Queen Ann in Oz

Author| Karyl Carlson &
Eric Gjovaag
Illustrator| William Campbell & Irwin Terry
Cover artist| William Campbell & Irwin Terry
Country| United States
Language| English
Series| The Oz Books
Genre| Children's Novel Fantasy
Publisher| Emerald City Press / Books of Wonder

Publication date

| 1993
Media type| Print
Pages| 116
ISBN| 978-0-929605-25-8
OCLC| 30045005

Queen Ann in Oz is a 1993 children's novel written by Karyl Carlson and Eric Gjovaag, and illustrated by William Campbell and Irwin Terry. As its title indicates, the book is an entry in the large and growing literature on the Land of Oz, begun by L. Frank Baum and continued by many successors.[1][2][3]

Queen Ann in Oz is a sequel to Baum's 1914 novel Tik-Tok of Oz, and derives characters and plot elements from that book. The sequel occurs "several years" after the original story.[4] Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo (the title character), the Shaggy Man, and Tik-Tok all re-appear;[5] and Moretomore, a small orange dragon, is a hatchling of Quox,[6] the big dragon in Baum's book.

## Synopsis[edit]

At home in Oogaboo, a tiny principality in the northwestern corner of Oz, Queen Ann is restless for a new adventure; she decides to search for her lost parents, King Jol Jemkiph Soforth and Queen Dede Soforth. Her attempt to re-muster her army is a total failure; but four enterprising children are eager to join her search party. They are a girl and three boys, Jody Buttons, Jo Musket, Jo Fountainpen, and Jo Dragon (with his pet Moretomore). Ann also writes to the Shaggy Man, inviting him to meet them on their way.

After receiving Ann's letter via mailbird, the Shaggy Man investigates the situation, but with limited success. Glinda's Great Book of Records is surprisingly unhelpful on the location of the missing royals. It follows their activities well enough, up to a point -- then breaks off with a cryptic "forget it." Princess Ozma tries to find them in the Magic Picture, but it shows only a pink haze with the inscription "no data available."

Shaggy meets Ann and her party; they travel to Sand City, ruled by King Lysander and Queen Cassandra. (Puns and word play on "sand" flow freely.) A patch of quicksand speeds them on their way. They encounter the overly eager practitioners of Barberville, and spend an idyllic interval at the Friendly Forest.

Finally they reach a wall with a gate in it. The gate bears a strange warning:

FORGETVILLE
Beware the

The wall surrounds a fog-shrouded village. When the members of the party enter, they lose their memories. Moretomore is immune from the spell, because he carries with him a fragment of his natal eggshell, which prevents him from ever forgetting anything. The little dragon is desperate to help his companions, but doesn't know what to do. Ozma, however, has been monitoring the Shaggy Man's progress, as she told him she would; and she sends Tik-Tok to help. The mechanical man brings the search party members out of Forgetville. The searchers learn to counter the memory spell with forget-me-nots, and they draw the inhabitants out too -- including the lost King and Queen of Oogaboo. They also seek to end the spell on the town.

They find and read the journal of Amnesia, the witch who cast the spell. They learn that they can bring the wall down with the "Ancient Traditional Wall Removal Method." Shaggy suspects that this is a reference to the story of Jericho. The searchers and townspeople re-enact the siege of Jericho; they march around the city seven times, Jo Musket plays his trumpet, and the multitude shouts at dawn. The wall falls and the spell is broken. Forgetville returns to being the town of Goldendale, as it was before.

Ozma arrives with breakfast; together, the characters piece out the story of how Goldendale lost its memory, a tale that involves Jo Jemkiph, the witch Amnesia, and the Love Magnet (from The Road to Oz). Ozma uses the Magic Belt to bring the former Amnesia, now Amy, from Butterfield, Kansas, where the Shaggy Man knew her and stole the Love Magnet from her (closing a story loop with Baum's original books). In the process, the Shaggy Man's true name is revealed: he's Shagrick Mann (but Ozma agrees to keep this knowledge secret).

Ann's reunion with her parents is a happy one. The people of Goldendale choose Jol Jemkiph and Dede Soforth as their rulers. Ann remains in power in Oogaboo.

## Old-time religion[edit]

The story of the siege of Jericho is told in the Old Testament of the Bible, primarily in the Book of Joshua, Chapter 6. Baum, however, was not a traditional Christian; to the contrary, he was skeptical of organized religion, and influenced by spiritualism and Theosophy.[7] Biblical allusions and references are generally not found in Baum's work.[8] In bringing the story of Jericho into Queen Ann in Oz, Carlson and Gjovaag take the Oz mythos in an atypical direction.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Paul Nathanson, Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America, Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1991.
2. ^ Suzanne Rahn, The Wizard of Oz: Shaping an Imaginary World, New York, Twayne, 1998.
3. ^ Michael O'Neal Riley, Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum, Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 1997.
4. ^ Karyl Carlson and Eric Gjovaag, Queen Ann in Oz, New York, Emerald City Books, 1993; p. 16.
5. ^ Jack Snow, Who's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; pp. 8, 188, and 213.
6. ^ Snow, p. 173.
7. ^ Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 27, 50-1, 65-6.
8. ^ Their absence is reflected in: L. Frank Baum, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Patrick Hearn, revised and enlarged edition, New York, W. W. Norton, 2000.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Canonical
books|

| L. Frank
Baum|

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* The Marvelous Land of Oz
* Ozma of Oz
* Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
* The Road to Oz
* The Emerald City of Oz
* The Patchwork Girl of Oz
* Tik-Tok of Oz
* The Scarecrow of Oz
* Rinkitink in Oz
* The Lost Princess of Oz
* The Tin Woodman of Oz
* The Magic of Oz
* Glinda of Oz
* Little Wizard Stories of Oz

|

Ruth Plumly
Thompson|

* The Royal Book of Oz
* Kabumpo in Oz
* The Cowardly Lion of Oz
* Grampa in Oz
* The Lost King of Oz
* The Hungry Tiger of Oz
* The Gnome King of Oz
* The Giant Horse of Oz
* Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz
* The Yellow Knight of Oz
* Pirates in Oz
* The Purple Prince of Oz
* Ojo in Oz
* Speedy 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
* Yankee in Oz
* The Enchanted Island of Oz

