland and Loland. If you think
bouncing a rubber ball is fun, you ought to try bouncing a rubber bear!
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Paſtoria
This pleasant old gentleman was another victim of
having forgotten all of his past life, with the Blanks of Blankenburg,
under the surface of the Gillikin Country. Poor Pastoria was forced to
become a tailor with these strange people who had no visible bodies.
However, he was rescued from this fate by Snip, a little Gillikin boy
who was also one of Mombi's victims. When Pastoria's memory had
been restored and he was revealed as the “lost king” of Oz, he abso-
lutely refused to accept the throne from Ozma, or even share it with
her. He wanted only to have a little tailor shop in the Emerald City with
Snip, whom he had come to love dearly, as his button boy and faithful
assistant. The Lost King of Oz, p. 178. (T) ºf ºf -º- º or
- // f : ºt. ( & )
* * * *
ſº-
- - - vº \
º The Prime Patter of Roganda is a little blue dwarf who
& lives in Unicorners in the Munchkin Country. What does Pat pat? He
pats all the beautiful unicorns, and grooms and cares for them, too.
Ojo in Oz, p. 230. (T)
Patchwork Girl
Nicknamed Scraps, the famous Patchwork Girl of Oz was
made from an old crazy quilt of Margolotte, wife of Dr.
Pipt, the Crooked Magician. Just before the Crooked
º, Magician brought Scraps to life, Ojo added more magic
º Abrains to her head than Margolotte meant her to have.
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Scraps had other ideas about that. Instead, she went
along with Ojo on a series of exciting adventures, ending
in the Emerald City. Here, Scraps became an immediate
favorite. Although she may be too boisterous at times,
this fault is readily forgiven in the light of her sunny good
nature, high spirits, loyalty, and abounding love of life.
Not many flesh-and-blood people have as much fun as
Scraps, the “crazy quilt” maiden. The Patchwork Girl
of Oz, p. 35. (B)
º Per Hapſ
- º The only time the jolly monarch, King Peer Haps of
º ſy Perhaps City, atop the Maybe Mountains of the Winkie Country, was
w ever unhappy was when his Court Prophet stole the beloved Princess
Pretty Good. Percy Vere, the forgetful poet laureate of Perhaps City,
made a dangerous trip down the mountain to search for the princess.
As you well know, Percy Vere persevered through many an odd adven-
ture until he found Princess Pretty Good and made old Peer happy
once more. Grampa in Oz, p. 96. (T)
| º -
jº- -
Pºg Amy
- Would you believe that a wooden doll could become the
A Princess of Sun Top Mountain in the Gillikin Country? It
happened! And Peg Amy was the doll's name. It seems
N. a wizard (wicked, of course) named J. Glegg changed
\ Peg Amy into a tree, to avenge himself on her uncle.
Cap'n Bill carved a small doll from that tree, and Trot
named the doll Peg Amy. Next, the Nome King stole the
doll and made it, through his bungling magic, as large as







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a person. He also brought the doll to life, but that is just
part of the wonderful story of Peg Amy, all of which you
can read in Kabumpo in Oz, p. 80. (T)
Pºggo
Peggo was a swashbuckling pirate who swashed over-
board when his legs buckled. He thought he was going to conquer Oz,
but he only succeeded in putting his wooden foot in his mouth. Pirates
in Oz, p. 61. (T)
Pºpper and Salt
These are two guards in the Kingdom of Rash, in the sº
Land of Ev. Pepper and Salt feared they might be thrown to the <-
Hungry Tiger, to season Betsy and her friends, who already faced that
fate. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 77. (T)
Percy
AE, Once an ordinary white rat, doomed to be the victim
/ of experiments in a professor's laboratory, Percy came
- to Oz with a little boy named Jam. What Oz did for
sº that rat is really worth reading about! Now as big as
º a human being, he is a very popular member of the
animal set of Emerald City. The Hidden Valley of Oz,
p. 29. (C)
Percy Vere
The court poet and prime favorite of King Peer of
Perhaps City invariably forgets the last word of his jingles and rhymes.
Percy doesn't exactly write blank verse, he just leaves the last word of







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º Peter Pun --~~
*~~
Once court jester of Corumbia, in the Winkie Country, \_º
^ Peter Pun told too many “punny" jokes and got turned into a funny-
~ suckle vine. The Yellow Knight, having no sense of humor, released
him. His fate might well have served as a warning to Professor Woggle-
bug, but the professor says he knows too many influential wizards and
wozards in Oz to be frightened! The Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 138. (T)
Phearſe
Just as bad as his name sounds, Phearse stole the throne
of Jinxland from King Kynd. Following this wicked theft, Phearse got
himself pushed over a cliff by King Krewl, so that he was no longer in
any position to sit on a throne. The Scarecrow of Oz, p. 248. (B)
When we first heard about Philador, Prince of the Ozure
Islands in the Munchkin Country, he and all his family were captives
of a water monster known as Quiberon. So Philador started out to find
help in conquering the wet beast, finding it in the giant horse and


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succeeding in settling Quiberon's hash once and for all.
(In fact, we understand that the Ozure Islands are still
dining off Quiberon hash!) Philador is now Prince of the
Munchkins. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 29. (T)
r Not a very nice name, for a not very nice person! Pid is
one of the Slow Pokes, who live in the Country of Pokes, Munchkin
Country. He was once the servant of Sir Hokus of Pokes, now the
spirited Yellow Knight of Oz. But Pid was such a slow Poke, he stayed
where he was, while the Yellow Knight went on to happier lands and
events. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 78. (T)
Pigaſuſ
This winged pig lives in the Emerald City and once
helped defeat the Nome King, who is still trying to con-
quer Oz. Pigasus can soar sky high, which might (but
doesn't) account for the high cost of pork roasts. Any-
one who rides on Pigasus must speak in poetry, for this
steed brings out all the ham in his riders. Pirates in Oz,
p. 190. (T)
Pinny and Gig
These are two of the happiest guinea pigs in Oz. Pinny
and Gig escaped from a professor's laboratory and now live in a Munch-
kin country home, where they are beloved pets. They have recently
become good friends of the nine little piglets belonging to the Wizard.
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the Land of Ev, required great patience and Pinny Penny
was greatly relieved when King Skamperoo went away
to visit Oz. He was even more delighted when his ruler
returned, for the king now no longer behaved like a
spoiled child, as he had before he made his historic trip.
Once a tremendous thunderbolt carried this Princess of
Anuther Planet to the Land of Ev. Planetty was made
of metal, as are all the people on her planet. She found
it a “hard” life and was glad to become the flesh-and-
blood Queen of Regalia, wife to King Randy. The Silver
Princess in Oz, p. 103. (T)
*issil
º Poppa
* A giant mud turtle named Ploppa lives in a swamp in
the Mudland Kingdom of the Winkie Country. You wouldn't expect a
turtle to be noted for a good disposition, perhaps, but Ploppa is the one
good-natured being in this sticky land of mud. He once helped Sir
Hokus escape. The Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 39. (T)






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Polychrome
- * The Daughter of the Rainbow lives on the beautiful bow
you see arching across the sky following rain. Occasionally, this lovely
sky fairy dances off the foot of the rainbow and onto solid earth. On
several occasions, she has heedlessly danced on, and her father, the
Rainbow King, has lifted his bow without knowing he has left one of
his daughters behind. At one such time, Polychrome enjoyed adven-
tures that led to the Land of Oz and the Emerald City. The Road to Oz,
tº p. 60 (B)
\
|
* Pon
\ \ There are “from rags to riches” stories in the Land of Oz
º as well as elsewhere. Pon was once a gardener's boy in the palace of
|º the Kingdom of Jinxland, so poor that he wore rags. Now he sits on
ºr a throne, doesn't work at all, and wears only the finest of clothes. The
º Scarecrow of Oz, p. 131. (B)
, - -
Pop Lollypop
t all day and lets his
daughter, Little Minty, clean the house and do all the work. The Scala-
wagons of Oz, p. 35. (N)
* O Poppet
º Poppet is a handsome young doll who faithfully and
º musingly serves Princess Ozana of Pineville. You may recall that
fe
&%* |Pineville is near Cuttenclip Village and the Story Blossom Garden, in
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Preſerva
/
ºlº / This queen of a strange glass city in the Munchkin Coun-
try has gone to too many cooking schools, we fear, for she has pre-
served all the people in her city. Evidently, her motto is, “Like those –
whom you can, and those whom you can't like, can!” The Cowardly sº
Lion of Oz, p. 212. (T) r- lº
The Prime Piecer does piece work in the Crazy Quilt sº
Kingdom of Patch, in the Winkie Country. He once tried to piece to-
gether a plot which would make Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, Queen of
the Quilties. But Scrapps soon scrapped with the Piecer, and his plot
went to pieces. The Nome King of Oz, p. 7. (T)
Prime Preſerve
The chief servant of Queen Preserva in the glass city
of Munchkinland, where everyone is jellied, preserved, canned and
jarred, is not accountable for his actions. The reason for this is that
he is pickled. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, p. 209. (T)
Prime Pumper
*I Radio stations have chief announcers, but the Prime
Pumper is a chief announcer without a radio station.
He chiefly announces distinguished visitors to the royal
court of the Kingdom of Pumperdink, which is in the
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Prince of the Mangaboo:
Distinguished by the star he wears, the prince of the
inner-earth Kingdom of the Mangaboos took Dorothy and the Wizard
to see Gwig, the vegetable sorcerer. These Mangaboos are all as cool
as cucumbers. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 34. (B)
Prince Perix
An unlikely sort of prince, this one! He had a good
chance to leap on his white horse and go in search of Princess Pretty
Good. Did he go? No, Prince Perix just stayed at home in Perhaps City
and let the court poet steal the glory he might have won. Well, it takes
all kinds of princes to make a kingdom. Grampa in Oz. p. 105. (T)
Prince Pompadore
The royal family of Pumperdink, Gillikin Country,
was once threatened with "disappearance if Prince Pompadore did not
marry the "Proper Fairy Princess. Pompadore and Kabumpo, the ele-
gant elephant, set out in search of such a princess. You can imagine
what wondrous adventures they had. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 18. (T)
/ ºº º,
- ~ - -
Princeſ of Monday Mountain
º
/ f ** Queen of the Tubbies, together with her large, well-
/ & scrubbed daughter, rules over the washerwomen of Monday Mountain,
Z in the Winkie Country. Percy Vere spent one Monday morning in very
~~~~ hot water because the princess wanted to keep him. Grampa in Oz,
** * p. 190. (T)
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Princeſ of the Mangaboo:
Although Dorothy picked this princess from the plant
on which she ripened (the Mangaboos are vegetable people) the
wicked princess was as cold-hearted as the rest of her subjects. She had
Dorothy and her friends driven into the Black Pit, from which the
This princess was stolen from her home in Perhaps cº
by a wicked wizard, who planned to transform her into a lump of
earth. But the Princess Pretty Good was so good that she became,
instead, a lovely flower fairy named Urtha. After many adventures,
she is now happily married to Prince Tatters of the Kingdom of
Ragbad, in the Quadling Country. Grampa in Oz, p. 100. (T)
Private Fileſ
The only private in the army of Queen Ann Soforth of
, Oogaboo, Private Files handed in his resignation when
Queen Ann ordered him to capture Ozga the Rose
Princess, Polychrome, and Betsy Bobbin. All Private
Files wanted to capture was Ozga's heart, which he did.
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Profesſor Grunter Swyne
º This happy pig is an authority on "cabbage culture" and
º ºr “corn perfection.” Professor Swyne lives with his wife and one child
in a tiny cottage in the Munchkin Country. The Tin Woodman of Oz,
- p. 254. (B)
Props
When the theater was in operation in the castle of the
Valley of Romance, Lord Props was in charge of the sound effects,
stage furniture, etc. He bungled everything badly, but he is doing
very well, today, as instructor of the finger painting classes in the
College of Arts and Sciences in the Valley of Romance. The Shaggy
Man of Oz, p. 118. (S)
Pudge
Like many another wise man, Pudge, sage of the coun-
try of Ragbad, Quadling Country, is very good at telling other people
what to do for the good of their country. Meanwhile, he sits back in
an easy chair, awaiting results. Grampa in Oz, p. 25. (T)
Puffup
Some folk have a tendency to puff up when they are
close to really important personages. This footman in Ozma's royal
palace is one of that sort, putting on all sorts of airs because of the
people with whom he associates. He really is quite ridiculous as com-
pared with the natural and unaffected Ozzites, such as the Patchwork
Girl, the Scarecrow, Dorothy, and Ozma, herself. Handy Mandy in
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23 A
General and Commander of the Pumperdinkian Royal >
Army, Gillikin Country, Quakes is celebrated for never having lost a
battle, which naturally makes him quite a person in Pumperdink. It is
considered the worst possible taste to bring up the fact that General
Quakes has never fought a battle. That, it seems, is a military secret.
