Scarecrow of Oz (Watermill Classics) [Library Binding]

L. Frank Baum (Author)

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Series: Watermill Classics

Trot and Cap'n Bill are whisked to Oz by the flying Ork, find Button-Bright -- who's lost again -- and rescue the Scarecrow from cruel King Krewl in this ninth book of L. Brank Baum's immortal Oz series.

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Trot and Cap'n Bill are whisked to Oz by the flying Ork, find Button-Bright -- who's lost again -- and rescue the Scarecrow from cruel King Krewl in this ninth book of L. Brank Baum's immortal Oz series. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Watermill Pr (November 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816728968
• ISBN-13: 978-0816728961
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,763,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reproduction of the original, March 24, 1998

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Scott Love "honest gamer" (San Mateo, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Scarecrow of Oz (Books of Wonder Series) (Hardcover)

All the Books of Wonder Oz books are fantastic recreations of the originals with all their color plates and cover art. Even the typeface and page counts are the same. If you're a collector and can't afford to drop $300 on a beat-up copy of the original, this series is a must!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A "Scarecrow" book light on the "Scarecrow", November 26, 2003

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This review is from: Scarecrow of Oz (#9) (Mass Market Paperback)

In the pantheon of L. Frank Baum's brillian Oz series, I'm afraid I've got to mark this book down as just a so-so entry. It probably would have appealed to me more were it not for the grossly misleading title, "The Scarecrow of Oz." The titular character doesn't appear until about page 150 of a 260-page book, for starters, and while he certainly plays an important part in the events that follow, the book is not really about him at all. Instead it's the story of Trot and Cap'n Bill, two of Baum's non-Oz characters, being swept away to the land of Oz for the first time. For much of the book the story follows the formula of the most lackluster Oz books -- characters get lost in a magical fairy land and meet lots of strange and interesting creatures -- but it picks up when they enter Jinxland and are forced to face down King Krewl.

The plus for this book would be that I'm now more inclined to go back and read the two Trot and Cap'n Bill books that preceded this one. I do admire the way Baum laced his various characters together into a cohesive universe of his own, even if he was practically forced to by the demands of his young readers. I just wish he'd found a way to express what this book was really about a little better.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not one of the best in the series, January 17, 2009

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The Scarecrow of Oz was chiefly a way for Baum to introduce readers to another one of his book series (The Sea Fairies and Sky Island) to his more lucrative Oz readership. The story itself is a bit uneven, but is easily digested by younger readers as separate segments can be treated as stand-alone stories with a single unifying theme of moving Cap'n Bill and Trot from California to Oz.

Synopsis: Cap'n Bill and Trot (a relationship which probably would not find its way into modern kiddie lit) go for a recreational row and get caught in a whirlpool. The whirlpool transports them to a fairy land which they escape with the help of an orc (a magical flying creature, not the nasties in Tolkein) and some magical shrinking berries. They spend a little bit of time in the Land of Mo (another Oz series) before escaping once again with recurring character Button-Bright (from the Road to Oz), the help of some adventuresome birds and magical growing berries. They land in Jinxland, a semi-autonomous region within Oz, where they accidentally insert themselves into the nuptial politics of the local ruler, an elderly but wealthy courtesan, the daughter of a deposed king, and the son of another deposed king. The three characters are unable to do anything other than get into serious trouble with a local witch and are eventually bailed out by the combination of the Scarecrow's planning, a sudden re-appearance of the original orc with an army of his friends, and a bit of lucky timing. After restoring the king's daughter to her rightful throne and true love, they make their way back to the Emerald City where they meet everyone. The story abruptly ends at this point - the reader can assume Capn' Bill and Trot have found a home in Oz although the story's beginning did not make it seem as if Trot's family was either lost or worth leaving.