Cross-posted from Vovatia . Much of the plot of Speedy in Oz takes place on Umbrella Island, a land that flies through the air under the po...

Cross-posted from my LiveJournal . One character I see cropping up from time to time on lists of favorites is literally a living fossil. Te...

To continue with my old posts on characters from Ojo , here's Mooj, a magician and a clockmaker, who was known to turn people into clock...

Since Jared recently reviewed both Ojo and Speedy , I might as well cross-post some of my old entries on characters in these books. This p...

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...

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz , L. Frank Baum introduces his fourth boy protagonist to the Oz series, Ojo the Unlucky. He's not really a ...

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...

My computer burnt out on me again. Considering it's tax season, I've decided to wait to see what my tax refund will be and probably ...

Having been off the internet for some unknown reason, and coming back from a little holiday in Melbourne with Mum, it's high time I got ...

One thing for which Oz is known is its collection of magically animated beings. In that fairyland, anything from a scarecrow to a footstool...