Kabumpo in Oz, p. 27. (T)
Queen of Ev
The Nome King transformed this unfortunate queen
into a purple footstool to adorn his chamber of ornaments. What a
humiliation for a proud queen to suffer! But Billina, the Yellow Hen,
discovered the Nome King's secret—that the entire royal family of Ev
were all purple ornaments. So Billina had only to look among the
thousands of variously colored bric-a-brac to release the royal chil-
dren from their enchantment. They included five princesses: Evanna,
Evrose, Evirene, Evedna, and Evella; and, four princes: Evrok, Eving-
ton, Evroland, and Evardo, the eldest, who is the present King of Ev.
Ozma of Oz, p. 219. (B)
Queen of the Bigwig,
Immense City is in the Nome Kingdom and is in-
habited by no one but Bigwigs. Their queen wears the biggest wig of
all and is a very proud and overbearing lady. As long as it is daylight,
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she is nearly 200 feet tall; but, when night falls and she removes her
“big wig,” she shrinks to a little lady of five-feet-two. The queen is
never seen without her wig, although she has very nice brown hair of
- her own. She also has one little daughter, who is only about 150 feet
tall—in the daytime. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 208. (T)
ſ
º
ºf Queen of the Field Mice
º º Mr. Baum really should have found out the name of this
delightful character when he wrote about her, for this tiny queen and
her subjects twice played an important part in the history of Oz. In
The Wizard of Oz, the field mice rescued Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion
and Toto from the field of deadly poppies, in which they had fallen
asleep. In The Land of Oz, the Queen of the Field Mice gave the Scare-
crow permission to carry a dozen of her little subjects in his straw, to
the Emerald City, where he released them. The mice frightened the
girl soldier of General Jinjur's Army of Revolt and enabled the Scare-
crow to regain his throne. The Wizard of Oz, p. 74. (B)
* * *
ſ *
º | º
Queen of the Scoodler,
ſº 4. A strange creature rules over the Scoodlers, who inhabit
a rocky, barren section of land just across the Deadly Desert from Oz.
The Scoodlers have two faces and two sides, and their feet are shaped
like the letter “T” turned upside down. They can remove their heads,
and, when they find strangers in their land, they throw these heads at
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Dorothy and her friends and were preparing to make soup of them.
Polychrome's cleverness and the fact that the Shaggy Man played base-
ball when he was a boy saved the group from the Scoodlers' soup kettle.
The Road to Oz, p. 116. (B)
Quiberon
Quiberon is a fire-breathing, smoke-snorting monster
which old Mombi produced from out of her closet. She
placed Quiberon in the Lost Lake of Orizon, so that
none of the inhabitants of the five Ozure Isles of Oz
might ever return to the mainland. The Wizard of Oz
quickly tamed Quiberon, and Lake Orizon is no longer
smoky. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 20. (T)
Quick Siher
Far below the surface of the Munchkin Country lie the
Silver Islands, where Quick Silver is a servant in the royal palace. His
hair is silver-white, and he has a queue at least six feet long. Since he is
only four feet tall, that is too much queue. Quick Silver is the fastest
little man in the Silver Islands. Often, he finds himself returning from
an errand while he is still thinking about going! The Royal Book of Oz,
p. 105. (T)
Quiggeroc
The present general of the armies of the Nome King
hasn't been very active for a number of years. Possibly, Quiggeroc
thought about the fate of the generals who had preceded him and
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King has a habit of “relieving" his generals when they displease him.
Quiggeroc feels fine and doesn't want to be relieved. Lucky Bucky in
Oz, p. 127. (N)
Quink
Quink, Queen of the Shellbacks, who lives on an island
in the Nonestic Ocean, lives on a diet of shells, like all of her subjects.
It must be a noisy place at meal time! Pirates in Oz, p. 124. (T)
C - - -
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AS)
When this young dragon was only 3,056 years old, he
was sent, as an instrument of justice, on an important mission by
Tititi-Hoochoo the Great Jinn. Quox was so efficient that, as a result
of his mission, the wicked Nome King was deprived of all his magic
powers. Ruggedo was forced to leave his underground kingdom and
become a homeless wanderer on the face of the earth. At this time,
Quox was in great disgrace in his own land. In his youth he had
spoken disrespectfully of his famous ancestor, the Original Dragon,
the oldest living creature in Oz. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 141. (B) &
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of adventure, courage, love, and the
magically mysterious. R also stands for REILLY in Reilly and Lee,
the company which has published the Oz books
for half a century
An “oz FAN' FR I End whose NAME BEGINs witH “R”
One who has known the romance of high adventure in
the exciting pages of Oz, and who is now a registered Citizen of the
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prised if father was named Paddy Scratch. The Royal
Book of Oz, p. 187. (T)
Randy
- Randy's official name is Randywell Handywell Branden-
A burg Bompadoo, Prince of the Purple Mountains, on which is perched
the Kingdom of Regalia, in the Gillikin Country. Randy was required
to prove himself a proper Prince of Regalia. This he did to everyone's
satisfaction in The Purple Prince of Oz, p. 18. (T) - -
* º - --- *_ º
This good grey ape lives in the Forest of Gugu in they
Gillikin Country. Rango, an elderly ape, quite serious and scholarly,
is a counsellor in the court of King Gugu. The Magic of Oz, p. 82. (B) \
Rattleſnake
Not all like the rattlesnakes we know, this one is as
harmless as a baby's rattle. In fact, the Rattlesnake is a great favorite
of the Water Babies in the Nonestic Ocean. Once, he and the A-B-Sea
sººn traveled overland to Oz. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 30. (T)
Sº
- , Reachard
–º
---- --- This long-armed reacher is the right-arm man of the
A Dictator of Diksey Land, in the Munchkin Country. Reachard has


She neither helps nor harms anyone with her magic. Once, she was
tricked by a Skeezer boy named Ervic into restoring the three Adepts
to their natural shapes. Reera, with great good nature, admitted she
had been tricked. Since it had been done in a good cause, she did
not regret her action and bore no malice toward Ervic. Glinda of Oz,
p. 208. (B) - -
Renard
King Renard the Fourth, known also as King Dox of
Foxville, was so pleased with Button Bright that he gave the boy a
fox head. Since all the dogs he met barked at him, Button Bright was
not at all pleased. Finally, he bathed in the Truth Pond, where every-
thing false vanishes, and his boy head was restored. The Road to Oz,
p. 40. (B)
Rhomba
Far below the surface of the Winkie Country lies the
Kingdom of Subterranea. Here, Rhomba is the chief counsellor of
his Imperial Lowness, the Shah. Rhomba speaks low verse in a low
voice. In fact, you can't go any lower than Subterranea. The Yellow
Knight of Oz, p. 96. (T)
Rhyming Dictionary
Joke Book, formerly court jester of Book-
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kind to Dorothy and Jam and their friends. The Rhyming Dictionary
helped the travelers escape from Bookville, and then he went to live
in the Emerald City. He and Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, are the best
of friends; in fact, everyone likes him except Professor Wogglebug, who
didn't want me to mention him in this book. Wogglebug is a little
stuffy where books are concerned, and he insists that the Rhyming
Dictionary is a “popular" or “cheap" edition. Of course, he's popular;
but, cheap or not, he has a good heart. The Hidden Valley of Oz, p.
156. (C)
Rigmarole;
Inhabitants of a small outlying section of the Quadling
Country, the Rigmaroles are incapable of talking directly to the point
about anything. When asked a simple question calling for a “yes” or
“no” answer, the Rigmaroles launch into a lengthy harangue, making
their interrogators wish they'd kept their mouths closed. The Emerald
City of Oz, p. 232. (B)
Rinkitink
King Rinkitink is a fat, jolly little monarch,
who now lives happily in his capitol of Gilgad. At one
time, he was most unhappy, since he wanted to enjoy
life and see the world, but his people felt that a king's
place was in his castle. King Rinkitink escaped and fled
to the friendly island of Pingaree (in the Nonestic
Ocean). He took with him his talking goat, Bilbil. After a
succession of adventures and a pleasant visit in the Em-
erald City, he was quite content to return to his island
kingdom and quietly rule the Rinkitinkers. Rinkitink in
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Rora
Rora is the wife of Su-Dic, once the ruler of a strange
race of people known as the Flatheads, who lived in the Gillikin Coun-
try. During the war between the Flatheads and their neighbors, the
Skeezers, Rora was transformed into a golden pig by Coo-ee-oh, Queen
of the Skeezers. As a golden pig, Rora was just as foolish as she had
been as a woman. Seeing that the transformation made no improve-
ment, Glinda the Good changed Rora back into a woman. Glinda of
Oz, p. 82. (B)
Rosa Merry
This Queen of Kimbaloo, a tiny kingdom in the Gillikin
Country, has charge of half the country's five hundred inhabitants.
-==
Rosa Merry is responsible for two hundred and fifty girls. Each morn-
ing, these girls pick old- and new-fashioned bouquets from Rosa Merry's
bouquet bush and distribute them among the nearby Winkie people,
who are great flower lovers. King Kinda Jolly has charge of the coun-
try's two hundred and fifty boys, who harvest the button crop from
Kimbaloo's button woods and distribute buttons to the Winkie house-
wives, famous as seamstresses. The Lost King of Oz, p. 14. (T)
Nº. Rough Paſha
- The Pasha of Rash is known as Irasha, or the Rough
\
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Safety Pin Policeman ...”
This minor official does his best to uphold his office and
pin down law-offenders in the Winkie Country. But he is only a make-
º shift, with a copper badge. He tried to pinch Lucky Bucky and Davy
º Jones, but only succeeded in getting them to see the point. Lucky
\ ºn in Oz, p. 178. (N)
º
*~~~~
ºf Sally
º This salamander came originally from Lavaland Island
' in the Nonestic Ocean. Sally likes nothing better than to snuggle up
and have a nice warm nap in the hot bowl of King Ato's pipe. Maybe
Sally is what people mean when they say, “Put that in your pipe and
smoke it!” Captain Salt in Oz, p. 68. (T)
Salye Soforth
A strange part of this story is that it was not Salye, but
her sister, Queen Ann of Oogaboo, who sallied forth to conquer the
world. Queen Ann Soforth found this a foolish mission in a world much
larger than tiny Oogaboo, and she was soon happy to return to her
remote Oz kingdom. Salye had been queening it in Oogaboo while
Ann was gone—perhaps that was the reason she had goaded her sister
into sallying forth in the first place! Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 13. (B)
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Samuel Salt
Better known as Captain Salt of Oz, old Sam Salt was
once captain of a pirate ship and discovered more ad-
ventures than he did gold. After visiting Oz, he reformed
and became the official Royal Explorer, finding new
countries and claiming them for Oz in Ozma's name.
