![]() ![]() I might blame the fact that it's one of two Oz books where my edition was an illustration-less Puffin Classic, but I didn't get much more out of it this time around. That said, as a kid it never was one of my favorites. (Beside, the whole meeting scene is a set-up for a torturous bow/beau pun that would have gone right over my son's head.) As I sometimes do, I edited it while reading it aloud, to make it clear that they did know each other. What I did notice, reading it for the first time in decades, aloud to my three-year-old son, was that the Shaggy Man clearly meets Polychrome for the first time here, even though the two were travelling companions in Road. but I actually don't think I noticed as a kid! The resulting musical was evidently different enough that Baum, always looking to take shortcuts while writing, adapted it back into a novel! Yes there are quite a lot of similarities to Ozma of Oz. ![]() But the stage rights to any characters who appeared in those musicals still belonged to those musicals' producers, so the new musical couldn't feature any of those characters. Baum adapted Ozma of Oz into a stage musical, just as he had Wonderful Wizard and Marvelous Land. Tik-Tok of Oz is an odd book, though I knew none of it when I was a child. ![]()
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