From this point forward, he might be seriously directionally challenged, but he's at least not the same whiny empty-headed boy we knew before. Apparently he must have cameoed in those other books and had some sense knocked into him. So fresh in fact, that even when Button Bright (sadly, a character we are all too familiar with from before) reappears, he is really a completely different character than we knew before. There is another shipwreck (of sorts) but it at least happens in a cool and creative way and even though it's kind of another road trip sort of book, the characters feel fresh and so do the adventures. Both Trot and Cap'n Bill are hard not to like, and the change of pace is more than a little refreshing after all the sameness in the previous book. Not having read a lot of Baum outside of the Oz books, I was a little thrown off by these two characters I was clearly supposed to know already (from Baum's Sea Fairies and Sky Island it turns out) but it's easy enough to recover. I like to think of this as Baum's big crossover episode. You don’t want Santa to bring you coals, do you? Go back immediately and start at the beginning! If you’ve made it all the way to this book, there really is not much to say here. We got Captain Bill, we got Button Bright back, we got a new heroine, we got a bundle of the most random of adventures as per usual + Oz! It looks like I’m going to be returning to Oz for quite awhile and I’m not complaining. + whatever else I might not have discovered yet. + there’s the famous Macguire’s “Wicked” series. There’s always a random time when I go: “Oh, I wonder what’s happening in Oz.” And then BaM in transported there.įun Fact: after a little bit of research I discovered that even after Baum’s death the series kept on going up to about 50 different Oz tales. I find myself unable to leave the magical fairyland of Oz for good.
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