- º Now, he lives in the Land of Ev and is still having ad-
"ventures. Pirates in Oz, p. 81. (T) - *
º
Jandman
Everyone knows the Sandman. Once, the Nome King y
grew to giant size and carried Ozma's Royal Palace, on top of his head,
high into the clouds. Seeing it, the Sandman thought it was some child's
dream palace, and so he put all the flesh-and-blood people in it sound
asleep. Since he put the Nome King to sleep, too, he did more good
than harm. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 205. (T)
Janta Clauſ
The greatly loved and revered patron saint of all chil-
dren is included in this book because, quite fittingly, he once visited
Ozma to attend one of her famous birthday parties. Accompanied by
all his Ryls and Nooks, the forest creatures who help Santa fashion all
his wonderful toys, Santa Claus was the greatest and most highly hon-
ored guest at Ozma's party. The Road to Oz, p. 225. (B)






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Jawhore
Early in his adventures with Jack Pumpkinhead, Tip
realized that Jack would never be a speedy traveler because of his pe-
culiar construction and the tendency of his joints to bend the wrong
way. Tip was eager to get to the Emerald City, so, coming upon a
carpenter's sawhorse, he brought it to life with old Mombi's magic
Powder of Life. As the first, fleetest, and most famous horse in the
Land of Oz, the Sawhorse is the favorite of Princess Ozma, who re-
gards him as her royal steed and has had his wooden legs shod with
gold. The Land of Oz, p. 47. (B)
Jarecrow
Perhaps the most famous personage in Oz, the Scare-
crow was discovered by little Dorothy when the Kansas
cyclone first carried her to Oz. Dorothy helped the
Scarecrow down from the pole in a cornfield where a
Munchkin farmer had placed him, and the straw man
accompanied her to the Emerald City. There, after
many adventures, the Wizard of Oz filled the Scarecrow's head with
a mixture of bran and pins and needles. Since then, the Scarecrow
has been one of the wisest men in Oz. His famous brains have solved
many knotty problems and helped his friends out of many perilous
predicaments. For a short time, the Scarecrow reigned as King of Oz,
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Ozma, appeared to claim it. The Scarecrow now lives in a novel corn-
cob castle in the Winkie Country, near the beautiful nickel-plated pal-
ace of his bosom friend, Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, Emperor
of the Winkies. The Wizard of Oz, p. 24. (B)
Scarlet Spider
This creature actually threatened the peace of Oz for a
short time. But the evil magic which the Mimics had awakened in the
Scarlet Spider was not powerful enough to withstand the good magic
of the Princess Ozma. The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 175. (S) O
Sciſſor Bird
Ripper, the Scissor Bird, is an important personage in
the Winkie Kingdom. Once, the Scissor Bird, who has scissors for a
beak, planned to make the Patchwork Girl the Queen of the Quilties
of Patch. Scraps had her own ideas about the project, however, and
she very quickly scrapped Ripper's plans. The Gnome King of Oz, p.
17. (T)
Jevenanome
Together with Sixantwo and Fouranfour, Sevenanone
staged a revolution against King Ato of the Octagon Islands in the
Nonestic Ocean. They then set out to conquer Oz. But, although all
three of them add up to trouble, they don't add up to enough to con-
quer Oz. Now they are quite content to stay peacably at home on their
eight-sided eight islands. Pirates in Oz, p. 75. (T)

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Shpherd
\ \ - The Rolling Country is the most desolate section of all
M Winkieland. Only one person lives there—a lonely shepherd. You can
!'s well imagine the old fellow's puzzlement when, some years ago, he
R \ heard a knock on his door. On opening it, his amazement grew! He
".I was greeted by none other than Dorothy and a group of the most cele-
brated citizens of Oz. The shepherd made them comfortable in his
cottage over night, and then gave them valuable information about
the country that lay ahead of them. Dorothy noticed a strange thing
on this visit—the shepherd had no sheep! The Lost Princess of Oz, p.
86. (B)
Shirley Sunſhine
| Nº. This giddy girl has now settled down as the wife of
- º Belfaygor, Baron of the Baron Lands, Quadling Country. At one time,
Shirley nearly became the bride of Mogodore. Had she done so, she
would have lost the “Sunshine” in her name, for sunshine never pene-
tes the ugly world in which Mogodore does his perpetual moping.
:k Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 115. (T)
§
׺
{º,
g/ (Whooſenwaller
ſº --> This Nome is Royal Chamberlain of Kaliko, present
King of the Nomes, who in turn was once Royal Chamberlain for Rug-
gedo, the former Nome King. We sincerely hope Oz history doesn't
repeat itself as our history often does. Imagine—Shoofenwaller, King
of the Nomes! The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 188. (T)










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º, Siko Pompous
/NZºº, Siko is a leprechaun from New Jersey. He is very fond
of cheese and will grant almost any wish if you reward
him with a pound of limburger. He was responsible for
Jenny Jump's trip to Oz, and you can be sure the Oz
people don't love him for that. Siko just doesn't under-
stand Oz magic and has promised not to meddle any
more. The Wonder City of Oz, p. 21 (N)
Silly
This King of Silhouettes, the Shadow People of Cave
City, just below the surface of the Munchkin Country, would like to
reduce everyone to a shadow. Fortunately, his gloomy kingdom has
very few visitors. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 172. (T)
Singer of Raſh
Here's living proof that it's rash to be a singer if you
have a voice like a horse. The Singer of Rash wound up in a dreary
place called Down Town, which is reached by subway from the Land,
of Ev. There he is happily making money singing for the Down Town-
ers, who are so busy making money themselves that they don't have
time to stay and listen to his singing, even after they have paid to hear
it. This is an ideal situation for the Singer of Rash! The Hungry Tiger
of Oz, p. 50. (T)
Jºſer Six
There were so many children in the Munchkin farm
family from which Number Nine came that the mother and father
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despaired of finding names for all of them. So, they just called them
by numbers, and Sister Six was the sixth sister. (I wonder, if Sister
Six had had a twin brother, whether they would have called him
Half-a-Dozen?) The Wonder City of Oz, p. 186. (N) * :
23s
The King of Umbrella Island always wanted to travel,
but he didn't want to leave his island. That was a problem. Waddy,
Sizzeroo's Court Magician, cleverly solved this difficulty by building
a huge magic umbrella over the island. Immediately, it became a
floating island in the sky. After that, Sizzeroo had plenty of adven-
tures and travel, although he has never stepped off his island. (He'd
better not, for it's a long step down!) Speedy in Oz, p. 17. (T)
Skally
Skally is a member of the robber band of Chief Vaga
and his bandits, who lurk in a dark forest in the Quadling Country.
Now we're not going to tell you a thing more about Skally; we're just
going to make two additions to two words in the sentence before this,
and you'll know exactly what to expect when you read about Skally.
Ready? Skallywag is a member of the robber band of Chief Vagabond
and his bandits, who lurk in a dark forest in the Quadling Country.
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his unattractive country on tall stilts. Even though they have stilts,
Smirch and the Miremen don't excite my envy! The Yellow Knight
of Oz, p. 50. (T)
Jmith and Tinkers
Undoubtedly the greatest manufacturing concern in
all fairyland, Smith and Tinker's plant is located in the city of Evna,
the capitol of the Land of Ev. Here, Smith and Tinker tirelessly turned
out such masterpieces of mechanical perfection as Tik-Tok, the ma-
chine man, and the mechanical giant with the hammer, who guards
one of the mountain passes leading to an entrance to the Nome King-
dom. The original Mr. Smith had acquired the fashionable habit of
painting in his spare time. He painted a picture of a river so natural
that, as he was reaching across to paint some flowers on the opposite
bank, he fell into the water and was drowned. Mr. Tinker invented a
ladder so tall that he could rest the end of it on the moon. One night
when there was a full moon, Mr. Tinker climbed up his ladder. He
found the moon such a lovely place he decided to stay there, so he
pulled the ladder up after him—and he has never been seen sincel
Ozma of Oz, p. 55. (B)
Once there was a ferocious griffin who lost his grrrr!
He then became a mild-mannered iffin. How Snif the griffin was
scared out of his grrrr! is a most logical story, for he was held captive
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be a good thing—and this is one of those cases. For this particular iffin
became a perfectly delightful adventure-companion for Peter, the boy
from Philadelphia. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 67. (T)
A long time ago, Snip was one of the Button Boys in
King Kinda Jolly's Kingdom of Kimbaloo in the Gillikin Country.
Then, Kinda Jolly made the mistake of hiring old Mombi, the witch,
as the castle cook. Old Mombi needed a strong young boy to accom-
pany her on her search for Pastoria, the “lost king” of Oz. She chose
Snip and abducted him. Adventure followed adventure, and Snip
proved his courage by managing to outwit old Mombi and find Pas-
toria. The old king and the young boy became so fond of each other
that they formed a partnership and are now known for maintaining
the best tailor service in the Emerald City. The Lost King of Oz, p.
20. (T)
Jnoclorotomuſ
A most unpleasant earth serpent that lived in the
Munchkin Country bore this serpenty name. He was put away tem-
porarily by Realbad, the bandit. We are grateful to Realbad for dis-
patching Snoctorotomus, even for a little while. With a name like that,
he could be a serious nuisance to readers! Ojo in Oz, p. 197. (T)

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for six months and then eats away the remaining half of the year.
As you might suspect, yawning and gaping is a national pastime.
Snorpy failed to sell Kabumpo and party on sharing even so much as
a single bite with him, so great was Kabumpo's fear of sliding into the
queer habits of Gapers Gulchers. The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 56. (T)
Snufferbux
- This poor brown bear suffered five years of captivity
by a gypsy band that roamed through the Munchkin Country. Snuf-
ferbux found happiness through meeting Ojo when he, too, became
their captive. In the course of making their escape, they both met
with breath-taking adventures. Nowadays, honest Snufferbux is just
about the happiest bear in Oz; in fact, he is the Royal Bear of the
beautiful forest region of Seebania, in the Munchkin Country. Ojo in
Oz, p. 26. (T)
- Soft-ſhell Crab
This soft-shell crab didn't make his entrance on toast,
with tartar sauce as companion, but we're likely to wish he had. In-
stead, he came bouncing in upon the scene on the back of a zebra,
while Dorothy and her friends were camping in the Quadling Country.
His saucy conduct proved sauce enough for all. The friendly zebra
brought him forth from his forest pool with the hope of settling an
argument, but Mr. Zebra lost the argument and got pinched in the
bargain. The Emerald City of Oz, p. 159. (B)



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Spiker,
Somewhere in the sky over Oz, there is a horde of ter-
Ozoplanes, but the ship was too fast for them. The Tin Woodman
was pilot of the Ozoplane when this encounter occurred. One of the
spikers caught a glimpse of the Tin Man at the controls of the ship
and reported in a puzzled fashion to his comrades that he had seen a
little tin can rattling around in the big tin can. The Tin Woodman
regarded this as an unkind remark. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of
Oz, p. 76. (T)
Spud
Spud is one of the potato folks of a potato patch in the
Quadling Country. Just to put these saucy potato people in their
place, we will tell you a little story—a true one, too. Once, a long time
ago, there was a society of people who believed potatoes were un-
healthful and should not be eaten by human beings. They campaigned
against potatoes under the name of “Society for Prevention of Un-
healthful Diet.” See where Spud got his name? The Scalawagons of
Oz, p. 207. (N)
9 Squealina Śwyne
-> Squealina is the wife of Professor Grunter Swyne. With
| their children, they live in a small cottage near Mount Munch in the
Munchkin Country. Being the wife of a professor is sometimes trying,
but Mrs. Swyne seems quite content with her lot. The Tin Woodman
- º of Oz, p. 253. (B)
called “spikers.” They look like spiders, except that they "Y
are covered with sharp spikes. They attacked one of the Wizard's






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manages to get his lick into every pot, kettle and sauce pan used in
the Royal Kitchen. When someone over-eats and medicine is required,
Stirem is busy again, stirring the remedy well before it is taken. Ka-
bumpo in Oz, p. 15. (T)
Jīork
This kindly bird appeared briefly to play an important
part in the history of Oz. Very early in his career, the Scarecrow was
left clinging to a pole in the middle of a river. Since the Scarecrow
cannot swim, he might now be lying at the bottom of that river had
not the stork carried him to shore. Of course, the stork didn't mind
this at all, for he is used to carrying bundles. The Wizard of Oz, p.
