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The Road to Oz

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First published: 1909
Pages: 135

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Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) · 4 h 45 min · 24 parts

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The Way to Butterfield
20:14
Dorothy Meets Button-Bright
8:57
A Queer Village
15:17
King Dox
16:24
The Rainbow’s Daughter
9:09
The City of Beasts
10:29
The Shaggy Man’s Transformation
16:39
The Musicker
10:19
Facing the Scoodlers
10:08
Escaping the Soup Kettle
13:57
Johnny Dooit Does It
12:33
The Deadly Desert Crossed
6:02
The Truth Pond
8:46
Tik-Tok and Billina
12:41
The Emperor’s Tin Castle
8:50
Visiting the Pumpkin Field
7:18
The Royal Chariot Arrives
11:30
The Emerald City
10:55
The Shaggy Man’s Welcome
7:59
Princess Ozma of Oz
10:44
Dorothy Receives the Guests
14:11
Important Arrivals
15:22
The Grand Banquet
7:23
The Birthday Celebration
19:56

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The Road to Oz was published in 1909 and is the fifth book in the Oz sequence. Dorothy is back in Kansas, briefly, when she meets the Shaggy Man at the crossroads near her uncle's farm. They start walking down what looks like an ordinary country road and find themselves quickly out of Kansas and on the way to Oz. Along the way they pick up Button-Bright, a perpetually lost small boy, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter, who has slipped off her father's bow and cannot get home.

The book is more episodic than the earlier ones, mostly a series of countries the party walks through on the way to the Emerald City for Princess Ozma's birthday party. There is the city of Foxville, ruled by King Dox, where everyone has a fox's head. There is Dunkiton, where everyone is part donkey. The eventual arrival in the Emerald City for the birthday celebration brings in a remarkable number of crossover characters from Baum's other fantasy books, including Santa Claus from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, which is one of the strangest cameo choices in early children's fiction.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #485. The cover is an original BDeBooks design. The PDF has 135 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

About the author

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.