I’m becoming a member of in with a yr lengthy readathon hosted by Lory at Getting into The Enchanted Fort weblog (learn her evaluation and ideas round ebook #1 of the gathering right here.) And CurlyGeek04 from The E book Cease weblog.
The readathon is sluggish paced, operating between December 2023 and January 2025 taking in all 14 books within the collection. Anybody can participate and there’s no stress to learn the books so as. I purchased a duplicate of the gathering for kindle at simply 49 pence from Amazon.co.uk.
Ozma Of Oz was written in 1907 and is ebook three within the traditional The Wizard of Oz assortment of kids’s tales.
On this story Dorothy returns having been swept away in a storm whereas travelling to Australia together with her uncle. Dorothy is left floating away in a rooster coup with a speaking hen. They find yourself on the shores of a land known as Ev, the place they meet some great new characters.
Alongside the way in which Dorothy meets Tik-Tok, a clockwork man who turns into her protector as she discovered the important thing that winds him up. Simply when she wonders how she is going to ever discover her mates from Oz, they seem below the brand new management of Ozma. The little military have come to rescue the imprisoned Queen of Ev, and so a brand new journey begins.
It’s good to see Dorothy again for this third story and he or she as soon as once more reveals nice bravery in opposition to her foes. I loved the avoidance of combating and the choice methods to fixing a disagreement that Baum wrote about. Among the language and phrase selections mirror the period through which the story was written, and may want additional rationalization if studying it to youngsters of the twenty-first century.
Story description:
Readers of all ages will welcome the possibility to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters because the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, in addition to to fulfill new favorites such because the Hungry Tiger, whose urge for food is by no means happy; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a speaking rooster; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.
Blown overboard whereas crusing together with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself within the fairy realm of Ev. She units out together with her mates to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten youngsters, who’ve been imprisoned by the merciless Nome King. However even Ozma, the smart Ruler of Oz, is not any match for the intelligent king, and it’s as much as Dorothy to avoid wasting everybody from horrible hazard. However will the Nome King’s enchantments be an excessive amount of even for the plucky little lady from Kansas?
1. The Fantastic Wizard of Oz (1900)
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
3. Ozma of Oz (1907)
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
5. The Highway to Oz (1909)
6. The Emerald Metropolis of Oz (1910)
7. The Patchwork Lady of Oz (1913)
8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
11. The Misplaced Princess of Oz (1917)
12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
13. The Magic of Oz (1919)
14. Glinda of Oz (1920)
