The Scarecrow of Oz
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This is an incredible book! Easily one of L. Frank Baum’s best. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m sure I’ll delight in it!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
“The Scarecrow of Oz” is a fantastic book to have on your bookshelf with the rest of the Oz books in the series. You’ll like the Ork and his friends, Pon the gardener’s boy and Princess Gloria.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I really loved reading this book I couldn’t place it down. This book is a classic I LOVED it it really feels like I am having adverntures right along with the characters.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Though the delightful The Patchwork Girl Of Oz (1913) may be the overall favorite of dedicated Oz enthusiasts, L. Frank Baum’s The Scarecrow Of Oz (1915) is very likely his greatest Oz novel, as its tale is warmly and enthusiastically told, moves forwards superbly, and the only padding establish within its pages is the straw that stuffs the Scarecrow’s body.
Baum wanted to transfer characters Trot (real name: Mayre Griffith) and her much older guardian, Captain Bill, of his non-Oz titles The Sea Fairies (1911) and Sky Island (1912), into Oz permanently, and they are the apparent stars of the book until the Scarecrow is introduced on its 173rd page. Though Trot, like Betsy Bobbin before her, is nearly identical to Dorothy Gale in manner and appearance and would in later volumes largely fade into a pale replica of her, Baum here allows Trot to mandate the narrative and spectacle a number of admirable, heartening qualities. Perennial lost boy Button – Bright (real name: Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith), who is learned buried face down in a tiny mountain of popped corn, is also a key player.
Caught in a monstrous vortex that appears out of nowhere while sailing on cool American ocean waters, Trot and Captain Bill awaken in a strangely lit underwater grotto. Though the narrow, claustrophobically confining passage they are obligated to enter and follow does not lead them directly to Oz, it does lead them to another of Baum’s fairytale kingdoms. As in previous titles, readers may question whether Trot and Captain Bill have died and passed into the afterlife; certainly their early travails have a purgatory – like quality. In a hilarious episode, the twosome find themselves trapped on a tiny, lush island with the most cantankerous man living, who complains that the trees are too green, the water “dreadfully wet,” and that the sun, which unpleasantly “shines in the daytime,” is useless, because “it disappears just as soon as it starts to get dark.” This “small ancient man of the island” is in exile, and certainly seems to occupy his own tiny circle in hell.
As in Sky Island, readers are agreed brilliant expository information about Button – Bright; this is vital, because Button – Bright, when appearing later in the Oz chronicle, was regularly described as an annoying idiot with a tabula rasa for a mind (“Some folks reflect I’m stupid. I guess I am,” he goes so far to say in Sky Island). But, in the Scarecrow Of Oz, Baum clarifies Button – Bright to his audience in nearly Zen – like terms. Button – Bright is “nearly as destitute of nerves as the Scarecrow…nothing ever astonished him much; nothing ever apprehensive him or made him miserable. Excellent chance or terrible chance he accepted with a silent smile, never complaining, whatever happened.” Is Button – Bright a young wandering Buddha? Button – Bright, who has an exceptionally hardy appetite, is enthralled by both the beauties of scenery and of fluke. A junior lord of unforeseen contingency, an open meadow, a hedge of berry bushes, or a fluttering butterfly is all that is necessary to send him dashing off blissfully into spatial nothingness. In the Scarecrow Of Oz, Button – Bright, who lives purely in the moment, seems to possess the secret of happiness, if no longer his magical umbrella, and makes a perfect counterpoint to the more reliable, rational Trot.
The Scarecrow Of Oz is also one of the several Baum – composed Oz titles that concerns itself with witches. One of the book’s three main antagonists, Blinkie, who, like the Wicked Witch in the first book, has but a single excellent eye, is a traditional European folklore witch: she is ancient, wrinkled, eccentric, power hungry, toadying, and mean. Fascinatingly, as in medieval drawings, Blinkie and her fellow witches ride their broomsticks with the brush part forwards. Baum even raises the possibility of witch burning, though, as terrible luck may have it, it is the easily consumed Scarecrow and not Blinkie that is eventually tied to a stake and threatened with fire. Baum counters Blinkie with Gibson Girl look – alike sorceress Glinda the Excellent, who, the opposite of the witch in every way, is lovingly described: “No one knows her age, but all can see who gorgeous and stately she is…her hair is like red gold and finer than the finest silken strands. Her eyes are blue as the sky and permanently frank and smiling. Her cheeks are the envy of peach-blows and her mouth is inviting as a rosebud. Glinda is tall and wears splendid gowns that trail behind her as she walks. She wears no jewels, for her beauty would bring shame on them.” Strangely enough, illustrator John R. Neill consistently describes Baum’s sorceress supreme wearing an unusual headdress conspicuously crowned with what looks like a cross between a healthy, long-stemmed, large-capped mushroom and a vigorous phallus.
Here more than in any of additional Oz title, the Scarecrow shines, as he rightly should, though the novel is more than half over before he makes his appearance. Baum tended to dilute even his most well loved characters over the course of the series, and in too many Baum titles the Scarecrow is depicted as small more than the Tin Woodman’s “heterosexual life partner,” though of course the Scarecrow bills and coos with the Patchwork Girl as well as with best friend Nick Chopper. The Scarecrow, sent by Glinda to rescue Trot and her allies from an evil king, is certainly the hero of the book: “As a vanquisher I’m a marvel,” he says before single – handedly but futilely demanding that King Krewl abdicate his ill-gotten throne. Happily, the sometimes Christ-like Scarecrow survives both burning at the stake and drowning in a waterfall, but not lacking the help of less overconfident friends.
Gorgeously illustrated in both color and black and white, the Scarecrow Of Oz is brilliant in every way and belongs at the very top of the multi – volume Oz heap.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
In this delightful tale, a young girl named Trot and her long-time friend, the one-legged sailor Cap’n Bill, are drawn into an adventure that takes them to the magical land of Oz. Readers who are familiar with the works of L. Frank Baum will admit these two characters from two previous novels that are set outside of Oz, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. While it is not necessary to have read these two works prior to reading this book, the three novels taken together outline the close relationship of this optimistic and courageous young girl and her pragmatic companion, the worldly retired sailor who lost his leg at sea.
The plot is familiar to readers of additional Oz books. Mortals from the outside world get hopelessly lost, but retaining their determination and excellent will, they go forwards until they find themselves in the fairy land of Oz. All along the way Trot and Cap’n Bill meet fantastic beings and explore weird countries which the leader makes with a joy and imagination that seem infinite. On this trip they meet and become quick friends with a weird flying creature called the Ork, who, although featherless, is equipped with a propeller as well as four wings. Together the three of them continue on to the Land of Mo where they inexplicably come across another beloved Baum character, Button-Bright, a boy who is unflappable and prone to getting lost. These four next find themselves in a remote and inaccessible confront of the land of Oz called Jinxland. Here they fall victim to the cruel plots of King Krewl and the magic spells of the witch Blinkie. Learning their plight, the Scarecrow of Oz decides to go to their rescue. But what can a man of straw do to fight a corrupt king and an evil witch? Find out for yourself and delight in every minute of it by reading this wonderful book.
The Books of Marvel edition has recreated the original first edition with all its twelve color plates, over 100 black and white illustrations, and a full color dust jacket by John R. Neill. It also includes a three page essay by Peter Glassman that discusses this work as it fits into the writings of the leader, L. Frank Baum. This is a must-read for Oz aficionados and a joy to anyone interested in children’s fiction.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5