Others|

* The Wonder City of Oz
* The Scalawagons of Oz
* Lucky Bucky in Oz
* The Magical Mimics in Oz
* The Shaggy Man of Oz
* The Hidden Valley of Oz
* Merry Go Round in Oz
* The Forbidden Fountain of Oz
* The Ozmapolitan of Oz
* The Wicked Witch of Oz
* The Giant Garden of Oz
* The Runaway in Oz
* The Rundelstone of Oz
* The Emerald Wand of Oz
* Trouble Under Oz

Alternate|

* Dorothy of Oz
* Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage

Related books
by Baum|

* The Magical Monarch of Mo
* The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
* Queen Zixi of Ix
* John Dough and the Cherub
* The Sea Fairies
* Sky Island

Locations
and elements|

* Land of Oz
* Emerald City
* Quadling Country
* Yellow brick road
* Deadly Desert
* Land of Ev
* Merryland
* Ruby slippers
* Silver shoes

Characters|

| Created by
Baum|

* Dorothy Gale
* Toto
* Aunt Em
* Uncle Henry
* Princess Ozma
* The Wizard of Oz
* Scarecrow
* Tin Woodman
* Cowardly Lion
* Glinda, the Good Witch of the South
* Good Witch of the North
* Wicked Witch of the East
* Wicked Witch of the West
* Billina
* Glass Cat
* Jack Pumpkinhead
* Jellia Jamb
* Jinjur
* John Dough
* Mombi
* Munchkins
* Nome King
* Pastoria
* Patchwork Girl
* Polychrome
* Queen Lurline
* Shaggy Man
* Soldier with the Green Whiskers
* Tik-Tok
* Winged monkeys
* Woggle-Bug

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Created by
other writers|

* Jinnicky the Red Jinn
* Kabumpo
* Peter Brown

Other writers|

| Authors|

* John R. Neill
* Jack Snow
* Rachel Cosgrove Payes
* Eloise Jarvis McGraw
* Dick Martin
* Alexander Volkov
* Eric Shanower
* Gregory Maguire
* Sherwood Smith
* Roger S. Baum

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Illustrators|

* William Wallace Denslow
* John R. Neill
* Frank Kramer
* Dirk Gringhuis
* Dick Martin
* Leonid Vladimirsky
* Eric Shanower
* William Stout

Related|

* Political interpretations
* Copyright status

Adaptations and other derivative works

Stage|

* The Wizard of Oz (1902)
* The Woggle-Bug
* The Tik-Tok Man of Oz
* The Wizard of Oz (1942)
* The Wiz
* The Marvelous Land of Oz
* The Wizard of Oz (1987)
* The Wizard of A.I.D.S.
* Twister
* Wicked
* The Wizard of Oz (2011)
* The Woodsman

Films|

* The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
* The Patchwork Girl of Oz
* The Magic Cloak of Oz
* His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
* The Wizard of Oz (1925)
* The Wizard of Oz (1933)
* The Wizard of Oz (1939)
* The Wizard of Oz (1950)
* Rainbow Road to Oz (unproduced)
* Return to Oz (1964, TV)
* The Wizard of Mars
* The Wonderful Land of Oz
* Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde
* Journey Back to Oz
* Oz
* The Wiz
* The Wizard of Oz (1982)
* Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
* Return to Oz (1985)
* Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz
* The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (TV)
* The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (TV)
* Lion of Oz
* The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (TV)
* Apocalypse Oz
* After the Wizard
* Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz
* Dorothy and the Witches of Oz
* Oz the Great and Powerful
* Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
* OzLand
* Guardians of Oz
* The Wiz Live! (TV)
* Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
* The Steam Engines of Oz
* Rainbow
* Wicked

TV series|

* Tales of the Wizard of Oz
* Off to See the Wizard
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986–87)
* The Wizard of Oz (1990)
* The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz
* The Oz Kids
* Tin Man
* Wizard of Odd (episode)
* Once Upon a Time
* Lost in Oz
* Emerald City
* Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

Novels|

* The Wizard of the Emerald City
* A Barnstormer in Oz
* Mister Tinker in Oz
* Sir Harold and the Gnome King
* Was
* Queen Ann in Oz
* The Magic Dishpan of Oz
* The Wicked Years series
* Visitors from Oz
* Paradox in Oz
* The Hidden Prince of Oz
* The Unknown Witches of Oz
* Bloodstained Oz
* The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
* Dorothy Must Die
* The Wicked Will Rise

Comics|

* Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz
* Adventures in Oz
* The Enchanted Apples of Oz
* Oz Squad
* Lost Girls
* Dorothy
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2005)
* Cheshire Crossing
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009)
* The Marvelous Land of Oz

Games|

* The Wizard of Oz (arcade)
* The Wizard of Oz (pinball)
* The Wizard of Oz (1985 video game)
* The Wizard of Oz (1993 video game)
* The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
* Emerald City Confidential

Related|

* The Oz Film Manufacturing Company
* The International Wizard of Oz Club
* The Baum Bugle
* Oz Park
* Land of Oz (theme park)
* Wizard of Oz festival
* Wizard of Oz Museum
* Oz-story Magazine
* Oz Before the Rainbow

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