68. (B)
Aff Sirulooviouſ
Known as Strutoovious the Seventh, or Strut of the Strat,
the haughty King of Stratovania lived in the Stratosphere
over Oz. He decided he could conquer Oz easily because
it was beneath him. But he was just flying too high, and,
instead of conquering Oz, he fell into a heap of trouble
with the Ozoplanes. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz,
p. 82. (T)
Stubby
Stubby, King of Tappy Town, put his foot down when
Realbad the bandit danced a clog. It seems that Realbad insulted the
king when he danced, for the people of Tappy Town talk by tapping
their feet. Ojo in Oz, p. 213. (T)

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Taka
Taka is the fat chancellor of Menankypoo, located
across the Deadly Desert from Oz. The last word we received about
Taka was that he and all the Menankypooians had been plundered by
pirates, and Taka had been thrown into the sea. For a time Taka
stupidly allowed himself to sink, but he found this very uncomfortable,
so he started to paddle. This happened a number of years ago, and it
may well be that, by this time, Taka will have paddled himself to
shore. Pirates in Oz, p. 38. (T)
Tandy
Tandy's full name is Tazander Tazah of Ozamaland,
which is located on the long continent of Tarara. Boglo-
dore, the Wizard, carried Tandy off into captivity on
Patrippany Island. After many exciting encounters,
Tandy returned home to Ozamaland and banished his
enemies. Captain Salt in Oz, p. 107. (T) sº L^
Tatterſ sº sº
* -º
When Ragbad, a small kingdom in the Quadling Coun---º
try, was reduced to poverty and King Fumbo lost his head entirely,
the handsome young Prince Tatters set out to find a fortune or a
wealthy young Princess. With Tatters went Grampa, an old soldier,
but not too old to answer his country's call. Tatters and Grampa had
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during which Tatters found both his fortune and his beautiful young
princess, though not just in the manner he expected. Grampa went
back to his comfortable rocking chair with enough new stories to
satisfy a whole new generation of Ragbadians. Grampa in Oz, p. 25. (T)
Tatlyoo
Tattypoo thought she was the Good Witch of the North,
but she couldn't remember anything about her past life, and her ideas
about herself turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Tattypoo
had conquered the Wicked Witch of the North, old Mombi, and the
peace-loving Gillikens begged her to rule over them. This she did,
using her magical powers to do only good. It was when Tattypoo
became curious about her identity that she found out who she really
was. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 105. (T)
Tazzywallerº
Once the Royal Chamberlain of Mudge in the Munch-
kin Country, Tazzywaller made a sad mistake by interesting his ruler,
the Mustafa, in lions. For Mustafa collected lions, and more lions.
When Tazzywaller confessed that he could not possibly add the fa-
mous Cowardly Lion of Oz to his king's collection, the poor chamber-
lain was demoted to feeding the lions. The Cowardly Lion of Oz,
p. 15. (T)
Taebo \ |
Once upon a time in Ozamaland, there were nine Oza-
mandarins. These fellows planned to divide Ozamaland into nine parts
and rule each separately. Teebo was third in rank among the Oza-



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mandarins, and that meant, by his kind of arithmetic, that he should
rule over one-third of Ozamaland. But Prince Tandy appeared on the
scene, and you never saw nine madder Ozamandarins. Captain Salt
in Oz, p. 261. (T) †
Ö.
Terp
This terrible giant once lived in the Hid-
den Valley of the Gillikin Country. Nowadays that is
all in Terp's terrible past. He has become just an average
Gillikin farmer and does nothing more terrible than to
raise huge heads of purple cabbage. The Hidden Valley
of Oz, p. 43. (C)
Once there were huge animals that roamed the earth,
larger even than the biggest elephants. Today, all that remains of
them is their bones. Scientists wire these bones together and recon-
struct the monsters for us to see. Being scientists, they had to give
them such difficult names as dinosaur. Terrybubble is one of these
huge bony creatures who was magically returned to life. He traveled
to Oz with Speedy, a boy from Philadelphia. Terrybubble grew very
fond of Speedy and proved to be a loyal, if rather large, companion.
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This extraordinary machine man was made by Smith
and Tinker's in the town of Evna, in the Land of Ev.
~ Evoldo, the King of Ev, bought Tik-Tok for a servant.
Sº Evoldo enjoyed beating his servants, but Tik-Tok af-
forded him no pleasure, for the beatings didn't hurt the
- machine man a bit. Selfish Evoldo then sold his family as
slaves to the Nome King, in exchange for a long life. Later he regretted
this decision and tried to buy his family back, but the Nome King
refused to return them. In despair, Evoldo locked Tik-Tok inside a
stone cavern and threw the key into the Nonestic Ocean. He regretted
this action, too, jumped in after the key, and was drowned, thus de-
stroying the long life the Nome King had granted him. Dorothy rescued
Tik-Tok from the cavern, and he accompanied her to the land of Oz,
where he has made his home ever since. In many ways, Tik-Tok, with
-
-
his clock-work mechanism of pure magic, is much like the electronic
robots we read about today. After all, science is nothing more than
pure magic, coming true very slowly. Ozma of Oz, p. 52. (B)
Til Loon
As Royal Mendress of the Village of Loon-
ville in the Winkie Country, Til Loon gathers up the
limp rubber skin when one of the balloon people of
that queer town bursts. She mends the puncture and the
Loon man or woman can be blown up to proper Loonville
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Tin Woodman
A long time ago, Nick Chopper was an ordinary, flesh-
and-blood woodman; that is, he dwelt in the forest and chopped down
trees for a living. He fell in love with Nimmie Aimee, a young woman
who lived with an old witch in the forest. This witch was afraid the
hard-working girl would marry and leave her, so she enchanted the
woodman's axe. Nick Chopper chopped off an arm. A friendly tin-
smith made him a new arm. Then the enchanted axe chopped off his
foot, and the tinsmith made him a tin leg. In a short time, he was
made entirely of tin, and he was, truly, the Tin Woodman. But the
wicked witch had won, for the Tin Woodman had no heart with which
to be kind and loving toward Nimmie Aimee. One day he was caught
in a rainstorm in the forest and rusted, so that he was no longer able
to move. It was thus that Dorothy and the Scarecrow found him. Doro-
thy oiled his joints, enabling Nick to move about and to talk again.
The rest of the Tin Woodman's history is full of adventures, narrow
escapes, and happy conclusions. Today he is nickel-plated and lives
in a handsome tin palace, where he rules as Emperor of the Winkie
Country. The Wizard of Oz, p. 37. (B)
Tiny &
Tiny is one of the biggest bandits in Realbad's band of
forest marauders. In fact, the only thing tiny about Tiny is his in-X.
telligence. He has a big appetite, a big ambition, and a big body—
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Tititi-Hoochoo
Known as the Great Jinjin, Tititi-Hoochoo rules a *. º,
strange fairyland on the other side of the world from Oz. The Great º
Jinjin is that country's only private citizen, all his subjects being kings
and queens, each wielding great natural powers over mankind. Tititi-/
Hoochoo is greatly feared and respected for his many awesome powers.' "
His justice is never tempered with mercy. It was he who banished
Ruggedo, the Nome King, to the upper earth, to become a homeless
wanderer. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 122. (B)
Toddlady
This faithful scribe and Prime Moneyster in the Court
of King Cheeriobed of the Azure Islands is a much hap-
pier man than he used to be. In the old, bad days, he
inscribed in his chronicle many unhappy events brought
on by the monster Quiberon. But now that Quiberon is
gone, Toddledy's official scribbling is only of gayety and
happiness. In fact, his pen fairly dances over the paper
now. The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 22. (T)
º % (º
º
sº -
… . . Tollydiggle
2-1. S The official jailer of the Emerald City is a plump,
pleasant, little woman who feeds her prisoners apple dumplings and
the most delicious omelettes. That is, she would feed these delicacies
to her prisoners except for the fact that, in all her years of service, she
has had only one—Ojo, who, when he first came to the Emerald City,
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Toto
Almost everyone who has ever heard of Oz has heard
of Toto, Dorothy's little black curly-haired dog, who was her first
companion on her first visit to Oz. When Dorothy came to live per-
manently in Oz, Toto came with her. Since all the Oz animals talk, it
finally occurred to Dorothy that it was strange Toto, too, did not learn
to speak to her. When Dorothy asked Toto to explain this, the little
dog told her—in words—that he and Dorothy understood each other
so well there was no need for him to talk. The Wizard of Oz, p. 3. (B)
–"
ºs ºº
º ºf Tottenhot;
* - º º º
ºf 2 A º º These strange people live in little underground houses
in the Quadling Country. They wear animal skins for
* clothing and large rings in their ears, for ornaments.
º º While a mischievous lot, the Tottenhots are a harmless
ſº people who sleep all day and frolic all night in the moon-
\ light. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, p. 243. (B)
Town Crier
In the old days, to “cry the news" was to call it out,
- - - loudly, so that all could hear it in the town. Of course,
º Nº to cry also means “to weep”. The Town Crier of Wonder
City does both: he cries the news and weeps copious
tears, at one and the same time. The Wonder City of Oz,
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) º Here is a different kind of Town Crier. The people of
ºx the City of Kimbaloo, in the Gillikin Country, are so happy that they
never cry. Still, they feel that it isn't right to be happy all of the time,
so they hire a man who does all their crying for them. The Lost King
Tozzyſog
For two long years, faithful Tozzyfog, of Sun Top Moun-
tain, located in the Gillikin Country, searched for his beloved niece,
Peg Amy, not knowing in all this time into what form the princess had
been transformed by the wicked magician, J. Glegg. Kabumpo in Oz,
p. 281. (T)
Trot
Trot and Cap'n Bill lived with Trot's mother in a cottage
near the ocean in California. Little Trot Griffiths never
grew lonely in the company of the grizzled old sailor,
who could spin wonderful yarns of his days on the sea
when he was younger and needed no wooden leg. But none
of the old man's tales was as wonderful as the adventures
they had in Oz. The Scarecrow of Oz, p. 13. (B)
Ting Tsing
This is the wife of Chang Wang Woe, who, a long time
ago, was Emperor of the Silver Island, far below the surface of the
Munchkin Country. The King of the Golden Islands, who had been
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magician turned Chang into a crocus. The faithful Tsing Tsing placed
that crocus in a bowl. Three days later, the magic crocus had grown
into a giant beampole, its top appearing in a Munchkin farmer's corn-
field. According to the magic spell that had been cast, the spirit of
Chang Wang Woe would enter the first thing that touched the bean-
pole. And the first thing that touched the beanpole was—the Scare-
crow. The Royal Book of Oz, p. 101. (T)
Tubeſkinſ
- In the Nome Country, there is a great hollow tube that
passes right through the center of the earth. On the other side of the
earth, Tubekins is the guardian of that hollow tube. As it is against
the law to use the tube for traveling, anyone who zooms out of the
tube has to answer to Tubekins, who is also known as the “Peculiar
Person'. Tik-Tok of Oz, p. 112. (B)
º Tuzzle
When Tuzzle, Grand Vizier of Samandra, saw his
sultan turn a whole kingdom of people into fish, he
should have resigned and looked for another job. But
he remained in the Sultan's service, who sent him to
the Emerald City to bring back the Comfortable Camel.
But poor Tuzzle's journey was to no avail. The Yellow
Knight of Oz, p. 63. (T)
Twiſle
- Although he didn't approve of Conjo's magicianship,
Twiffle, the little doll-clown, was most loyal to his master. After Conjo
drank of the waters of the Fountain of Oblivion, Twiffle went with him
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do his best to see that Conjo used his magic for nothing but good
results in the future—with no more stealing of boys and girls from
America. The Shaggy Man of Oz, p. 18. (S)
* * Twink
| ; With her twin brother Tom, Twink Jones found her way
S! from Buffalo, New York, to the Emerald City of Oz. Between those
\ two cities occurred some of the most exciting and fascinating adven-
tures you ever read about. The Shaggy Man of Oz, p. 13. (S)
Twobyour
Although Twobyfour was only an unimportant servant
to Skamperoo, King of Scampavia, he was responsible, in a way, for
the fall of the Emerald City. For it was he who called to the attention
of Skamperoo the magic emeralds that came from the Emerald City.
