He’s about to be turned into a statue, so he runs away and takes the witch’s magic powder of life. We start with a little boy called Tip who was sold to an old witch. The Marvelous Land of Oz, unlike The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is not a portal fantasy with a Kansas girl, but one starring only the bizarre characters of Oz. I count myself as a relatively outside the box thinker, but Baum makes my imagination look like 1970s TV. The thing is, Baum’s creativity and sheer zaniness is off the scales. So, a little like the Wizard, Baum was trapped by Oz and made the best of it. I saw hounded, because apparently Baum wanted to do other things, pursue other themes in different kinds of writing, but his other ventures didn’t pan out and his fans wanted more Oz. By this time it was a stage play too, and the original artist, W.W. Frank Baum wrote the second Oz book for his many thousands of fans and it was published in 1904.
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