Baum moves enchantment to Chicago apartments and American towns: a girl left alone unlocks an old trunk full of Italian robbers, a glass dog guards a poor glass-blower’s door, a magician’s bonbons turn a shopper into an acrobat, and a boy lassoes Father Time and stops the world’s clocks. One tale, “The Laughing Hippopotamus”, draws its African characters in the caricature of 1901.
Wry, inventive tales from the year after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written for a new century of children. Download the free EPUB.