Just the sight of those emeralds was enough to make Skamperoo's
f mouth water. Poor Twobyfour got no reward at all. The Wishing
tº Horse of Oz, p. 24. (T)
» ( -
-
º
Twoffle
- This small doll-clown lives in the nursery of Twink and
Tom Jones in Buffalo, New York. It was Twoffle's cousin, Twiffle, who
was partly responsible for the Jones twins' trip to Oz. Now that they are
back in Buffalo, Twink and Tom sometimes look long and strangely at
Twoffle. Many times, they have resolved to stay up all night and sur-
prise their old friend Twoffle when he makes one of his visits to his
cousin in their nursery. But they have never yet been able to stay
awake that long. The Shaggy Man of Oz, p. 14. (S)





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3 wº
\ - W ! º
is for UNITED States. Oz is our contribution to
fairyland. Translated into many
languages for enjoyment the world over, Oz has come to be from
America what Alice is from England,
Grimm's Fairy Tales are from Germany, and the tales of
Hans Christian Andersen are from Denmark
An " "O.Z. FAN'" FR1 end whose nam. E BEG ins witH u""
One whose life has been enriched by the great story-
tellers of all lands, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land
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Ugly One
- º
º The younger brother of the Shaggy Man was captured
by the Nome King and given an ugly face in place of his naturally
pleasant one. Ruggedo locked the unfortunate fellow up in a forest
in which the trees were made of precious metals and the ground was
strewn with valuable jewels. The Shaggy Man heard his brother's
plight and set out to rescue him. After a whole “bookful” of adventures
the two were reunited. Polychrome, the lovely daughter of the rain-
bow, broke the Nome King's spell of ugliness by kissing the Ugly One.
Shaggy's brother now lives happily in Oz, the guest of Ozma. Tik-Tok
of Oz, p. 227. (B) -
Ugu º
When he lived in the City of Herku, Winkie Country, ſº
Ugu was a poor shoemaker, very much discontented with his lot. One N \
day, he discovered in his attic a treasure store of magical instruments \
and books on magic. He stopped making shoes and began the study tº \
of magic, with the hope of becoming the greatest magician in Oz,
thereby ruling the country. After he became skilled in magical powers,
he stole Ozma and enchanted her. On the same night, he also stole all
of the important magic in the Land of Oz. And that's how matters
stood when Dorothy and her friends set out to search for Ozma in The
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Umb
Mount Illuso is a twin mountain in Phantastico, which
country borders the Nome Country. The King of the Magical Mimics,
who dwell on Mount Illuso, was once goaded by his wife, the evil
Queen Ra, into leading his Mimics to Oz, which he very nearly suc-
ceeded in conquering. These Mimics are unusual creatures who rest-
lessly change their shapes every few minutes, and they have the
power of taking the form of any human being or animal they choose.
Even the person mimicked can't tell the difference between himself
and his imitator! You can read all about what they did to Dorothy, the
Wizard, and other Oz folk in The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 41. (S)
Umph
Like all Nomes, Umph had to try his
hand at making trouble, proving to be good at being bad,
Umtillio
s Minstrel in the court of Cheeriobed, King of the lovely
and serene Ozure Islands, in the blue Munchkin Country, Umtillio
knew a thousand songs, which he sang to please his cheery ruler and
the happy people of the islands, playing on his harp to accompany
\º himself. Once upon a time, these islands had been as peaceful as they
appeared to be, but the coming of the monster Quiberon ended this
serene and happy existence. How Quiberon's noisy tyranny was ended
is told in The Giant Horse of Oz, p. 22. (T)




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is for VARIETY, spice of the hectic life lived in Oz. -
In wandering through the great lands themselves,
we are first treated to variety in color. In the adventure
we encounter, variety is endless.
And in its formidable cast of characters, the variety in Oz leads us
totally out of all the zoos with which we are familiar
An “oz FAn” FR I End whose NAME BEGINs WITH ''V' "
One on whom the great variety to be found in life is not
wasted, and who is here registered as a Citizen of the Land of Oz.

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Vaga
When the renegade Vaga captured Prince Tatters of
Ragbad, and Grampa, the faithful old soldier, he had to take Bill, the
cast iron weathercock from Illinois. Vaga would have enjoyed pick-
ing up Bill and casting him back to Illinois on the first “ill wind" that
passed by. Grampa of Oz, p. 51. (T)
Vanetta
A long time ago, Queen Vanetta of the Blanks was not
blank, and neither were her people. They were just
ordinary people, ruled by a woman more than ordinarily
plain to look at. One day, Vanetta discovered a magic
forest pool that rendered invisible those who bathed in
º its waters. Believing that, if she could not be seen, she
would then be thought as beautiful as any maiden,
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Vinegar and Muſtard
Vinegar has a sour disposition, and Mustard, a hot tem-
per. That's why these two royal guards of the over-spiced red Kingdom
of Rash, in Ev, are so named. The Hungry Tiger of Oz, p. 77. (T)
Vig
In a walled city in the Winkie Country live Vig and his
subjects. These people of Herku City are served by a race of giants.
This is very strange, because Herkus are small and lean, and apparently
very frail. Actually, they are the strongest people in the world, from
whom their giant servants quail in fear. The Herkus get their strength
from Zosozo, a magic liquid invented by Vig. Naturally, the Herkus
see to it that not a drop of this strength-giving potion ever passes a
giant's lips. But Vig did lend a bottle of it to the Wizard of Oz once,
with surprising results. The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 168. (B)
Voice That Loſt Hiſ Man
Once, a singer caught a cold and lost his voice. The
Voice was most unhappy and wandered everywhere searching for its
master. It spent one evening with Number Nine's family, singing a
lullaby to the fourteen children. Everyone concerned was very happy
when the Voice finally found his Man and they could sing together
once more. The Wonder City of Oz, p. 58. (N)

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is for WonderFUL–the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
It was on that great day many years ago, when the Wizard
took his first step out of his balloon onto Oz, that the history
of Oz really began. Starting out as a humbug, he truly
became a Wonderful Wizard. With his well known
Black Bag of Magic Tools, the little
Wizard is loved by everyone who has ever heard of Oz
An ‘‘Oz Fan' " Fri En D whose name BEG ins witH "w" "
One whose excitement at “wizardry” extends to the wiz-
ardry of present day scientists, and who is here registered as a Citizen
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the entrance to Bear Center, Winkie Country. All the
bears who live in that city are stuffed with a fine quality
of curled hair and live in comfortable hollow trees. The
only creature Corporal Waddle ever succeeded in scar-
ing was a weasel; he shot at it and away it ran. Perhaps
the reason for this is that Waddle's sole weapon is a pop
gun. The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 198. (B)
Waddy tºº
The Wizard of Umbrella Island, which is completely
surrounded by air except when it is raining, once came up with a stroke
of magic so ingenious it amazed even the Wizard of Oz. Waddy is un-
doubtedly a wizard just wadded with wonderful magic. Speedy in Oz,
p. 20. (T) Ǻ
Wag ºf ºº,
This rabbit once lived in the green meadowland just
outside the Emerald City. Wag wasn't really a bad bunny, but he got
all mixed up with the Nome King, who managed to persuade the
baffled bunny to assist in one of the various schemes to conquer Oz.
In the course of their plotting, Wag's size increased to ten times that
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of any normal rabbit. He now lives happily on Sun Top Mountain,
where he eats five pounds of carrots a day. Kabumpo in Oz, p. 79. (T)
Wagarag
The chief steward to Mogodore, Baron of Baffleburg,
Quadling Country, warned his master not to open the “Forbidden
Flagon' predicting it's opening would cause great trouble for the Baf-
fleburgundians. At the worst possible moment for Mogodore, the flask
was opened, and the Baffleburgundians just vanished, but without
disappearing. It happened in Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, p. 112. (T)
Wam
The only important magic Wam the wizard ever worked
was to enchant three strands of emeralds. He intended
them as a gift to Lorna, the wood nymph, from the King
of the Green Mountains. But a squirrel stole the emer-
alds, thinking them green nuts. When he found they
were not good to eat, the squirrel discarded the emeralds.
Matiah, a Skamperanian peddler, found them—and then
the trouble began! The Wishing Horse of Oz, p. 283. (T)
Y Wantowin
s] This is really Omby Amby, the soldier with the green
whiskers. Perhaps the Oz historian who wrote this book wanted to
see if you remembered Omby Amby and so invented a new name for
him. Well, you did remember, and now Wantowin is again called
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White Rabbit
This wise little bunny met Button Bright in a great
peach orchard, in the Winkie Country, and warned him that he would
have to “answer to Ugu” if he ate a certain peach. That was the first
time Button and his friends heard of Ugu, and the knowledge led
them straight to The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 158. (B)
Wicked Witch of the Eaſt
When Dorothy's Kansas home was whisked into the air
by a cyclone and settled in Oz, it also settled the fate
of the Wicked Witch of the East. She was so bad that
Q no one was sorry to see her destroyed. All that was left
*
of her were the two things which were good—her two
shoes, which Dorothy wore in her first journey through
Oz. The Wizard of Oz, p. 10. (B)
Wicked Witch of the Weſt
& Dorothy melted this wicked witch with a bucket of
water. The old woman was so dried up and filled with black magic
that good clean water melted her down to nothing. By doing this, Doro-
thy freed herself and the Winkies. The Wizard of Oz, p. 110. (B)
Wilby
A woodchopper and a wise man, Wilby refused to be-
come frightened by the Cowardly Lion, and he taught the beast that
good will is just as important as courage. The Cowardly Lion learned
that sage and friendly words are better, sometimes, than a square meal.
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Wilſon
A Winkie farmer named Wiljon was one of the first
people to meet the Frogman when he came down the mountain from
the secluded Yip country. The Lost Princess of Oz, p. 59. (B)
º, V.
* Sº The Winks guard the passageway to Gapers Gulch,
in the Gillikin Country. (This is one place in which no one ever tried to
catch forty Winks!) The Silver Princess in Oz, p. 44. (T)
Wizard of Oz
- /...If Twº Once, a long time ago, in the great city of Omaha, there
lived a happily married politician. Naturally, part of his job as a poli-
tician was to kiss many babies. He grew so fond of this part of his work
that he decided it would be nice to have a baby of his own to kiss.
His good wife thoroughly agreed with him, and so a son, which the
politician and his wife considered to be the most wonderful baby in
the world, was born to them. So wonderful was this child that the
parents sought a remarkable name for him, selecting Oscar Zoroaster
Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmanuel Ambrose Diggs as the lad's
impressive cognomen. When the baby grew to be a boy and went to
school, he discovered that the initials of all but the first two of this
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In desperation, he decided to use only the initials of his first two
names, and called himself O. Z. Diggs. When he became a young man,
he learned how to do sleight-of-hand tricks and called himself a wiz-
ard. To attract people to the circus with which he traveled, he made
balloon ascensions, painting his initials (O.Z.) on the side of the balloon.
One day, his balloon was caught up by a strong wind and carried to a
strange land. When the wizard descended, he was greeted by the local
inhabitants as the Wizard of Oz and became their ruler. The rest of
his story is so chock full of adventures that the telling of them fills
many volumes. On the very spot on which his balloon descended,
which happened to be precisely where the four countries of Oz meet,
the Wizard ordered built the beautiful and now famous Emerald City.
The Wizard of Oz, p. 97. (B) -
Wizard of Wutz
This is a very minor wizard who once aspired to be the
ruler of Oz. Thanks to Handy Mandy and Himself, the elf, Wutz is
now one of the prickliest cactus plants anyone ever backed into. Handy
Mandy in Oz, p. 132. (T)
“I started life as a lowly bug in the fields of the Winkie
Country. It was a wretched existence, for I had to live
in continual fear of the great birds who ate helpless
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myself, I shivered in the cold and sweltered in the heat.
One happy day, I crawled, exhausted, into a little red
building, which I was to learn later was a school house;
there, I made my home between two of the warm hearth
bricks. I paid close attention to Professor Nowitall as he
taught the children, and I thus acquired a very complete
Deducation. One day, the professor discovered me crawl-
Q ing over the hearth. That was my moment of great
destiny, for he placed me in a machine which projected
me, in a magnified state, onto a screen. Of course, I
stepped from the screen as Professor H. M. Woggle-
bug, T.E. (The letters H.M. stand for Highly Magnified;
T. E., for Thoroughly Educated.) I am now Dean of
the Royal College of Oz and the most learned and im-
portant educator in the favored Land of Oz.”
