The Magical Monarch of Mo (Dover Children's Classics)
by L. Frank Baum
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Author: L. Frank BaumEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1968-06-01
ISBN: 0486218929
Number of pages: 237
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: An Amusing Collection of Short Stories by the Creator of OZ
Summary: 4 Stars
The 1899 publication of A NEW WONDERLAND was almost immediately routed by the 1900 publication of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ--and so L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) re-wrote the book, which was re-published in 1903 as THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO. The book has no central plot; it is instead a collection of short stories about the Land of Mo, where almost everything is edible.
Needless to say, The Monarch of Mo figures in many of these tales. His head is bitten off by a purple dragon, he is pushed down into a hole by a naughty son, and he is forced to sort out the truth of various claims on several occasions. But the stories also encompass his various sons and daughters, such as the ill-tempered Princess Pattycake, who is wooed by the commoner Timtom, and the beautiful Princess Truella, whose big toe is stolen by an evil wizard for use in a magic potion. Other characters include the wise donkey, the three foolish wise men, a vicious gigaboo, the clever Prince Thinkabit, and many others. It is all very imaginative and very charming in a period sort of way.
Baum's novels tend to bleed over into each other, and readers will enjoy encountering such characters as an iron man and a talking hen, both of which would undergo adaptation and emerge in OZ stories as Tik-Tok and Billina, but parents who wish to read the stories aloud to children should be slightly forewarned. In some respects Baum was a naive man, and he seemed to have a talent for turning a phrase he considered harmless but which startles others. In MO the faux pas occurs in Chapter Twelve, wherein Prince Zingle is wafted by kite to a monkey kingdom and locked up in a zoo. After some consideration a monkey professor announces "I shall write an article on the creature and claim he is a Homo, and without doubt the paper will create a stir in the scientific world." No doubt, indeed!
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