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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fun romp and re-interpretation of Baum's classic world. Jasper Fizzle, in the running as the world's worst author, is obsessed with Oz and writing new Oz books. This puts him at odds with the official Oz society and his son, Frank, who loves his father; but wishes Jasper would be a little more practical. Jasper's chance discovery of the Silver Slippers starts a chain of events involving Frank's abduction to Oz, the Patchwork Girl, and an old enemy of Oz. Frank has to deal with both his father's obsession, the people of Oz, and his own conflicted feelings about his father. Like the original Oz books, a young adult book that can be appreciated by anyone young at heart who loves Oz. no reviews | add a review
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Frank Fizzle wishes his father would have just a single, original idea.Instead, Jasper Fizzle sees himself as the new "Royal Historian of OZ" as heinsists on writing new OZ stories. When the failed writer discovers that Ozreally exists, he makes an error in judgment that brands him a criminal in twoworlds. Frank may be doomed to pay for the "sins of the father" at the hands ofthe axe-wielding Tin-Man and the ghost of the Wicked Witch. Can Frank save theday and redeem the Fizzle family name, or will the drizzly ghost of the WickedWitch of the West destroy them all? This trade paperback collects all five issues of the Royal Historian ofOZ series, with plenty of extras and an introduction by EricShanower. No library descriptions found. |
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The plot is pretty thin, and it ends abruptly (again, not unlike Wonderland); most of the enjoyment of the book comes from stuff that will sail straight over most comic readers' heads to those of us who "get it" - and hopefully, don't mind being poked at a little. If nothing else, it's worth it for Andy Hirsch's highly original interpretations of the Oz characters; his Patchwork Girl is especially wonderful. Mind you, the one brief glimpse we get of a Kovac-drawn Oz looks like it would have been special, too - albeit in a different, more ethereal way. ( )