'Join Tik-Tok and friends on an exciting, imaginative journey through the thrilling world of Oz, complete with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic.An enduring favorite.'-School Library Journal. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite.

Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it-the first maps of Oz ever published! The rest of Baum's tale is filled with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic.Ĭapturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter Tik-Tok and Queen Ann with her army.

There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the wicked Nome King. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked and washed ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. That's why it might be a wiser idea to venture further into the Oz universe, instead of remaking Dorothy's classic yellow brick road sojourn over and over again.Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends-both old and new-on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Throughout these novels, Baum crafted dozens of characters deserving of movie treatment, from Polychrome to Button Bright. While 'Return to Oz' did finally bring some iconic Oz characters into live-action, darkness was never the point of Baum's work. And what a work it was: there are 14 'Oz' books and four short story compilations, not even getting into the volumes written by other authors after his passing. Thus far, the closest we've gotten is 1985's remarkably dark 'Return to Oz,' and if you saw that movie as a kid, you certainly still carry the mental scars from it. Sure, we're all familiar with Baum's first book, which famously became the classic 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz,' but Baum's stories about that magical land didn't end after Dorothy Gale tripped her way back over the rainbow - in fact, the best stuff was packed into numerous sequel novels.

Tik tok of oz by l frank baum