He surmised that the Nome King, ruler of the underground Nome Kingdom, captured him. The Shaggy Man relates how Ozma sent him here via the Magic Belt because he wanted to find his brother, who went digging underground in Colorado and disappeared. The flowers, not having hearts, are unaffected by the Magnet, and force the travelers to leave, taking with them the newly plucked Rose Princess Ozga, a cousin of Ozma, the ruler of Oz. Just as the Royal Gardener (apparently the only human allowed in this flowery kingdom) is about to pass sentence on Betsy and Hank, the Shaggy Man falls through the greenhouse’s roof, and charms the Gardener into sparing all of their lives with his Love Magnet. They arrive at a large greenhouse that is the domain of the Rose Kingdom, where the roses tell them that no strangers are allowed. Glinda the Good, protector of Oz, magically rearranges the path through the mountains and Queen Ann and her army march out of Oz into a low-lying, befogged country.īetsy Bobbin, a girl who is a year older than Dorothy Gale, and her loyal mule Hank have washed ashore during a storm. Seventeen men eventually make up the Army of Oogaboo (sixteen officers and one private) they march out of their valley. Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a small monarchy separated from the rest of Oz’s Winkie Country, sets out to raise an army to conquer Oz. Summaries Frank Baum – Tik-Tok of Oz 1914 – First printing Subsequent maps from the publisher “corrected” the compass rose, but not the locations. Unfortunately for the principle of consistency, this initial map of Oz was drawn backwards, with the Munchkin Country in the left and the Winkie Country in the right, with the compass rose reversed to keep the Munchkin Country in the east and the Winkie Country in the west. The endpapers of the first edition held maps: one of Oz itself, and one of the continent on which Oz and its neighboring countries, which proved to be a very popular feature. Baum’s books were facing stiff new competition - from his own earlier books. Its first edition sold a little over 14,000 copies - a respectable figure, but 3,000 fewer than T he Patchwork Girl of Oz had done the year before.
Tik-Tok of Oz was more modestly produced than earlier Oz books, with twelve color plates instead of sixteen. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in The Road to Oz) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.
Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book written by L.
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