Next we get this whole back story about the land of Ev. Hearing about this, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion come with Ozma and her army from Oz across the Deadly Desert to rescue her. So, the Princess wants Dorothy’s head, is refused and locks up Dorothy and her friends. The current Princess is very vain and can change her head whenever she wants. We also meet these characters called The Wheelers (who show up in the movie Return to Oz) and Dorothy is taken hostage and locked away by the current Princess of Ev. Dorothy is joined by the hen, Billina, and eventually Tik-Tok, the mechanical man. Tik-Tok and the Nome King would prove popular enough that they would feature in several books later in the series. We also meet the royal family of Ev (who need rescuin’) and the Nome King. The new characters we meet are Billina, a talking hen, Tik-Tok the mechanical man and the Hungry Tiger, a companion of the Cowardly Lion that is always hungry (obviously). And, obviously since the book is named for her, Princess Ozma also returns. Once Dorothy realizes she’s in a similar fairly land that happens to neighbor with Oz, she doesn’t yearn to travel home to Kansas, like in the first book, she longs to return to Oz.Īlso returning in this book are the original three companions Scarecrow, Tin Man (Nick Chopper) and Cowardly Lion, who makes his first appearance since Book 1. There Dorothy meets more crazy weird characters that she winds up traveling with. Dorothy is traveling with her uncle on a boat when a storm hits and carries Dorothy to the fairly land of Ev. Instead of taking place in Oz, it takes place in a neighboring fairy land called Ev.

It also featured the triumphant return of Dorothy Gale. It had been three years since the last Oz sequel, Marvelous Land of Oz. Click the image above to see the previous entries in my Oz book read through. It’s time to take a look at the next book in the original Baum Oz series Ozma of Oz.

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