Button-Bright's ability to get lost actually turns out to be a key plot point. The Wizard gets some good problem-solving moments, and Scraps's sideways logic also comes in handy at times. As they go, even more join the group: the Frogman, Cayke the Cookie Cook, and the Lavender Bear.įor the most part, Baum does an okay job by this large cast of characters. Thankfully, she turns out to be in the Winkie Country, which is (wow what a coincidence) being search by the largest group, consisting of Dorothy, Trot, Betsy Bobbin, Button-Bright, the Wizard, Scraps the Patchwork Girl, the Cowardly Lion, the Woozy, the Sawhorse, and Toto. Without any actual leads, their plans are apparently to just wander around looking for stuff it seems to me that had Ozma been in the Gillikin Country, being searched by the Shaggy Man, his brother, Tik-Tok, and Jack Pumpkinhead, she might be lost still. They divide into four search parties, one for each of the four quadrants of Oz. and Ozma herself! Our characters must search the country without any of their customary powers at their disposal. The premise here is that overnight, a number of things vanish: Glinda's Great Book of Records, the magical tools of both Glinda and the Wizard, Ozma's Magic Picture, (in the far-off Yip Country) a Magic Dishpan. Sure, they showed up in those massive celebrations at the end of each book (by now a traditional way for Baum to squeeze in all your favorite characters) but I missed all those folks, you know? Baum must have felt the same way (or, rather, known his readers would) because Lost Princess of Oz contrives to include a large number of familiar characters. After the one-two punch of reading The Scarecrow of Oz and Rinkitink aloud to my three-year-old, I felt like I was missing the Oz characters.
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