The above was written for this book by Professor
Wogglebug, himself. We found it so well written that
we have made no changes, other than to take the bugs
out of the spelling. For a first reference to Professor
Wogglebug, see The Land of Oz, p. 142. (B)
Woodchopper
This friendly woodcutter once knew the Tin Woodman
when he was a flesh-and-blood person. Again, when Ojo started with
Unk Nunkie on his first adventure in Oz, it was this woodchopper who
gave him some very helpful information about the Land of Oz. The
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… Wooden Gardener
**-----
One of the small wooden folk fashioned by the fairy
Princess Ozana was a wooden gardener, who cared for the Story Blos-
som Garden in the Village of Pineville. Since then, he has been pro-
moted and is now in charge of conducting visitors through the garden.
The Magical Mimics in Oz, p. 134. (S) º
Woot the Wanderer lives in the Gillikin country, but he
is seldom at home. He once wandered into the Tin
Woodman's nickel-plated palace in the Winkie country
and started Nick Chopper on the most important quest
of his career. Although we haven't heard about Woot
for a long time, we presume he is still wandering. The
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is for Kiss. X has but one really important function
in the English language, and that is to line up
in rows at the close of letters. Kisses express all degrees of
endearment, in Oz; consequently, "X" is a
hard-working character indeed
An ‘‘Oz Fan" " Fri End whose NAME BEG-ins witH - X""
A rare mortal to be sure, whose name begins with “X,”
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*
he flexible man of Moocher Mountain, in the Munch-
kin Country, is a flexible person, to say the least. His
expanding and contracting legs carry him and his pas-
sengers up and down the mountain. Instead of being
an elevator operator, X-Pando is an operating elevator.
N Ojo in Oz, p. 260. (T)
N W. W. & A, -
A s !)
- ~
º - - º
* ~~~~~ *-C - -Ses -


is for You, for without you there could be no Land of
Oz. Your appreciation has made Oz live
in a very special way, but no less truly than anything else
that draws breath in our great and
mysterious world
An “oz FAN'" FR1 END whose NAME BEGINs witH “Y”
You who have signed your good name on yonder line
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is for oz—last instead of first—a rare and adventur-
ous letter. Zee, which is zed, which is izzard
(you'll note its presence in wizard), also makes a bold appearance
in such time-tested favorites as The Prisoner of Zenda,
The Mark of Zorro, and Prince Zalinski's Secret. In Rupert of
Hentzau and Tarzan of the Apes, its appearance
is somewhat more stealthy
An “oz FAN'" FRIEND whose NAME BEGINs witH “z'"
A rare and elusive bird is Z , whose name, signed
at the appointed place above, attests to registration as a Citizen of
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Zella
Nikobob, once a charcoal burner on the island of Regos, ſ
brought his daughter Zella a pair of shoes which he had found in a
trash can in the rear of the royal palace. Neither Zella nor Nikobob
knew that those shoes contained two of the magical pearls which were
Prince Inga's source of power. The happy conclusion found Zella living
on the island of Pingaree, where her father is now King Kitticut's prime
minister. Rinkitink in Oz, p. 143. (B)
Zeronſ
These flaky Zerons live on an exceedingly cold mountain
in the Nome Kingdom. They have the power to make it cold for any-
one who visits their mountain. It's a law there that anything above zero
must be lowered immediately. Lucky Bucky in Oz, p. 66. (N)
- The wife of Zithero, leader of a gypsy band, doesn't
have music even in her name, as her husband does. Zinaro spent most
of her time telling peoples fortunes and cooking up a hot, peppery
stew. It was she who enticed Ojo into the gypsy encampment. Ojo in
Oz, p. 45. (T)
Zithero
Here he is, obediently next to his wife—Zithero—leader
of the Gypsy band that stole Ojo away from his Unk Nunkie. Zithero
is not really a bad sort, but being a gypsy leader, he feels that he simply


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must live down to his reputation. Realbad the bandit
caught him up short. Ojo in Oz, p. 39. (T)
Queen Zixi of the fairyland of Ix appears to lº Out
sixteen years of age, but she has, in reality, lived for many thousands
of years, for she knows the secret of remaining forever young and
beautiful. She is the firm friend of King Bud and Princess Fluff, whose
Kingdom of Noland adjoins hers. The Road to Oz, p. 235. (B)
Zunda
And now a lowly inhabitant of Subterranea, a gloomy
city far below the surface of the Winkie Country, attains the promi-
nence of being our last hero. Happily, Zunda did do something re-
markable once—remarkable for a Subterranean, that is. He reflected a
glimmering of sunlight when he befriended Speedy, the small boy who
was trying to escape from the underground kingdom, as you will learn
in The Yellow Knight of Oz, p. 99. (T)


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STORY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE THIRTY-NINE OZ
BOOKS PUBLISHED FROM 1900 TO 1951
The Wizard of Oz
|Originally published as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
It is in this book that Oz is “discovered.” A little Kansas girl—
Dorothy Gale—is carried in her house to Oz when a cyclone whisks it through
the sky. As the house lands in the Munchkin Country (one of the four great
countries of Oz) it destroys a wicked witch and sends Dorothy off on her first
adventure in Oz. She finds the Scarecrow, meets the Tin Woodman and the
Cowardly Lion, melts a second wicked witch with a pail of water and finds her
way home. Since this book appeared a half-century ago, we have learned many
marvelous things about the Land of Oz. BAUM [L. FRANK) and DENSLow [W. W.]
1900. (The current edition is illustrated by Evelyn Copelman.)
The Land of Oz
(Originally published as The Marvelous Land of Oz)
This sequel to The Wizard of Oz deals entirely with the early
history of Oz. No one from the United States or any other part of the “great
outside world” appears in it. It takes its readers on a series of incredible adven-
tures with Tip, a small boy who runs away from old Mombi, the witch, taking
with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse. The Scarecrow is King
of the Emerald City until he, Tip, Jack, and the Tin Woodman are forced to
flee the royal palace when it is invaded by General Jinjur and her army of re-
belling girls. The Land of Oz ends with an amazing surprise, and from that
moment on Ozma is princess of all Oz. BAUM and NEILL [John R.] 1904.


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Ozma of Oz
Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happen-
ings as this one. 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 me-
chanical 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. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with excitement, magic and
adventure. BAUM and NEILL, 1907.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Of course, everyone always predicted it would happen! And in
this book it does—the Wizard comes back to Oz to stay. Best of all, he comes
with Dorothy, who is having adventure number three that leads her to Oz, this
time via a California earthquake. In this book we meet Dorothy's pink kitten,
Eureka, whose manners need adjusting badly, and two good friends who we
are sorry did not remain in Oz—Jim the cabhorse, and Zeb, Dorothy's young
cousin, who works on a ranch as a hired boy. BAUM and NEILL, 1908.
The Road to Oz
We like to think of this volume as “The Party Book of Oz.”
Almost everyone loves a party, and when Ozma has a birthday party with
notables from every part of fairyland attending—well! It is just like attending
Ozma's party in person. You meet the famous of Oz, and lots of others, such as
Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough, Chick the Cherub, the Queen of Merryland, Para
Bruin the rubber bear and—best of all–Santa Claus himself! Of course there
are lots of adventures on that famous road to Oz before the party, during which
Dorothy, on her way to Oz for the fourth time, meets such heart-warming char-
acters as the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and lovely Polychrome, daughter of
the rainbow. BAUM and NEILL, 1909.
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their way to the Nome Kingdom, one fascinating adventure follows another.
They meet Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo and her army, and lovely Poly-
chrome, who had lost her rainbow again; they rescue Tik-Tok from a well; and
are dropped through a Hollow Tube to the other side of the world where they
meet Quox, the dragon. You'll find it one of the most exciting of all the Oz books.
BAUM and NEILL, 1914.
The Sararoy of Oz
This is the Oz book which L. Frank Baum considered his best
It starts quietly enough with Trot and Cap'n Bill rowing along a shore of the
Pacific Ocean to visit one of the many caves near their home on the California
coast. Suddenly, a mighty whirlpool engulfs them. The old sailorman and the
little girl are miraculously saved and regain consciousness to find themselves in
a sea cavern. (To this day, Trot asserts she felt mermaid arms about her during
those terrible moments under water.) From here on, one perilous adventure
crowds in upon another. In Jinxland they meet the Scarecrow who takes charge
of things once Cap'n Bill is transformed into a tiny grasshopper with a wooden
leg. An exciting royal reception greets the adventurers upon their return to the
Emerald City. BAUM and NEILL, 1915.
Rinkitink in Oz
Prince Inga of Pingaree is the boy hero of this fine story of
peril-filled adventure in the islands of the Nonestic Ocean. King Rinkitink pro-
vides comic relief, and by the time you reach the final page you will love this
fat, jolly little king. Bilbil the goat, with his surly disposition, provides a fine
contrast to Rinkitink's merriment and Prince Inga's bravery and courage in the
face of danger. Some may say that the three magic pearls are the real heroes
of this story, but the pearls would have been of little use to King Kitticut and
Queen Garee if Prince Inga hadn't used them wisely and courageously. BAUM
and NEILL, 1916.
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The Loſt Princeſ of Oz
Talk about Button-Bright getting lost—Ozma is almost as bad!
This is actually the second time Ozma has been lost. As you know, once she was
“lost” for many years. But in this book she is lost for only a short time. As soon
as it is discovered that the ruler of Oz is lost—and with her all the important
magical instruments in Oz—search parties, one for each of the four countries
of Oz, set out to find her. We follow the adventures of the party headed by
Dorothy and the Wizard, who explore unknown parts of the Winkie Country in
search of Ozma. How Ozma is found, and where she has been, will surprise you.
Frogman, a new character, is introduced in this book. BAUM and NEILL, 1917.
The Tin Woodman of Oz
Woot the Wanderer causes this chapter of Oz history to transpire.
When Woot wanders into the splendid tin castle of Nick Chopper, the Tin
Woodman and Emperor of the Winkies, he meets the Scarecrow, who is visiting
his old friend. The Tin Woodman tells Woot the story of how he had once been
a flesh-and-blood woodman in love with a maiden named Nimmie Aimee. Woot
suggests that since the Tin Woodman now has a kind and loving heart, it is his
duty to find Nimmie Aimee and make her Empress of the Winkies. The Scare-
crow agrees, so the three set off to search for the girl. No less surprising than the
adventures encountered on the journey is Nimmie Aimee's reception of her
former suitor. BAUM and NEILL, 1918.
The Magic of Oz
Old Ruggedo, the former Nome King, comes to Oz for the
second time, and makes more trouble than he did on his first visit. Ruggedo
never gives up the idea of conquering Oz, and this time he has the advantage
of being in the country without Ozma's knowledge. Also, he has the magic and
somewhat grudging help of Kiki Aru, the Munchkin boy who is illegally prac-
ticing the art. If you like magic, then this is a book for you. There's magic on
every page, and everyone in the story eventually is transformed into something
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else, or bewitched in one way or another. Even the wild animals in the great
Forest of Gugu do not escape. BAUM and NEILL, 1919.
Glinda of Oz
This is the last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. It is one of
the best in the series, with Dorothy, Ozma, and Glinda in an adventure that
takes them to an amazing crystal-domed city on an enchanted island. This island
is situated in a lake in the Gillikin Country. Ozma and Glinda are confronted
by powerful magic and determined enemies. For a time Dorothy and Ozma
are prisoners in the crystal-domed city which is able to submerge below the
surface of the lake. Few of the Oz books equal this one in suspense and mys-
tery, but it has less humor than some of the other books, perhaps because Mr.
Baum was ill while writing it. BAUM and NEILL, 1920.
The Royal Book of Oz
This is the first Oz book written by Ruth Plumly Thompson,
who was but twenty years old when she wrote it. Professor Wogglebug lets fall
the weighty observation that the Scarecrow has no background—no family tree.
So the Scarecrow indignantly goes in search of his family tree to the Munchkin
corn field, where he had been placed on a pole long ago to frighten away crows.
The pole turns out to be a magic bean pole, and the Scarecrow falls down it, far
below the surface of Oz, down to the Silver Islands. Here, the Scarecrow dis-
covers that he is supposed to be the re-created Emperor Chang Wang Woe of
the Silver Islands. Among the new characters introduced are: Sir Hokus of
Pokes, Comfortable Camel, and Doubtful Dromedary. Thompson [RUTH PLUMLY]
and NEILL, 1921.
