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The Patchwork Girl of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Book Overview: 

An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has turned his beloved uncle Unc Nunkie and the wife of the Liquid's creator into marble statues. Ojo is joined by the patchwork girl Scraps, Dorothy, Dr. Pipt's Glass Cat, the Woozy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. They eventually visit the Emerald City to ask for help from the Wizard of Oz.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Scraps, gazing at him in astonishment. "Do you need more stuffing? Then why don't you use cotton, such as I am stuffed with?"

"I don't need that kind," said Ojo.

"But a mouth is to talk with, isn't it?"

"It is also to eat with," replied the boy. "If I didn't put food into my mouth, and eat it, I would get hungry and starve."

"Ah, I didn't know that," she said. "Give me some."

Ojo handed her a bit of the bread and she put it in her mouth.

"What next?" she asked, scarcely able to speak.

"Chew it and swallow it," said the boy.

Scraps tried that. Her pearl teeth were unable to chew the bread and beyond her mouth there was no opening. Being unable to swallow she threw away the bread and laughed.

"I must get hungry and starve, for I can't eat," she said.71

72 "Neither can I," announced the cat; "but I'm not fool enough to try. Can't you understand that you and I are superior peo. . . Read More

Community Reviews

2.75

Credo che la parte migliore di questo libro sia stata la parte iniziale dell'opera ambientata a casa del mago, seguita da il rivedere i personaggi dei volumi precedenti della saga.

Per il resto, ho trovato l'opera non particolarmente coinvolgente, in quanto tende ad essere ripetitiva come a stru

Although this one began with a few gems and a sparkling new character addition; it quickly turned into a bore. The phrase of Scraps; 'I am original, therefore thoroughly incomparable' was so promising but not much came out of it to .

3,5
Not as good as the other books.

This was my favorite Oz book so far! Review to come (maybe)

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