In short order, they meet a lost little boy named Button Bright and Polychrome, daughter of the Rainbow, who danced off the edge of the rainbow as it disappeared. As they walk together, the road split into seven paths and they decide to take the seventh. While taking a walk with her dog Toto, Dorothy Gale meets a wandering hobo known as the Shaggy Man, who carries the Love Magnet. After a few further adventures, Dorothy uses the magic belt she’d captured from the Nome King, and they arrive at the Emerald City, where, among other happenings, Jim the cab-horse races the Sawhorse and Eureka the cat undergoes a trial for apparently eating one of the Wizard’s nine tiny piglets. While there, a balloon falls from the sky, and Dorothy meets her old friend the humbug Wizard of Oz.Įscaping the Mangaboos, the companions travel through the beautiful Valley of Voe, which features invisible people and marauding bears, meet the “Braided Man” in Pyramid Mountain, and fight the hideous, winged, wooden Gargoyles. Jim and Dorothy’s cat, Eureka, are able to talk and so Dorothy knows that once again she is in a fairyland. An earthquake opens a crevice which they fall through, ending up in the land of the Mangaboos, strange vegetable people who blame Dorothy and Zeb for damaging their glass dwellings. She joins her cousin Zeb for a ride in a buggy drawn by a horse named Jim. After more adventures, Ozma officially names Dorothy a Princess of Oz.ĭorothy Gale is on her way to see Uncle Henry in California at Hugson’s Ranch.

Readers also meet the Nome King, Roquat the Red, for the first time. In order to rescue the royal family of Ev, Dorothy and her friends must travel to the land of the Nome King. Ozma of Oz comes to their rescue, along with old friends, the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Lunch pails grow on trees and there are strange creatures known as Wheelers, with wheels instead of hands or feet.Īs they travel through the land of Ev, they meet Tik-Tok, a mechanical man, and are captured by the head-changing Princess Langwidere. They arrive on the shore of a strange land and discover that Billina is able to talk. Dorothy falls overboard during a violent storm and, along with a yellow hen named Billina, drifts away in a large poultry crate.

The novel begins as vacationing Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry board a steamship bound for Australia. Tip escapes with “Jack Pumpkinhead” and they travel to the Emerald City. Not at all frightened, Mombi shakes some “powder of life” onto the tall figure and then captures Tip and threatens to turn him into a marble statue come morning. Intending to frighten Mombi, who is returning from a trip, Tip creates a man out of wood, topped with a pumpkin for a head. The Marvelous Land of Oz begins not long after the final scenes in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and follows the adventures of Tip, a young boy, whose guardian is the witch, Mombi.

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