Kabumpo in Oz
This is the first Oz book with an animal in its title role. Kabumpo,
however, is much more than an animal—he is a genuine personality. Kabumpo
the elegant elephant is the wisest and oldest living creature in Pumperdink.
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The Loſt King of Oz
What happened to Pastoria, King of Oz in the old days, long
before the Wizard came to Oz and erected the Emerald City? That question
has been asked many times. Long an Oz mystery, this book settles the matter
at last. You won't be surprised to learn that Mombi, the witch, is involved. Also
entangled in Pastoria's history are Snip the lovable little button boy, Pajuka the
goose who is also a Prime Minister, and Humpy, a Hollywood dummy. Once
freed of Mombi's enchantment, Pastoria proves to be a delightful old man who
has not the slightest desire to be king of anything. He is perfectly happy with
his little tailor shop and his assistant, Snip the button boy. THOMPsoN and
NEILL, 1925.
The Hungry Tiger of Oz
Everyone knows that the Hungry Tiger of Oz is the largest,
the most powerful, and the most magnificent tiger in existence. Realizing this,
can you imagine a “little” girl so huge in size that she fondles the Hungry Tiger
as though he were a kitten, dressing him in doll clothes like a baby? That's what
happens to the Hungry Tiger in this book. Maybe it's punishment for his pre-
tended desire to eat a fat little baby. Reddy, the young Prince of Rash, wins back
his kingdom, Ozma is taken sky riding by a gigantic airman named Atmos Fere,
and the Nome King concocts more mischief. You'll like Carter Green the vegetable
man, who makes his first appearance here. THOMPson and NEILL, 1926.
The Gnome King of Oz
This is Peter's first visit to Oz—Peter being a small boy from
Philadelphia—and he manages to make it an exciting one. Peter accompanies
the Nome” King on another of that former monarch's periodic attempts to con-
quer Oz. While this is happening, the Quilties of Patch are trying hard to make
the Patchwork Girl their queen. Scraps objects violently, for the cross-patch
life of the Queen of the Quilties doesn't appeal to jolly Scraps. Peter and Scraps
meet for a breathless series of adventures. Peter arrives in the Emerald City
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just in time to save the city from the Nome King. Ozma offers to make him a
prince of Oz. Peter, however, prefers his dream of Peter on the pitcher's mound
back home in Philadelphia, to a throne in the Emerald City. THOMPson and
NEILL, 1927.
*Also spelled Gnome in Oz books.
The Giant Horſe of Oz
This is the third horse in all the Land of Oz. The first is the
wooden Saw-Horse, who looks only vaguely like a real horse, but is nonetheless
Ozma's favorite steed. The second is Jim, an old cab horse now retired to pas-
ture on a California ranch. Jim doesn't stay long in Oz—magic makes him nervous.
High Boy, the giant horse of Oz, is one of the most remarkable creatures you
will ever meet. He has expanding and contracting legs, so that he can adjust
them to mountains or plains and speed along with equal ease. Highboy races
through some remarkable adventures in this book with Prince Philador, Benny
the “public benefactor” and many other fascinating Oz folk. THOMPson and
NEILL, 1928.
Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz
J ack Pumpkinhead, who claims no less a personage than Ozma
as his royal “parent”, makes his own book here, and it's one that should win
Jack many thousands of new friends. We meet another old friend in this story:
Peter, the little Philadelphia boy, is back in Oz again, and he and Jack have
some wonderful times together. They meet the Iffin, who is as charming a crea-
ture as you ever saw. They also meet mad Mogodore the robber baron, who
actually captured Ozma and believed he was on his way to becoming King of
Oz. He was on his way all right—and you'll see how. THOMPson and NEILL, 1929.
The Yellow Knight of Oz
Sir Hokus, once of Merrie England but more recently of Pokes
City, Oz, is always ready for a new exploit. He relishes nothing more than the
slaying of a herd of dragons or the rescuing of a bevy of beautiful princesses,
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The Yellow Knight, Sir Hokus, has enough adventures to satisfy the most am-
bitious of knights. He not only rescues a fair princess, but he frees two whole
kingdoms of hundreds of people, who had been transformed into fish and trees.
As you've probably guessed, he gets help from Comfortable Camel, Speedy, and
lots of other friends. THOMPsoN and NEILL, 1930.
Pirateſ in Oz
Here comes Peter, another lone voyager from the United States,
to adventure all over the Nonestic Ocean with Captain Salt and his pirate crew,
and finally to sail to the Land of Oz and the Emerald City. Captain Salt and his
pirates are not very much like the pirates you've read about in Treasure Island.
They are so busy having magical adventures and exploring strange lands that
they just can't spare the time to rob and plunder. Different, too, is their chef.
He sails with them six months of the year because he likes to cook and travel,
and stays home the other six months in his castle where he is none other than
King Ato. And here's where you'll meet Roger the Read Bird. Thompson and
NEILL, 1931.
The Purple Prince of Oz
This story is something like the old fairy tales in which the
prince has to accept challenges, conquer, and perform feats of daring before he
can become king or win the beautiful princess. Prince Randy of Regalia finds
himself in just such a situation, and he courageously sets out to perform all the
feats required of him. He wins the friendship of Kabumpo the elegant elephant,
and after enough encounters to fill ten Oz books, he proves himself every inch
a king. You'll like Randywell Handywell Brandenburg Bumpadoo, the Prince
of the Purple Mountain. Thompson and NEILL, 1932.
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Ojo in Oz
One day as Ojo sits quietly in the cottage in which he and his
Unk Nunkie live, along comes a band of gypsies and lures him into one of their
rattle-trap wagons. In no time at all, Ojo is their captive and the wagon carries
him away from home. But why do the gypsies want Ojo? How is he, a small
boy, in any way valuable to them? The surprise answer is worth waiting for.
Ojo and his friend Snufferbux, a dancing bear and also a captive, are rescued
from the gypsies by Realbad the forest bandit. Ojo and Realbad become very
fond of each other and adventure through the Munchkin Country, visiting Uni-
corners, Crystal City, and other strange places. THOMPsoN and NEILL, 1933.
Speedy in Oz
Remember Speedy, the little boy who arrived in Oz by space
rocket from Long Island in The Yellow Knight of Oz? Well, here he is in his own
book with a most delightful companion. Terrybubble is an honest-to-goodness
live dinosaur, with all the lovable characteristics of a faithful dog. Speedy and
Terry visit the fascinating islands—Umbrella and Roaraway—and are instrumental
in freeing Umbrella Island of the tyranny of Loxo the terrible giant. Eventually
they arrive in Emerald City. There Speedy meets many old friends and Ozma
uses her magic to send him happily home again to his beloved Uncle Billy.
THOMPsoN and NEILL, 1934.
The Wiſhing Horſe of Oz
Most Oz fans are mystery fans, too, so here is an Oz mystery
that is all tangled up in three strands of emeralds and the strange magic that
lies in the depths of their stones. Originally intended for a tree maiden, they
instead fall into evil hands. The story starts in Skampavia, a tiny country outside
Oz, where Skamperoo, the ambitious and discontented king, decides to become
king of all Oz. He succeeds, for a time. His companion is Chalk, the magnificent
white wishing horse, and it is the good horse sense of Chalk that brings about
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and starts off to visit his old friend Jinnicky, Red Jinn of the Land of Ev. Long
before they arrive at Jinnicky's castle, Randy and Kabumpo are breathless with
all that can happen only in Oz. They pass through an amazing chasm called
Gapers' Gulch, meet Planetty, lovely Princess from Anuther Planet and Thun
the Thundercolt, her amazing steed. (They like the space maiden and her other-
world horse so well that they take them along with them.) But this is just the
beginning of a story that is truly “out of this world.” THOMPson and NEILL, 1938.
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz
Of course you have heard of the stratosphere—who hasn't, nowa-
days, when talk of space travel seems just a breath of air away from the actuality.
In this tale the Wizard of Oz invents ozoplanes, wonderful magical craft that
zoom up into the stratosphere. As you may suspect, the stratosphere over Oz
is different from any other. Here the stratosphere boasts a country called Strato-
vania, ruled by King Strut. This high-minded monarch takes a fancy to Jellia
Jamb, new arrival by ozoplane, and decides to make her his Starina. Simul-
taneously, the occupants of another ozoplane are adventuring on Red Top
Mountain, where Bustabo has stolen the throne from Azarine. THOMPsoN and
NEILL, 1939.
The Wonder City of Oz
J enny Jump is a girl from New Jersey who becomes involved
with an Irish fairy, a leprechaun, who unwisely gives Jenny just enough magic
to make her unreasonable. Whenever Jenny becomes angry, which is often, she
jumps. Finally, she becomes very angry and jumps clear to Oz. Actually, Jenny
is very lucky for she finds a magic “turn-style.” Those who pass through the turn-
style come out in newly-styled clothing. Jenny gets the help of a small boy, Number
Nine, to run a style shop, but none of this is enough for Jenny. She wants to rule
all Oz. Of course something has to happen and it does. And her leprechaun
is persuaded to confine his green magic to New Jersey where the natives regard
it with no more wonder than they do their mosquitoes. NEILL, 1940.
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The Salamagons of Oz º
After the success of his ozoplanes, the Wizard of Oz decides
to invent something for both land and air travel. The result is scalawagons. Every-
thing is running smoothly when Tik-Tok, superintendent of the Scalawagons
Factory, runs down. Along comes the Bell-snickle, a mystery even to himself,
and takes advantage of Tik-Tok's helpless condition by loading the scalawagons
with flabber-gas. The Wizard hasn't counted on this and nearly loses all his
scalawagons. It takes a whole book—filled with the fascinating adventures of Jenny
Jump, the Nota Bells, a rubber ghost, and a Mifkit—to tell the story of the rescue
of the scalawagons. NEILL, 1941.
Lucky Bucky in Oz
Lucky Bucky, a small boy from the United States, is aboard
a tiny tug boat in New York Harbor not far from the Statue of Liberty, when
the boiler of the tug boat blows up. Lucky is blown sky-high and into a whole
“bookful” of of wonderful adventures. First of all, he meets Davy Jones, a wooden
whale, who gladly accepts Lucky as a passenger. The inside of Davy is furnished
as elaborately and comfortably as an ocean liner. Lucky and Davy go plunging all
the way to the Emerald City, meeting many strange people on this water-level
route to the Land of Oz. This is the first time we ever heard of a whale in a
river, but maybe that's what makes it a whale of a tale. NEILL, 1942.
The Magical Mimic; in Oz
For thirty years, from 1913 through 1942, there had been a new
Oz book each year. But in 1943 John R. Neill, life-long illustrator and author
of the last three Oz books, died. America was at war, and paper was difficult
to obtain even in limited quantities. For four years no new Oz book was pub-
lished. In 1947 The Magical Mimics in Oz appeared, the work of a new author
and a new illustrator. Here is Oz once again, and in the best Baum tradition.
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The sinister, colorful Mimics, winging from out of the depths of Mount Illuso
to capture Dorothy and the Wizard, the excitement in the Emerald City while
Dorothy and the Wizard are captives of the Mimics, the discovery of Princess
Ozana and her beautiful Story Blossom Garden—all go to make this one of the
popular Oz books. SNow [JACK) and KRAMER [FRANK] 1947.
The Shaggy Man of Oz
Ever since he met Dorothy on the road to Oz many years ago,
the Shaggy Man has been one of the best loved of Oz characters. This book is
Shaggy's story: how his famous Love Magnet falls from the gates of the Emerald
City, and how Ozma explains to Shaggy that the valuable talisman can be re-
paired by only one person—the magician who made it. On his way to see this
magician, Conjo, who lives on an island in the Nonestic Ocean, Shaggy meets
Twink and Tom, twins from Buffalo whom Conjo had transported to his island.
Adventure follows adventure, first in Conjo's Castle, then in the Valley of Ro-
mance, later in the caverns of the Fairy Beaver King, and finally even under the
Deadly Desert. (There is a rumour afloat that Conjo again has the idea that he
should be the new Wizard of Oz.) S.Now and KRAMER, 1949.
