I’m becoming a member of in with a yr lengthy readathon hosted by Lory at Coming into The Enchanted Fort weblog (learn her evaluate and ideas round ebook #1 of the gathering right here.) And CurlyGeek04 from The Ebook Cease weblog.
The readathon is gradual paced, working between December 2023 and January 2025 taking in all 14 books within the sequence. 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.
The Marvelous Land Of Oz sees one other journey for The Scarecrow and The Tin Man together with a number of new characters. The story introduces us to Tip, a younger man who’s below the guardianship of a witch referred to as Mombi. At some point Tip creates Jack Pumpkinhead to scare the witch, however as a substitute they find yourself working away collectively. They meet a picket sawhorse and all journey to The Emerald Metropolis which is now dominated by the Scarecrow. I don’t intend giving freely the entire story however one other attention-grabbing character is the Woggle-Bug, whereas Good-Witch Glinda has a task later within the story.
After the success of the primary story, The Great Wizard Of Oz, I used to be curious as to how Baum would proceed the sequence. I’m glad to say that the second story saved me and now I sit up for studying the third story. As I learn the story, someplace in the back of my thoughts, the odd level appeared acquainted, so I’m questioning if these tales had been learn to me as a really younger baby, maybe once I was at toddler or junior college.
Story description:
“The Marvelous Land of Oz” is the story of the great adventures of the younger boy named Tip as he travels all through the various lands of Oz. Right here he meets with our outdated pals the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, in addition to some new pals like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Picket Sawhorse, the Extremely Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the wonderful Gump. How they thwart the depraved plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the revolt of Common Jinjur and her military of younger ladies is a story as thrilling and endearing right this moment because it was when first revealed over eighty years in the past.
1. The Great 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 Woman 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)
