Marla slid onto her chair at the kitchen table and announced, ‘I’ve almost decided what I want to be for Halloween.’ Marla’s mother, busy at the stove, seemed not to hear. ‘Mama, I said I’ve almost decided what I want to be for Halloween.’ ‘I heard you. I just have to count stirs,’ said Marla’s […]
In the time of castles a sad queen slipped into the woods on a blue moon midnight. She hurried along the glow of a path lighting up in front of her as she muttered over and over again, ‘Never forever.’ When the cottage appeared under a drapery of vines, as she had been told it […]
Here are Dorothy and the Scarecrow discovering a long row of giant Oz books.
The Quadling owl may be found in the hilly country of the southernmost region of Oz. It nests exclusively in red lemon trees. It dines on red scones dipped in red marmalade. Nothing else suits its fancy. Oh, to be sure, now and again it has tried pancakes and blue Munchkin almonds and several varieties […]
The village baker, dusted in flour head to toe, waved his rolling pin high and shouted orders. The Queen had decreed two dozen walnut cookies to be delivered that afternoon in time for a gathering of regal importance. The baker’s wife and daughter raced here and there, down to the cellar, out to the pasture, […]
Following the death of L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson was asked by the publishers of the Oz books to continue the series with new stories. She accepted the honor of becoming the 2nd Royal Historian of Oz by producing one Oz book each year through the 1920s and 1930s. My own particular favorite of […]
To make this versatile potion, good for invisibility or flight, you will need the following: 1 clarinet 1 steel flagon 3 seeds of any kind (doubt works well) a blue bowl filled half with water from a roaring cataract and half with empty 2 pinches and 1 poke of dirt Start by placing the clarinet […]
Long ago, giants stepped down from the sky and moved into the ice caverns on the snowy peak of the high mountain. There they lived content until one day the giants’ daughter, Bredla, stomped into her parents’ chamber. ‘I’m leaving to go see flowers. Fendak, the falcon, told me about flowers. He says they’re pretty […]
Once in Egypt when the pyramids were young two royal beetles scuttled at dawn from the palace to the long and lonely road home to the quarry. ‘Well, Eleanor, I tell you, that certainly was a hard day’s night, and that’s a fact,’ said Robert, the larger beetle, and he sheened a most lovely green. […]
Once upon a time a woodworker’s apprentice named Trundle, troubled yet again once more by murky dreams of sliding darkness, tossed and turned on his bed of wood shavings. A woman, seen below as she appeared to him, loomed in the murk of his dream and sang this song: ‘Bronze to silver, silver to gold, […]
