Handy Mandy in Oz
- 254 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Book 31 in The Wizard of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson Book order (chronological)
Ruth Plumly Thompson was a lifelong children's writer celebrated for continuing the beloved Oz series. Her contributions to Oz are marked by lively imagination and a vibrant array of colorful, unusual characters. A recurring narrative thread sees a child and their supernatural companion stumble into an isolated community whose inhabitants compel them to participate in a singular, repetitive activity. Thompson also leaned into romantic love stories and featured young boys as protagonists, diverging from the primarily female child characters in earlier installments.
During his lifetime, L. Frank Baum wrote 14 novels and 6 short stories about his magical land of Oz. All of these works are contained in volumes 1 and 2 of this bestselling series. When he passed away in 1919, the title of "Royal Historian of Oz" passed to others in an unbroken succession of authors. The first 40 titles they wrote are now referred to as the official Oz Canon. The remaining 25 have long been out of print, with few exceptions. Only 9 are now available for the first time in a collection for those whose love of Dorothy and the magnificent land she visited always wondered 'what happened next?' The wait is over, in a one of a kind edition which includes the titles "The Royal Book of Oz", "Kabumpo in Oz", "The Wishing Horse of Oz", "Captain Salt in Oz", Handy Mandy in Oz", "The Silver Princess in Oz", "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz", "The Mimics in Oz" and "The Shaggy Man of Oz". Don't let another generation pass away without discovering these long lost tales!