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The Wishing Horse of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
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Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig. Can Dorothy and Pigasus break the enchantment and rescue Princess Ozma? Will they forge an unlikely alliance with the Gnome King? And who is the real owner and possessor of the secret of the wishing emeralds?
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig. Can Dorothy and Pigasus break the enchantment and rescue Princess Ozma? Will they forge an unlikely alliance with the Gnome King? And who is the real owner and possessor of the secret of the wishing emeralds?
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"Ah, so there you are?" he cried in his best meant-to-be-cheerful voice. "I have just sent Pinny Penny to feed your horse."
"My horse?" barked Matiah, starting up in dismay, then catching a meaning wink from the King, he quickly winked back.
"It seemed wisest," murmured Skamperoo, "to say nothing of your magic powers for the present. All this will be OUR secret," he finished playfully.
"Oh, yes, yes—indubitably!" While Skamperoo was still wondering what "indubitably" meant, Matiah hurried out of the room and took a long drink of water from the old-fashioned fountain in the hall.
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By far the best Thompson book so far. The plot wasn't just the standard walking around Oz and meeting new people line we've now read so many times. You couldn't predict how Dorthy was going to solve this conflict right off the bat, so it made you interested in reading to figure out how everything wa
One of the better of the Plumly Thompsons.
More plot than usual, and she makes nice use of some bits of Oz history.
Nice to see Dorothy back in action, the villains are kind of sweet in their friendship, I love the resolution of the meeting with the Black Witch.
Bitty Bit the Seer and Piddy Penny, the
Somehow, I missed reading this Oz book back when I was young. For me, it was such a pleasure to leave worries behind & go back in time to Oz & it's wonderful characters.
Okay, so I’m now up to the 29th instalment in the Wizard of Oz series, and by this point, I’m pretty sure I’m getting towards the end of the Ruth Plumly Thompson books and getting ready to move on to my third Oz author.
As you can imagine, and as I’ve talked about in my previous reviews, we’re gettin
Purchased for $4 at a used bookstore in Saughteries, NY, near Woodstock. This is the last Oz book reprinted by Del Rey in 1986. There were plans to reprint the remaining four Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books (they are listed as forthcoming in the first few pages), but I guess the series wasn't selling
Nowhere close to the charm, magic, and inventiveness of the originals. These books should not be considered Oz canon. With this book, Thompson has written more Oz books than Baum, but I wish she'd stopped after two or three.
This was a very lovely book. I know some Oz fans have a lot of problems with Ruth Plumly Thompson, though why exactly I don't know. I heard she was chosen by Frank L. Baum himself to take over writing the books and she did a good job of it for years. This is the first book of hers I've ever read and