The Lost Princess Of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

Overview

L. Frank Baum's eleventh canonical Oz novel is titled The Lost Princess of Oz. Glinda discovers her Great Book of Records is gone as she awakens at her palace in the Quadling Country. Her magic instruments are also gone when she prepares to construct a spell to find them. To discover Ozma and the lost magic, Glinda, Dorothy, and the Wizard form search groups. The previously undiscovered settlements of Thi and Herku are entered by Dorothy, the Wizard, and their group. The dishpan made of gold and set with diamonds belonged to Cayke the cookie baker. In a gold orchard, there is just one peach tree that Button-Bright uses for food. Despite the local animals' warnings, he steals the gold peach pit to show Dorothy, Betsy, and Trot later. Together with Glinda and the Wizard, Dorothy and her pals attempt to free Button-Bright from Ugu's fortress. Ugu adjusts the enchantment so that he keeps his human stature and violent personality when Dorothy uses the Magic Belt to transform him into a dove. Ozma returns to the Emerald City after being released from the jail Ugu had placed her in. Days later, Ugu requests Dorothy's forgiveness for what he did as he flies in to see her, but subsequently decides he prefers his new life as a dove.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357279222
Publisher:	DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Lyman Frank Baum was an American writer best known for his children's books, especially The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, above 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made many attempts to lead his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a milestone of 20th-century cinema. Baum was born on 15 May 1856, near Syracuse, New York. His father, Benjamin, was a rich oil businessman, and young Frank developed in comfort. As a young child Frank was teached at home with his kins, but at the age of 12 he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. He followed a variety of careers varying from acting to newspaper reporting to theatrical management to writing plays. Baum married Maud Gage, daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a famous women's suffrage campaigner. His famous works are Mother Goose, Father Goose, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Master Key, etc. He made and headed The Oz Film Manufacturing Company in 1914. Baum expired on 6 May 1919 and was buried in Glendale, California.

Date of Birth:

May 15, 1856

Date of Death:

May 6, 1919

Place of Birth:

Chittenango, New York

Place of Death:

Hollywood, California

Education:

Attended Peekskill Military Academy and Syracuse Classical School

Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1

There could be no doubt of the fact: Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost. She had completely disappeared. Not one of her subjects-not even her closest friends-knew what had become of her.

It was Dorothy who first discovered it. Dorothy was a little Kansas girl who had come to the Land of Oz to live and had been given a delightful suite of rooms in Ozma's royal palace, just because Ozma loved Dorothy and wanted her to live as near her as possible, so the two girls might be much together.

Dorothy was not the only girl from the outside world who had been welcomed to Oz and lived in the royal palace. There was another named Betsy Bobbin, whose adventures had led her to seek refuge with Ozma, and still another named Trot, who had been invited, together with her faithful companion, Cap'n Bill, to make her home in this wonderful fairyland. The three girls all had rooms in the palace and were great chums; but Dorothy was the dearest friend of their gracious Ruler and only she at any hour dared to seek Ozma in her royal apartments. For Dorothy had lived in Oz much longer than the other girls and had been made a Princess of the realm.

Betsy was a year older than Dorothy and Trot was a year younger, yet the three were near enough of an age to become great playmates and to have nice times together. It was while the three were talking together one morning in Dorothy's room that Betsy proposed they make a journey into the Munchkin Country, which was one of the four great countries of the Land of Oz ruled by Ozma.

"I've never been there yet," said Betsy Bobbin, "but the Scarecrow once told me it isthe prettiest country in all Oz."

"I'd like to go, too," added Trot.

" All right," said Dorothy, " I'll go and ask Ozma. Perhaps she will let us take the Sawhorse and the Red Wagon, which would be much nicer for us than having to walk all the way. This Land of Oz is a pretty big place, when you get to all the edges of it."

So she jumped up and went along the halls of the splendid palace until she came to the royal suite, which filled all the front of the second floor. In a little waiting room sat Ozma's maid, Jellia Jamb, who was busily sewing.

"Is Ozma up yet?" inquired Dorothy.

" I don't know, my dear," replied Jellia. " I haven't heard a word from her this morning. She hasn't even called for her bath or her breakfast, and it is far past her usual time for them."

"That's strange!" exclaimed the little girl.

"Yes," agreed the maid; "but of course no harm could have happened to her. No one can die or be killed in the Land of Oz and Ozma is herself a powerful fairy, and she has no enemies, so far as we know. Therefore I am not at all worried about her, though I must admit her silence is unusual."

"Perhaps," said Dorothy, thoughtfully, "she has overslept. Or she may be reading, or working out some new sort of magic to do good to her people."

" Any of these things may be true," replied Jellia Jamb, 44 so I haven't dared disturb our royal mistress. You, however, are a privileged character, Princess, and I am sure that Ozma wouldn't mind at all if you went in to see her."

"Of course not," said Dorothy, and opening the door of the outer chamber she went in. All was still here. She walked into another room, which was Ozma's boudoir, and then, pushing back a heavy drapery richly broidered with threads of pure gold, the girl entered the sleeping-room of the fairy Ruler of Oz. The bed of ivory and gold was vacant; the room was vacant; not a trace of Ozma was to be found.

Very much surprised, yet still with no fear that anything had happened to her friend, Dorothy returned through the boudoir to the other rooms of the suite. She went into the music room, the library, the laboratory, the bath, the wardrobe and even into the great throne room, which adjoined the royal suite, but in none of these places could she find Ozma.

So she returned to the anteroom where she had left the maid, Jellia Jamb, and said:

"She isn't in her rooms now, so she must have gone out."

" I don't understand how she could do that without my seeing her, " replied Jellia, " unless she made herself invisible."

" She isn't there, anyhow," declared Dorothy.

" Then let us go find her," suggested the maid, who appeared to be a little uneasy.

So they went into the corridors and there Dorothy almost stumbled over a queer girl who was dancing lightly along the passage.

" Stop a minute, Scraps! " she called. Have you seen Ozma this morning?"

Not I! " replied the queer girl, dancing nearer. "I lost both my eyes in a tussle with the Woozy, last night, for the creature scraped 'em both off my face with his square paws. So I put the eyes in my pocket and this morning Button-Bright led me to Aunt Em, who sewed 'em on again. So I've seen nothing at all to-day, except during the last five minutes. So of course I haven't seen Ozma."

"Very well, Scraps," said Dorothy, looking curiously at the eyes, which were merely two round black buttons sewed upon the girl's face.

There were other things about Scraps that would have seemed curious to one seeing her for the first time. She was commonly called "The Patchwork Girl," because her body and limbs were made from a gay-colored patchwork quilt which had been cut into shape and stuffed with cotton...

Table of Contents

Baum followed the huge success of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with thirteen sequels. In this engaging story, aimed at young children, Princess Ozma and the instruments responsible for the Oz magic, mysteriously disappear. Dorothy, the Wizard, and friends try to track down Ozma, along the way encountering Frogman, Lavender Bear, and other bizarre characters.