Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz

The twenty-third entry in the Oz series and the ninth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, the inheritor of the series after L. Frank Baum’s passing, Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) features everything an Oz reader could want: a journey to the Emerald City, strange inhabitants with even stranger predicaments, and magic items that never fail to save the day in unexpected ways.

Peter Brown, a Philadelphia-born boy first introduced in The Gnome King of Oz (1927), finds himself intolerably bored on a ...