Forgot to post this on Monday, but...

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... I now have my review of The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second of the Oz books, up on my site!

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An interesting thing about "The Marvelous Land of Oz" is that it was written with one eye on the subsequent stage adaptation, the way people these days sometimes write novels with the expectation they're going to become movies. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" had had a very successful stage adaptation, so Baun was bearing in mind things that had worked there and new things that might look good on stage. (For instance, the reason there's a lot of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and not so much of the Lion or Dorothy is that the realisation of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man had been one of the major popular successes of the "Wizard" stage show -- and then he ended up not being able to get the same people to repeat the magic for "Land", because "Wizard" was so popular it was still running when "Land" went into production.)

My first encounter with "The Marvelous Land of Oz" was through an animated TV adaptation (which I've talked about a bit on my own LiveJournal). That adaptation had a version of Ozma who retains traces of Tip much longer, with a small but definitely present running subplot about her having to get used to her new identity.