So, I finally read one of my Christmas presents, Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Princess of Cozytown . This was one of two books she produ...

  The Princess of Cozytown , by Ruth Plumly Thompson - This 1922 collection of short fairy tales by L. Frank Baum's successor to the ...

For Christmas 2012, we present five Christmas poems by Ruth Plumly Thompson, read by Arthur Davis, Mike Conway, Kim McFarland, Sam Milazzo ...

The Wonder Book by Ruth Plumly Thompson is quite possibly the only book written by an Oz author to have a title very similar to an alread...

Thompson's Oz work was not limited to her novels. She also wrote a play, songs, and several poems about Oz, as well as a partial story f...

1976 brought Thompson's twenty-first and final Oz novel. The reason being it was published posthumously. She died of bowel problems (don...

After offering to return to Oz, Thompson vowed never to work with Frank O'Donnell again, especially when he opted to publish Oz books by...

It was 1939 and Oz was... yes, 1939 . Oz was back in the spotlight as a little movie based on Baum's first Oz book was being made by MGM...

1938, Ruth Plumly Thompson was beginning to get fed up. Not only did she dread her drying well of ideas for Oz stories, but all her ideas to...

Another year, another Oz book. Thompson was beginning to run out of ideas and she knew it. 1937's Handy Mandy in Oz introduced Handy Ma...

1936 found Thompson only a little reluctantly returning to Oz. After all, in her previous fifteen books, she had created many characters wor...

1935, Thompson's fifteenth Oz novel, exactly one more than L. Frank Baum had written, not counting short stories, picture books, or anyt...

Remember Speedy, the little boy who visited in The Yellow Knight of Oz ? Well, Thompson had to bring him back, right? Yep, and he got his ow...

Thompson didn't really use many of Baum's human male characters. She of course had the Wizard, and Cap'n Bill got a passing ment...

Remember Pumperdink? Remember Kabumpo? They first appeared back in Thompson's second Oz book, Kabumpo in Oz , in 1922, but since then, w...

Thompson's book for 1931. The title: Pirates in Oz . The cover, a boy and a scruffy, bearded pirate on the rigging of a ship at sea. Wha...

Thompson's 1930 book focuses on one of her first memorable characters: Sir Hokus of Pokes. Although he was mainly a supporting character...

Well, isn't this an appropriate time of year to write this one? In a change of pace for Thompson, we open in Philadelphia with Peter f...

As I come to the end of my first batch of Thompson books (more on the way, don't worry!), I end with her book for 1928, The Giant Horse ...

Something I didn't mention about Thompson that I will say now about her 1927 Oz book. She preferred to use the traditional spelling ...