The Hidden Valley of Oz
This is the story of Jam, a small boy from Ohio, who journeys
to Oz by means of a “collapsible kite.” Jam lands in a jam indeed when his kite
lets him down in Hidden Valley. There he becomes the prisoner of Terp the
Terrible. The cruel giant has enslaved all the inhabitants of this beautiful Gil-
likin valley. Aided by his friend Percy the white rat, Jam escapes, but only to
return after many adventures, and reduce Terp to normal size, thus freeing the
grateful people of Hidden Valley. Ozma sends Jam home to Ohio, while Percy,
now human being size, prefers to stay that way'in Oz. New characters whom Jam
meets on his travels are the Rhyming Dictionary and the Leopard with the
Changing Spots. CoscRove [RACHEL R.] and “DIRK” [DIRK GRINGHUIs] 1951.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE AUTHORS
AND ILLUSTRATORS
OF THE THIRTY-NINE OZ BOOKS
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
ON MAY 15, 1856, LYMAN FRANK BAUM was born in Chittenango,
a small town in Madison County, eight miles northeast of Syracuse, New York.
Originally, the family bore the name of Van Baum and came from the Nether-
lands to America before the Revolutionary War.
When Frank was five years old his father, Benjamin Ward Baum, estab-
lished the family home, called Roselawn, just outside Mattydale, a few miles
north of Syracuse. Baum's father had made his fortune by developing Penn-
sylvania's first oil wells. (At one time, he had a young man on his payroll named
John D. Rockefeller.)
Roselawn was the boyhood home that Baum knew and loved so well. He
writes of it, calling it by name, in Dot and Tot in Merryland. Baum's writing
ability manifested itself early. Between his twelfth and fifteenth years he wrote,
edited, and published the Roselawn Home Journal, a newspaper which was
widely circulated throughout Syracuse and which carried advertising by local
merchants. It was printed on a “toy” press bought by Baum's father in New
York; actually, this press was the equal of many used on country weekly news-
papers.
Except for a rather unhappy season at Peekskill Military Academy, Baum
was privately tutored, and through his love for books he was to a large extent
self-educated.
His seventeenth year found Frank Baum an eager cub reporter on a New
York newspaper, the old World. From this time on, his career varied to an almost
bewildering degree. At the age of nineteen he opened a printing office in Brad.
ford, Pennsylvania, establishing a paper which is ancestor to the present Bradford


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definite need and was immediately successful. Baum proved to be an energetic
editor, overflowing with ideas and suggestions. The Baum family had achieved
security, if not affluence.
The most important thing that had happened to Baum on the World was
his meeting with W. W. Denslow, an artist working on the paper. Born in the
same year and with a mutual interest in books, art, and the theater, they became
firm friends. For the preceding ten years Baum had been contributing jingles,
poems, and short stories to magazines, with only an occasional acceptance. As a
writer, he appeared to be getting nowhere. His first book, Mother Goose in Prose,
was published in 1897, but it failed to sell. In 1898, Baum wrote and Denslow
illustrated Father Goose: His Book. Published in 1899, it was an immediate suc-
cess, with no one more surprised at its amazing popularity than Baum and
Denslow. They followed it swiftly with a book called The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz. About the Wizard, Baum wrote to his brother, “I think it is the best work
I have done, but you never can tell about the strange, queer public.”
The public's opinion of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is history; Baum and
Denslow had arrived, but they were destined to do only one more book together
—Dot and Tot in Merryland, published in 1901.
Baum naturally regarded Oz solely as his creation, but Denslow insisted that
his work as illustrator was fully as important and that he should share in the
profits of such enterprises as the tremendously successful stage play The Wizard
of Oz, based on the book.
When The Marcelous Land of Oz was published as a sequel to The Wizard
in 1904, it was illustrated by John R. Neill. In Neill, Baum and his publishers
had found the virtually perfect artist to depict the fanciful wonderland of Oz
and its whimsical people.
The remainder of the Baum story is one of almost unbroken success. Once
he had public approval of his work, Baum wrote prodigiously. Lest readers sus-
pect him of over-writing, he used seven different pen names. As Edith Van
Dyne, he wrote the “Aunt Jane's Nieces” series of books for girls. As Floyd
Akers, he wrote the “Boy Fortune Hunters” series for boys. As Laura Bancroft,
he wrote Policeman Bluejay, one of his finest fairy tales, later reissued under his
own name as Babes in Birdland. As Schuyler Stanton, he wrote two adult novels,
The Fate of a Crown and Daughters of Destiny.
In 1906, Maud and Frank went abroad on a leisurely tour of Italy, North
Africa, and Egypt. This was a vacation, but out of it came a novel—The Last
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art and literary center rivalling New York, and it was natural that Denslow
should seek out and know the people who moved in these circles. When L. Frank
Baum settled in Chicago, he and Denslow—as fellow workers on the Chicago
Evening World—became friends. Out of this friendship popped a book of jingles
by Baum, hilariously illustrated by “Den.” The two men submitted this joint
effort, Father Goose: His Book, to just about every likely publisher in the country,
Finally, in 1899, it was only by putting up their own money that they persuaded
a Chicago publisher, the George M. Hill Company, to publish and distribute the
book.
The result created a sensation in the book world. Nearly 100,000 copies were
sold in its first year.
In the year following, the Baum-Denslow collaboration team produced The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The two men were now established in their careers
as author and illustrator. In 1901, Dot and Tot in Merryland made its debut,
perhaps the most delightfully illustrated of all the Denslow books.
But the storm clouds were gathering. In 1902, the musical extravaganza, The
Wizard of Oz, opened at the old Majestic Theater on New York's Columbus
Circle. At that time the Majestic was a brand new playhouse. The play, which
bore almost no resemblance to the book, was a resounding success. Denslow
believed that as illustrator of the book, he should share in the proceeds of the
play. Neither the producer nor the author of the play agreed.
Thus, the Baum-Denslow collaboration was ended. Denslow went East and
worked for a time with the Elbert Hubbard group at East Aurora, New York.
He was a staff artist on the New York Herald. During these years, he wrote and
illustrated a series of delightful nursery books: The ABC Book, The Night Before
Christmas, Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, Animal Farm, and many
others. He also wrote and illustrated Billy Bounce, much in the style and format
of the Oz books. With Paul West, he wrote and illustrated The Pearl and the
Pumpkin, which was translated into a Broadway musical comedy with only
minor success.
Denslow even wrote and illustrated a small book called The Scarecrow
and the Tin Man. Of course, the word “Oz" was not used in it. Ironically, a re-
print of this little book was sold in the lobbies of New York theaters showing
the motion picture The Wizard of Oz, a few years ago.
Denslow's later years were not pleasant ones. Ill and unable to work at
the end, he died penniless in Buffalo, New York, in 1915.
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John R. Neill (1877-1943)
J ois R. Neill was born in Philadelphia on November 12, 1877,
of Irish, Scottish, and Holland-Dutch ancestry. After completing high school, he
attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his only
formal art training.
Upon leaving the academy, he entered the field of newspaper illustrating,
working for the New York Evening Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the
Philadelphia North American. While on the staff of the latter paper, when he was
but twenty-five, Neill illustrated his first Oz book, The Marcelous Land of Oz,
a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which had been published four years
before in 1900. The second Oz book was an immediate success; even today, as
The Land of Oz, it is a “best seller” among Oz titles.
There were many who mourned the passing of the Baum-Denslow partner-
ship, which had resulted in such delightful books as Dot and Tot in Merryland;
Father Goose: His Book; and, of course, The Wizard. But it took only a few Oz
books to establish Neill as admirably talented for depicting the famous Baum
characters.
While Neill worked on his superb drawings and paintings for The Road to
Oz and The Emerald City of Oz, he also illustrated Evangeline, Snowbound,
and other classics.
At this time, Neill was undoubtedly strongly influenced by the great Eng-
lish illustrator, Arthur Rackham, as were many other artists of the period. The
Neill style is one which combines rare beauty with great charm and a captivating
sense of humor. -
In all, Neill illustrated thirty-five Oz books, of which he also wrote three;
he also illustrated other Baum books: Sky Island, The Sea Fairies, John Dough
and the Cherub, as well as a series of six small books known as “The Little Wizard
Stories of Oz.”
Neill once remarked that he considered the Oz books merely a pleasant
annual chore, and that he had no idea of the books' importance to their readers
until he wrote The Wonder City of Oz. During all these years, Neill was also
illustrating magazine stories for the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies Home
Journal, and other national magazines.
His home, in the early part of his career, was at Devil's Acre, bordering the
upper Delaware. Later, he built a home on Long Island which included a studio
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for himself and a small theater. Here his four daughters staged plays for which
he devised and painted the scenery. The latter years of his life were spent at
his country home near Flanders, New Jersey, which bore the “Neillish" name
of Endolane.
His daughters, now grown women, were models for many of the children
who still adventure in the “Never-Never-Grow-Older” Land of Oz. It is typical
of John R. Neill, who reflected the beauty of the world in pictures, that he often
made a small design even of his name, with John contracted to the now quaint
“Jno.”
Ruth Plumly Thompson (1900- )
Like John R. Neill and W. W. Denslow, RUTH PLUMLY THOMP-
son was born in Philadelphia. At seventeen, she was selling verse and fairy tales
to the fondly remembered St. Nicholas magazine. One year later, she was a staff
member of St. Nicholas, and editor and writer of a weekly page for children for
the Philadelphia Ledger.
When L. Frank Baum died in 1919, the publishers of the Oz books began
looking for someone to continue the series. Miss Thompson's work in St. Nicholas
attracted their attention. Her first book for the series, The Royal Book of Oz,
appeared in 1921. From then until 1940, she wrote an Oz book a year—nineteen
in all. Miss Thompson gave up adventuring in Oz to write other children's books
and articles, and to devote her time to television and radio projects.
In addition to the Oz books, Ruth Plumly Thompson is widely known as
the author of ten fairy tale volumes, scores of verses, serials for juvenile maga-
zines, syndicate features, magazine fiction and articles, radio and television
scripts, and teen-age fiction. She now makes her home in Ardmore on the Phila-
delphia Main Line.
Jack Snow (1907- )
Bons August 15, 1907, in Piqua, Ohio, of Irish, German, and
American-Indian ancestry, JACK SNow was 12 years old when L. Frank Baum
died. He immediately wrote to Reilly and Lee, suggesting that he be commis-
sioned the new author to write the Oz books. A polite person on the staff of
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Rachel R. Cosgrove (1922- )
Bonn December eleventh—uncomfortably close to Christmas,
according to Miss Cosgrove—at Westernport, Maryland, RACHEL CoscRove at-
tended schools in Maryland and West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia
Wesleyan College (Buckhannon) with majors in biology and public speaking
and with the degree Bachelor of Science. -
Occupation-wise, Miss Cosgrove does pharmacological research for a large
pharmaceutical concern near New York City. Her job classification is that of
chemist.
The Land of Oz was the first Oz book Miss Cosgrove read; at the early age
of five years, it made such an impression on her that it still remains her favorite
Oz book (with the possible exception, of course, of The Hidden Valley of Oz).
Her likes run in the B's–Baum—bowling–bridge—and she has an understandable
weakness for cats of high or low pedigree, and for white rats, like Percy.
“Dirk" [Dirk Gringhuis (1918- )
Dink GRINGHUIs was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of Welsh-
Dutch descent. When he was a little boy and grown-ups asked him, “What do
you want to be when you become a man?” Dirk always answered that he wanted
to be an artist.
He began his career by studying under several painters. In 1939, he studied
illustration at the American Academy of Art in Chicago; after two years there,
he went to New York City for further study. -
In 1942, Dirk, now married, returned to Grand Rapids, where advertising
art beckoned. In 1946, he did his first juvenile illustrations. This outlet for his
talents so fascinated him that he decided to devote all his time to it. In 1947,
he moved to the tulip town of Holland, Michigan, where he wrote and illustrated
his first book. Since then, he has written three more books for children, worked
as a free lance illustrator, and headed the art department at Hope College.
Dirk now has a country home just outside Lansing, where he lives with his
family, Mrs. Gringhuis, eight-year-old Rickey, a dachshund named Otto, and a
cat with the incredible name of Tommasacio. For relaxation, Dirk paints portraits,
takes an active part in an arts and crafts society, and in the Cub Scouts.
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