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Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Book 3
The adventures continue! Not quite so charming. . . despite the title, it opens with Dorothy being swept off at sea, and meeting the chicken Bill in the morning, when she lays an egg -- and talks. Dorothy renames her Billina, and they set out on an island they find.
The tree of lunchpails and dinnerpails reveal, on top of Billina's voice, that they have gotten to magical lands.
Subsequent adventures turn on a clockwork man, the king of the land's bargain with the king of the Nomes (Baum believed in phonetic spelling), Ozma arriving over what is now the deadly sands of the Deadly Desert in one of the series' continuity glitches and rescuing Dorothy from a princess, the honesty of the Nome king's offer, discussions of bargains, and more.
Book 3
The adventures continue! Not quite so charming. . . despite the title, it opens with Dorothy being swept off at sea, and meeting the chicken Bill in the morning, when she lays an egg -- and talks. Dorothy renames her Billina, and they set out on an island they find.
The tree of lunchpails and dinnerpails reveal, on top of Billina's voice, that they have gotten to magical lands.
Subsequent adventures turn on a clockwork man, the king of the land's bargain with the king of the Nomes (Baum believed in phonetic spelling), Ozma arriving over what is now the deadly sands of the Deadly Desert in one of the series' continuity glitches and rescuing Dorothy from a princess, the honesty of the Nome king's offer, discussions of bargains, and more.